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Priory & Priory Cottage, Kilmacud
NAME The Demesne of Cottage/Priory & Priory Cottage
AREA LOCATION Upper Kilmacud Road, opposite St Raphael's School, now the site of Stillorgan
Wood and Stillorgan Heath.
MAP LOCATION OSI map of 1838-1845 place them in the townland of Kilmacud East and both are
annotated as Priory Cottage. By 1860 Priory is called Priory Cottage and the cottage
is unnamed. They appear to have been demolished by 1900. On Duncan 1821 and
Taylor 1816 it is named as Kilmacud Cottage.
GENERAL In 1847 Priory Kilmacud was described at a handsome villa residence and farm on
25 acres with outhouses and gardens. It had three reception rooms and five bedrooms. It had servants
apartments, a greenhouse and grapery. It also had a neat cottage (Priory Cottage) and gatelodge within
the grounds. It was described as 'adjoining Westbury' in 1858. On 26 acres in 1784 this may have been
known as the Demesne of Cottage or Gothick Cottage owned by Richard Thwaites.
YEAR BUILT circa 1805
VALUATION 14L for Priory Cottage & 126L for Priory in 1848
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, Registry of Deeds , Griffith's
Valuation, Thom's Directories and OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1784 - 1803 Richard Thwaites - Gothick Cottage/Demesne of Cottage
1825 'The Cottage' For Sale on 26 acres
1835 - 1854 William Flood - Priory
1846 - 1847 Stephen Mackey - Priory Cottage
1848 Vacant - Priory
1849 - 1854 Forde Leathley - Priory Cottage
1854 Sold to Dublin & Wicklow Railway - Priory Cottage
1854 Thomas Higginbotham - Priory
1855 - 1889 John Read Clarke - Priory
1889 Sold to Dublin & Wicklow Railway - Priory
STAFF
1849 Edward Kelly - Gatelodge
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE January 2021
AREA LOCATION Upper Kilmacud Road, opposite St Raphael's School, now the site of Stillorgan
Wood and Stillorgan Heath.
MAP LOCATION OSI map of 1838-1845 place them in the townland of Kilmacud East and both are
annotated as Priory Cottage. By 1860 Priory is called Priory Cottage and the cottage
is unnamed. They appear to have been demolished by 1900. On Duncan 1821 and
Taylor 1816 it is named as Kilmacud Cottage.
GENERAL In 1847 Priory Kilmacud was described at a handsome villa residence and farm on
25 acres with outhouses and gardens. It had three reception rooms and five bedrooms. It had servants
apartments, a greenhouse and grapery. It also had a neat cottage (Priory Cottage) and gatelodge within
the grounds. It was described as 'adjoining Westbury' in 1858. On 26 acres in 1784 this may have been
known as the Demesne of Cottage or Gothick Cottage owned by Richard Thwaites.
YEAR BUILT circa 1805
VALUATION 14L for Priory Cottage & 126L for Priory in 1848
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, Registry of Deeds , Griffith's
Valuation, Thom's Directories and OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1784 - 1803 Richard Thwaites - Gothick Cottage/Demesne of Cottage
1825 'The Cottage' For Sale on 26 acres
1835 - 1854 William Flood - Priory
1846 - 1847 Stephen Mackey - Priory Cottage
1848 Vacant - Priory
1849 - 1854 Forde Leathley - Priory Cottage
1854 Sold to Dublin & Wicklow Railway - Priory Cottage
1854 Thomas Higginbotham - Priory
1855 - 1889 John Read Clarke - Priory
1889 Sold to Dublin & Wicklow Railway - Priory
STAFF
1849 Edward Kelly - Gatelodge
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE January 2021