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Rockville
NAME Rockville/Rockville Lodge
AREA LOCATION Dundrum, Sandyford Road (opposite Town Centre Square)
GENERAL A two storey five bedroom house with gatelodge (originally shared with
Herbert Hill), coach house, stable and paddock, orchard, tennis & croquet lawn. The house was
leased from John Adye Curran on 3 acres in 1850 and in 1923 it still sat on 3 acres. In 1867 it is
described as having a neat gate entrance and lodge to the Enniskerry Road, lawns, pleasure
garden with two fields. It had various outbuilding with a coach house, stables, kitchen garden
and fruit garden. It appears to have been split into two separate accommodations in the 1920's
and by the 1960's, it was in flats.
YEAR BUILT circa 1844
VALUATION In 1896 the valuation was 48 pounds
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, OSI maps Registry
of Deeds and NAI Census & Wills.
OCCUPANTS
1844 Lease
1850 -1867 William James Egan
1871 Samuel Collins
1878 - 1882 Thomas Pollen
1887 Walter Stewart
1887 House for Sale
1887 - 1888 James P Kennedy of 88 Amiens Street
1888 - 1892 Richard James Mecredy
1893 House for Sale
1894 Willoughby James Hamilton
1894 - 1897 William Deverell
1899 John D Wallis (owner)
1901 - 1925 John Cecil Nolan-Ferrall
1920 - 1936 Lawrence Casey
1925 - 1936 Smyth family
1930 Some land sold off for development.
1940 - 1942 Patrick Aloysius Rogan
1945 - 1962 George Caulfield
In flats
2008 Application to demolish
STAFF
1875 John Williams - Gardener
1882 Sarah Davis
1911 Kate Mary O'Brien - Cook
Anne Geraghty - House parlour maid.
CURRENT
STATUS
CONTRIBUTORS © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE November 2017
AREA LOCATION Dundrum, Sandyford Road (opposite Town Centre Square)
GENERAL A two storey five bedroom house with gatelodge (originally shared with
Herbert Hill), coach house, stable and paddock, orchard, tennis & croquet lawn. The house was
leased from John Adye Curran on 3 acres in 1850 and in 1923 it still sat on 3 acres. In 1867 it is
described as having a neat gate entrance and lodge to the Enniskerry Road, lawns, pleasure
garden with two fields. It had various outbuilding with a coach house, stables, kitchen garden
and fruit garden. It appears to have been split into two separate accommodations in the 1920's
and by the 1960's, it was in flats.
YEAR BUILT circa 1844
VALUATION In 1896 the valuation was 48 pounds
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, OSI maps Registry
of Deeds and NAI Census & Wills.
OCCUPANTS
1844 Lease
1850 -1867 William James Egan
1871 Samuel Collins
1878 - 1882 Thomas Pollen
1887 Walter Stewart
1887 House for Sale
1887 - 1888 James P Kennedy of 88 Amiens Street
1888 - 1892 Richard James Mecredy
1893 House for Sale
1894 Willoughby James Hamilton
1894 - 1897 William Deverell
1899 John D Wallis (owner)
1901 - 1925 John Cecil Nolan-Ferrall
1920 - 1936 Lawrence Casey
1925 - 1936 Smyth family
1930 Some land sold off for development.
1940 - 1942 Patrick Aloysius Rogan
1945 - 1962 George Caulfield
In flats
2008 Application to demolish
STAFF
1875 John Williams - Gardener
1882 Sarah Davis
1911 Kate Mary O'Brien - Cook
Anne Geraghty - House parlour maid.
CURRENT
STATUS
CONTRIBUTORS © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE November 2017