Talbot House
NAME Talbot House
AREA LOCATION Mount Merrion Avenue on site of Ashurst Filling station.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Merrion and it is
annotated as Talbot House on both maps.
GENERAL Regency Style House
YEAR BUILT AND
VALUATION circa 1845
Valuation The rateable valuation in 1900 was £36. The 1901 census
describes it as having 9 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom's Directories, OSI Maps & contemporaneous newspapers.
OCCUPANTS
1842 Capt William Osborne
1845 William Talbot Molloy
1851 - 1869 W Sitwell Byrne
1870 Vacant
1871 - 1876 The Misses Sirree
1877 Vacant
1878 - 1883 Corneilius Mannin
1888 To Let
1890 - 1892 William Johnson Sollas, Prof of Geology, UCD
1893 - 1897 John Boyd Dunlop
1898 - 1900 Rev Canon Robert William Whelan
1910 - 1912 Rev William Richard Dalton
1914 Walter R Dalton
1921 - 1940 Mrs Bennett
1961 Miss Norah M Bennett
1997 For sale
STAFF
1911 Marion Keogh - Housemaid
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR June Bow, Karen Poff & Des Smith
DATE March 2018
AREA LOCATION Mount Merrion Avenue on site of Ashurst Filling station.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Merrion and it is
annotated as Talbot House on both maps.
GENERAL Regency Style House
YEAR BUILT AND
VALUATION circa 1845
Valuation The rateable valuation in 1900 was £36. The 1901 census
describes it as having 9 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom's Directories, OSI Maps & contemporaneous newspapers.
OCCUPANTS
1842 Capt William Osborne
1845 William Talbot Molloy
1851 - 1869 W Sitwell Byrne
1870 Vacant
1871 - 1876 The Misses Sirree
1877 Vacant
1878 - 1883 Corneilius Mannin
1888 To Let
1890 - 1892 William Johnson Sollas, Prof of Geology, UCD
1893 - 1897 John Boyd Dunlop
1898 - 1900 Rev Canon Robert William Whelan
1910 - 1912 Rev William Richard Dalton
1914 Walter R Dalton
1921 - 1940 Mrs Bennett
1961 Miss Norah M Bennett
1997 For sale
STAFF
1911 Marion Keogh - Housemaid
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR June Bow, Karen Poff & Des Smith
DATE March 2018