Rosemount, Roebuck (UCD)
NAME Rosemount House
AREA LOCATION UCD Campus
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Roebuck and it is
annotated as Rosemount on both.
GENERAL Rosemount was the seat of the Corballis family and their descendants for almost 200
years. Rosemount was a three bay two storey house with curved bow return on 17 acres in 1849. The house
was lived in by the Corballis family from 1793 until 1931 and rented out for various seasons. Stephen Woulfe
Flanagan, a nephew of the last Corballis to live here inherited the house in 1931.
'On this holding there is a dwelling house two stories high consisting of parlour, drawing room and breakfast
parlour, five bed chambers, basement story containing kitchen and servants apartments, stabling for eight horses,
coach houses and a walled garden with ornamental planting and pleasure ground the entire neat and in most
perfect order.’ (Brassington 1832)
YEAR BUILT Circa 1793
VALUATION In 1884 the valuation was 120L
NUMBER OF
ROOMS 16 Rooms occupied by family in 1911
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, Registry of Deeds , Griffith's
Valuation, Thom's Directories and OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1780 Mr Williams
1780 - 1805 John Corballis
1805 - 1839 Richard Corballis
1839 - 1841 James Dillon Meldon
1841 -1845 Deborah Corballis
1847 - 1879 John Richard Corballis QC
1880 - 1931 Richard John Corballis
1931 - 1940 Stephen Woulfe Flanagan - owner
1940 - 1981 Hubert Woulfe Flanagan - owner
1982 Acquired by UCD and demolished
STAFF
1863 - 1878 Mr Kane - Gardener
1899 - 1901 Patrick Tobin - Gardener living at gatelodge
1901 - 1911 Luke O'Neill - Man servant
1901 - 1911 Christina O'Neill - Cook/Housekeeper
1911 Michael O'Neill - Apprentice gardener
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE February 2021
AREA LOCATION UCD Campus
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Roebuck and it is
annotated as Rosemount on both.
GENERAL Rosemount was the seat of the Corballis family and their descendants for almost 200
years. Rosemount was a three bay two storey house with curved bow return on 17 acres in 1849. The house
was lived in by the Corballis family from 1793 until 1931 and rented out for various seasons. Stephen Woulfe
Flanagan, a nephew of the last Corballis to live here inherited the house in 1931.
'On this holding there is a dwelling house two stories high consisting of parlour, drawing room and breakfast
parlour, five bed chambers, basement story containing kitchen and servants apartments, stabling for eight horses,
coach houses and a walled garden with ornamental planting and pleasure ground the entire neat and in most
perfect order.’ (Brassington 1832)
YEAR BUILT Circa 1793
VALUATION In 1884 the valuation was 120L
NUMBER OF
ROOMS 16 Rooms occupied by family in 1911
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, Registry of Deeds , Griffith's
Valuation, Thom's Directories and OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1780 Mr Williams
1780 - 1805 John Corballis
1805 - 1839 Richard Corballis
1839 - 1841 James Dillon Meldon
1841 -1845 Deborah Corballis
1847 - 1879 John Richard Corballis QC
1880 - 1931 Richard John Corballis
1931 - 1940 Stephen Woulfe Flanagan - owner
1940 - 1981 Hubert Woulfe Flanagan - owner
1982 Acquired by UCD and demolished
STAFF
1863 - 1878 Mr Kane - Gardener
1899 - 1901 Patrick Tobin - Gardener living at gatelodge
1901 - 1911 Luke O'Neill - Man servant
1901 - 1911 Christina O'Neill - Cook/Housekeeper
1911 Michael O'Neill - Apprentice gardener
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE February 2021