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Roebuck Lodge                  

NAME                            Roebuck Lodge/Cottage/The Cottage                                    

AREA LOCATION         Corner of Clonskeagh Road and Belfield Close
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MAP LOCATION          OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Roebuck
                                        and it is annotated as Roebuck Lodge and The Cottage respectively.
                                     
GENERAL                    In 1783 the house was leased by the representative of Higgins to Rt Hon Lord
Chetwynd including an office, yard and garden on a small parcel of land.  This was an old dwelling
house on the side of the road, close to the bridge of Clonskeagh.  In the 1830s it was remodelled
in the castellated style.  ‘It consists of parlour, drawing room and three small bed chambers with
kitchen and servants apartments, a neat walled garden, stabling for three horses an coach
house.’ (Brassington 1832).  The name ​was changed to Cottage by 1849.  There were two other
Roebuck Lodges in the late 18th, early 19th century (one 'at the head of Foster's Avenue' and the
other on what is known as the Irish Glass Bottle site), so the above description may refer to
these either.  This six bedroom non basement house was for sale on an acre in 1947.

YEAR BUILT                  circa 1770     
 
VALUATION                 In 1868 the valuation was 46 pounds and in the 1901 census it is noted as
​                                        having 10 rooms occupied by family.
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ARCHITECT                   Unknown           
 
SOURCES                       Thom's, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, OSI Maps, South
                                        Dublin Historical Mapping.
  
OCCUPANTS
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1839                               General Haynes
1840 - 1843                   Rev Richard Burton
1844 - 1846                   Rev Edward Day
1847 - 1848                   Joseph Conroy
1849 -  1877                  Maria Corballis                
1878                               To let for 9 years
1879                               Isaac Butt (death)                                             
1879                               Thomas Colquhoun (married to Elizabeth Butt - daughter of Isaac)
1885                               The Misses Colquhoun
1887                               Edward Holland
1895                               Mrs Bailey
1898 - 1943                   Maurice Pitman
1945 - 1947                   Terence De Vere White
1949                               Mrs Lucy M Jeffares
1950 - 1989                   Stanley Morgan Huet

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STAFF
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CURRENT
STATUS                         Extant and in private ownership


Occupants of Roebuck Lodge (site of Glass Bottle factory)  11.5 acres

1816 - 1827                  Humphry Minchin
1832 - 1846                  John G Hyndman
​1848                              Caroline Richards
1849                              For Sale 
1851 - 1858                  James Digges La Touche
1860                              Frederick  Charles Cross
1864                              William Kavanagh
1870                              Henry William Murphy
1891                              Samuel Benner
1903 - 1951                  George Alexander Thompson
1951 - 1957                  Thompson family

Occupants of Roebuck Lodge on Fosters Avenue Later called Roebuck Cottage

1805 - 1806                 Isaac Dejoncourt
1808                             For Sale


CONTRIBUTOR          ©​ June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE                             November 2019