Rock Hill House - Photo from the Blackrock Market website.

Rockville (Garda Station) at end of lane. Jack O'Rourke's Pub to the RHS.

Rock Hill House & Rockville              

NAME                           Rock Hill House now Blackrock Market & Rockville (Garda Station) 

AREA LOCATION        Off main street Blackrock now numbers 19a and 15a 
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MAP LOCATION         OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Blackrock
                                       but neither are annotated.
                                     
GENERAL                     These houses date from around 1788.  Rock Hill House was originally a hotel
and tavern and Rockville became the DPM station and later the Garda Station.  Both were once
part of the street frontage of Blackrock village before houses/shops were built in front of them in
the 1830s.  Rock Hill House and Rockville is a semi detached Georgian building comprising of 2 x
six bay two storey town houses.  Each has a cut granite doorcase approached by seven granite 
steps.  In 1869 Rock Hill House contained 12 rooms, coach house, stable and good ​garden. 

YEAR BUILT                   circa 1788   
 
VALUATION                  In the 1911 census it is noted as Rock Hill House had 8 rooms in the
                                         of family and in 1893 had a valuation was 15L.
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ARCHITECT                    Unknown           
 
SOURCES                       Thom's, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, OSI Maps, South
                                         Dublin Historical Mapping.

Occupants of Rock Hill House

​1857 - 1862                    Thomas Hogan
1862 - 1869                    Thomas and Sarah Jane Owens (Lease for sale in 1869) see birth of son in 1867 and death of wife (hogan) in 1868
1870 - 1876                    Mrs Field
1874                                In use as a Boarding house with rooms to rent for public functions
1876                                Mrs Mary Poland (rip)
1877 - 1881                    Mrs Casserly
1885 - 1890                    Thomas Lowth
1892 - 1899                    Robert Sterling, Dentist (child born 1892)
1896                                Mrs Egan
1902 - 1930                    John Butler - Master Bootmaker 
1911 - 1944                    Jane Stotesbury 
1986 todate                   Blackrock Market opened on 5 Dec 1986 (Nicholas Roche owner)
1998                                Fire at Blackrock Market in November - suspected arson
  
Occupants of Rockville
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1840 - 1925                    Dublin Metropolitan Police (No 26 in 1849, No 8 in 1897)
1897 - 1900                    Sgt Fogarty in Charge his address given as Rock Hill House
​1901                                Sgt Philip Courtney in charge
1911                                Sgt Michael Walsh in charge
1925 - 1997                    An Garda Siochana
1994                                Contract given to Glenstar.  New Garda station opens 13 Dec 1995.
1998                                Old Garda Station vacant and refurbished by the Eastern Regional Fisheries Board
1998 - 2015                    Eastern Regional Fisheries Board (15a) 
2026                                Office Pods (15a)        

CURRENT
STATUS                           Both are extant

CONTRIBUTOR             ©​ June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE                               November 2019