View of Dublin Bay and Harbour, Hill of Howth, Ireland's Eye and Lambay Isand, from Stillorgan - John Henry Campbell

Seafield

NAME                        Seafield


AREA LOCATION     Mountbrook, Stillorgan dual carriage way (N11) Midway between
                                    Foster's Avenue and Nutley Lane.
 
MAP LOCATION      OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
                                    Mount Merrion or Callary and it is annotated as Seafield on both.  It is on
                                    Duncan's 1821 map and Taylors map of 1816 annotated as Seafield. 

GENERAL                  It was for sale in 1836 on 25 acres, described as a four reception, six
bedroom house with a billiard room, stabling for ten horses.  It had coach houses, store
rooms, a dairy and a laundry.     
  
YEAR BUILT              1780
 
VALUATION             No valuation found, in 1901 it had 17 rooms occupied by family.    
 
ARCHITECT               Unknown

SOURCES                  Thom’s directories, OSI maps, NAI Census & Wills, Registry of
                                    Deeds and contemporaneous newspapers.
  
OCCUPANTS
1829 - 1845                Thomas Beasley
1836                            For Sale
1858 - 1873                Thomas Crozier
1873 - 1878                William Hardy
1879 - 1891                Frederick Hardy
1892 - 1899                Mrs Mary Hardy
1899 - 1910                William Hardy
1911 - 1913                Durham Matthews
1914 - 1915                Edward White, Solicitor & Commissioner of Irish Lights
​1937                            Irish Homes (Ireland) Ltd
1949                            Proposed development of terraced and semi-detached houses and semi-detached bungalows.
1996                            Mountbrook built 
                               
STAFF
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​1863                             Mr Nugent - Gardener
1873                             Margaret Clery - Parlourmaid (mentioned in Crozier Will)
                                      Bridget Rourke - Housemaid (mentioned in Crozier Will)
1877                             Thomas Telford - Gardener
1901                             Bridget Glyn - Housemaid
                                      Mary Foley - Kitchenmaid
                                      Kate Hamilton - Parlourmaid
1911                             Fanny Tierney - Upper Housemaid
                                      Agnes Ardagh - Lower Housemaid
                                      Edward Mason - Gardener/Handyman
                                      Edward Sams - living on site
                                      Frederick G Everett - living on site
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CURRENT            
STATUS                       No longer extant

CONTRIBUTOR         ©​ June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE                            April 2018