Rockville
NAME Rockville/Rockville Lodge
AREA LOCATION Dundrum, Sandyford Road (opposite Town Centre Square)
GENERAL A two storey five bedroom house with gatelodge (shared with Herbert Hill),
coach house, stable and paddock, orchard, tennis & croquet lawn. House leased From John
Adye Curran on 3 acres in 1850. In 1923 it still sat on 3 acres. The house appears to have been split in the 1920's.
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 Thomas Pollen
1887 Walter Stewart
1887 House for Sale
1887 - 1888 James P Kennedy of 88 Amiens Street
1889 - 1892 Mr R J McCredy of 49 Abbey Street
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 - 1932 Patrick Smyth/Peter Smyth
1930 Some land sold off for development.
1930 - 1936 Mr D J Smyth, Dundrum Kennels, Rockville, Dundrum
1940 - 1942 Patrick Aloysius Rogan, Veterinary Surgeon
1945 - 1962 George Caulfield, Seed Merchant of Dame Street
Demolished
STAFF
1875 John Williams - Gardener
1911 Kate Mary O'Brien - Cook
Anne Geraghty - House parlour maid.
CURRENT
STATUS House no longer extant, but gatelodge survives (2017).
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 (shared with Herbert Hill),
coach house, stable and paddock, orchard, tennis & croquet lawn. House leased From John
Adye Curran on 3 acres in 1850. In 1923 it still sat on 3 acres. The house appears to have been split in the 1920's.
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 Thomas Pollen
1887 Walter Stewart
1887 House for Sale
1887 - 1888 James P Kennedy of 88 Amiens Street
1889 - 1892 Mr R J McCredy of 49 Abbey Street
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 - 1932 Patrick Smyth/Peter Smyth
1930 Some land sold off for development.
1930 - 1936 Mr D J Smyth, Dundrum Kennels, Rockville, Dundrum
1940 - 1942 Patrick Aloysius Rogan, Veterinary Surgeon
1945 - 1962 George Caulfield, Seed Merchant of Dame Street
Demolished
STAFF
1875 John Williams - Gardener
1911 Kate Mary O'Brien - Cook
Anne Geraghty - House parlour maid.
CURRENT
STATUS House no longer extant, but gatelodge survives (2017).
CONTRIBUTORS © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE November 2017