Rockfield House - Dundrum
NAME Rockfield House and Rockfield Cottage
AREA LOCATION Overend Way, off Sandyford Road, Dundrum now the site of Rockfield
Central.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Drummartin and it is annotated as Rockfield House on both. The site also
included Rockfield Cottage.
GENERAL In 1838 when it was for let, it was described at on the high road to Enniskerry
(later Sandyford Road) as a commodious house above Dundrum commanding a splendid mountain
view. It was on 4.5 acres and had a river running through the grounds. It had three sitting rooms,
seven bedrooms and a water closet. It had stabling and a coach house in an enclosed yard.
YEAR BUILT 1775
VALUATION The valuation in 1866 was £48 and was the same in 1901.
Number of
Rooms In the 1911 census it is noted as having 12 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills
Griffith's Valuation and OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1838 -1840 To let/for sale on 4.5 acres with gatelodge
1840 John Daniel Fyan
1842 William Keough RIP of Rockfield Dundrum and Kilkenny
1843 Jane Randall
1843 John MacNamara
1843 - 1846 Hugh Carlile, MD
1846 - 1847 Henry Troy
1848 - 1866 John Rose Byrne
1848 - 1887 James Rose Byrne
1848 - 1889 Esther Rose Byrne
1896 Alexander Steward Newcomen
1897 - 1901 John Dowker Rowan Kidd
1907 - 1923 Reginald William Scully
1925 - 1932 John Thomas Culleton
1935 Vacant
1940 - 1942 Arthur Whitney
1942 - 1950 Eveleen Whitney
1952 Sold
1959 Jacqueline Hester Deschamps
1959 - 1961 Noel Deschamps
1980s Dr Neil Murray, horticulturalist
1996 - 1997 Application by Gannon homes for 150 apartments
2000 Application to demolish Rockfield House and outbuildings, Riversdale House
and outbuildings, Rockfield Cottage and Westbrook Lodge by Gannon Homes.
STAFF
1841 Anne Eliza Keogh (BMD)
1884 James Daly (see birth of child)
1894 Margaret Daly
1911 Elizabeth Coffee - Parlourmaid
Elizabeth Halahan - Cook
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE January 2020
AREA LOCATION Overend Way, off Sandyford Road, Dundrum now the site of Rockfield
Central.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Drummartin and it is annotated as Rockfield House on both. The site also
included Rockfield Cottage.
GENERAL In 1838 when it was for let, it was described at on the high road to Enniskerry
(later Sandyford Road) as a commodious house above Dundrum commanding a splendid mountain
view. It was on 4.5 acres and had a river running through the grounds. It had three sitting rooms,
seven bedrooms and a water closet. It had stabling and a coach house in an enclosed yard.
YEAR BUILT 1775
VALUATION The valuation in 1866 was £48 and was the same in 1901.
Number of
Rooms In the 1911 census it is noted as having 12 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills
Griffith's Valuation and OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1838 -1840 To let/for sale on 4.5 acres with gatelodge
1840 John Daniel Fyan
1842 William Keough RIP of Rockfield Dundrum and Kilkenny
1843 Jane Randall
1843 John MacNamara
1843 - 1846 Hugh Carlile, MD
1846 - 1847 Henry Troy
1848 - 1866 John Rose Byrne
1848 - 1887 James Rose Byrne
1848 - 1889 Esther Rose Byrne
1896 Alexander Steward Newcomen
1897 - 1901 John Dowker Rowan Kidd
1907 - 1923 Reginald William Scully
1925 - 1932 John Thomas Culleton
1935 Vacant
1940 - 1942 Arthur Whitney
1942 - 1950 Eveleen Whitney
1952 Sold
1959 Jacqueline Hester Deschamps
1959 - 1961 Noel Deschamps
1980s Dr Neil Murray, horticulturalist
1996 - 1997 Application by Gannon homes for 150 apartments
2000 Application to demolish Rockfield House and outbuildings, Riversdale House
and outbuildings, Rockfield Cottage and Westbrook Lodge by Gannon Homes.
STAFF
1841 Anne Eliza Keogh (BMD)
1884 James Daly (see birth of child)
1894 Margaret Daly
1911 Elizabeth Coffee - Parlourmaid
Elizabeth Halahan - Cook
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE January 2020