Seapoint Manor
NAME Castle Byrne/Seapoint Manor - Work in Progress
AREA LOCATION Corner of Seapoint Avenue and Newtown Avenue.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Seapoint
Temple Hill and it is annotated as Castle Byrne and Seapoint Manor respectively.
GENERAL Described as a house with private seashore adjoining Sir Harcourt Lee's house
with two sets of stables and coach house and the land extending as far as Seapoint House in 1813.
It was on 2 acres in 1880 but this had slipped to 1.5 Acres in 1919. In 1900 it was for sale and
described as a 'Large Handsome house with 7 Bedrooms, a conservatory, greenhouse and gardeners
cottage, known as Tobernea cottage'. It was originally part of the Seapoint House Hotel Complex
which stretched from Blackrock House to The Point. It is thought that this is the site of the long
demolished Newtown Castle and would have been Byrne territory from the late 17th century.
YEAR BUILT 1810
VALUATION The valuation in 1878 was 76L
Number of
Rooms In the 1901 census it is noted as having 30 rooms.
ARCHITECT
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills
and OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1819 Castle Byrne Boarding House
1839 - 1841 Castle Byrne Boarding School - Principal - Julia Jacob
1842 - 1862 Rented for the Summer season
1863 - 1865 James Howard
1866 - 1870 William James Howard
1871 Arthur Jones
1877 - 1878 William J Burnside
1880 For Sale
1880 - 1886 Edward De Selvier
1886 For Sale
1889 - 1891 Mrs A E Smith
1900 For Sale
1905 William J Chetwode Crawley
1906 For Sale
1919 - 1920 For Sale on 1.5 acres suitable for 20 houses to be built
1920 Éamon De Valera
1928 - 1935 Miss K Meeney
1938 Edward Crolly
1940 - 1960 Lawrence Meeney
STAFF
CURRENT
STATUS Extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE January 2020
AREA LOCATION Corner of Seapoint Avenue and Newtown Avenue.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Seapoint
Temple Hill and it is annotated as Castle Byrne and Seapoint Manor respectively.
GENERAL Described as a house with private seashore adjoining Sir Harcourt Lee's house
with two sets of stables and coach house and the land extending as far as Seapoint House in 1813.
It was on 2 acres in 1880 but this had slipped to 1.5 Acres in 1919. In 1900 it was for sale and
described as a 'Large Handsome house with 7 Bedrooms, a conservatory, greenhouse and gardeners
cottage, known as Tobernea cottage'. It was originally part of the Seapoint House Hotel Complex
which stretched from Blackrock House to The Point. It is thought that this is the site of the long
demolished Newtown Castle and would have been Byrne territory from the late 17th century.
YEAR BUILT 1810
VALUATION The valuation in 1878 was 76L
Number of
Rooms In the 1901 census it is noted as having 30 rooms.
ARCHITECT
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills
and OSI Maps.
OCCUPANTS
1819 Castle Byrne Boarding House
1839 - 1841 Castle Byrne Boarding School - Principal - Julia Jacob
1842 - 1862 Rented for the Summer season
1863 - 1865 James Howard
1866 - 1870 William James Howard
1871 Arthur Jones
1877 - 1878 William J Burnside
1880 For Sale
1880 - 1886 Edward De Selvier
1886 For Sale
1889 - 1891 Mrs A E Smith
1900 For Sale
1905 William J Chetwode Crawley
1906 For Sale
1919 - 1920 For Sale on 1.5 acres suitable for 20 houses to be built
1920 Éamon De Valera
1928 - 1935 Miss K Meeney
1938 Edward Crolly
1940 - 1960 Lawrence Meeney
STAFF
CURRENT
STATUS Extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE January 2020