NAME ROCKLAND/ROCKLANDS
AREA LOCATION STILLORGAN, off the Leopardstown road and adjacent to Central Park Luas stop.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Carmanhall and it is annotated as Rockland and Rocklands respectively.
GENERAL A substantial house built by Richard Burton. The entrance was via a gate lodge on the Leopardstown Road opposite Burton Hall, the home of his brother Samuel. The house was noted as adjoining Mr Cootes property (Charles Henry Coote, MP living at Leopardstown Park House).
The house was probably rebuilt in the early 1800's as in 1802 it was advertised for let as " The house is new and roomy, the gardens walled in and planted with the best fruit trees and cropped for the winter". In 1819 it was advertised again for let as a demesne surrounded by an eight foot wall enclosed by iron gates with three gardens, separately enclosed by a 14 feet wall with green-house stoves, grapery and peach houses. Captain Ellis was beaten up when the house was broken into in April 1817.
In 1861 the Landed Estates Courts ordered the selling of Carmans-hall which included Rocklands and Burton Hall. John Henry Dunne went bankrupt in 1866 and the house was put on the market again. In 1876 Edward Ellis Mayne is listed as the owner of Rocklands - He owned over 467 acres valued at 708 pounds and on 25 Jul 1882, a lease of Rocklands to William E Perrin is given.
When purchased by Agnes Ryan of the Monument creameries in 1943 it was on 25 acres and in a dilapidated state.
YEAR BUILT circa 1731
VALUATION In 1921 the valuation was 109 pounds and in the 1901 census it is noted
as having 11 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, OSI Maps & NAI Census
OCCUPANTS
1731 Samuel Burton
Richard Burton
1785 - 1794 Robert Burton
1794 - 1820 Captain Edward Ellis
1824 - 1866 John Henry Dunne, bankrupt 1866
1869 - 1922 William Edwards Perrin
1930 Vacant
1935 John Fennessey
1939 - 1940 Vacant
1943 Agnes Ryan
Demolished
STAFF
1901 Maria Hurley - Cook
Kate Magrath - Housemaid
Peter Neville - Gardener
1901 Edward Hayden - Gardener/General man living on site.
1911 Margaret Deering - Cook
Mary Coffee - Housemaid
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE April 2017
AREA LOCATION STILLORGAN, off the Leopardstown road and adjacent to Central Park Luas stop.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Carmanhall and it is annotated as Rockland and Rocklands respectively.
GENERAL A substantial house built by Richard Burton. The entrance was via a gate lodge on the Leopardstown Road opposite Burton Hall, the home of his brother Samuel. The house was noted as adjoining Mr Cootes property (Charles Henry Coote, MP living at Leopardstown Park House).
The house was probably rebuilt in the early 1800's as in 1802 it was advertised for let as " The house is new and roomy, the gardens walled in and planted with the best fruit trees and cropped for the winter". In 1819 it was advertised again for let as a demesne surrounded by an eight foot wall enclosed by iron gates with three gardens, separately enclosed by a 14 feet wall with green-house stoves, grapery and peach houses. Captain Ellis was beaten up when the house was broken into in April 1817.
In 1861 the Landed Estates Courts ordered the selling of Carmans-hall which included Rocklands and Burton Hall. John Henry Dunne went bankrupt in 1866 and the house was put on the market again. In 1876 Edward Ellis Mayne is listed as the owner of Rocklands - He owned over 467 acres valued at 708 pounds and on 25 Jul 1882, a lease of Rocklands to William E Perrin is given.
When purchased by Agnes Ryan of the Monument creameries in 1943 it was on 25 acres and in a dilapidated state.
YEAR BUILT circa 1731
VALUATION In 1921 the valuation was 109 pounds and in the 1901 census it is noted
as having 11 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, OSI Maps & NAI Census
OCCUPANTS
1731 Samuel Burton
Richard Burton
1785 - 1794 Robert Burton
1794 - 1820 Captain Edward Ellis
1824 - 1866 John Henry Dunne, bankrupt 1866
1869 - 1922 William Edwards Perrin
1930 Vacant
1935 John Fennessey
1939 - 1940 Vacant
1943 Agnes Ryan
Demolished
STAFF
1901 Maria Hurley - Cook
Kate Magrath - Housemaid
Peter Neville - Gardener
1901 Edward Hayden - Gardener/General man living on site.
1911 Margaret Deering - Cook
Mary Coffee - Housemaid
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE April 2017