Photograph of Taunus 1948 - Courtesy of Rodrigo D Elsner

                                                                                Taunus

NAME                             Palermo/Taunus

AREA LOCATION         Leopardstown Road

MAP LOCATION          OSI maps of 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Galloping Green South.
 
GENERAL                      A detached two storey three bay house with large rooms and frontage of 240'
to the Leopardstown Road.  It started life as Palermo and was used initially as an overflow for the
Foxrock Hotel.  The dining room was 18' x 15' and the sitting room was 20' x 16'.  It had a front and
aside bay window and a simple central door topped by a semi elliptical overlight typical of houses
built on the Foxrock estate.  It had a pitched slightly overhanging slate roof with bracketed eves.

YEAR BUILT                  circa 1861

VALUATION                 In 1888 the valuation was 30 pounds.

NUMBER OF
ROOMS                         In the 1901 census it is noted as having 8 rooms occupied by family.

ARCHITECT                  Unknown, part of the Foxrock Estate of William Wellington Bentley
 
SOURCES                     Thom’s directories, contemporaneous Newspapers, OSI Maps and NAI
                                       Census & Wills, 
  
OCCUPANTS

1861 - 1863                 Part of the Foxrock Tourist Hotel owned By William W Bentley
1863 - 1884                 Herr Frederick William Elsner
1884 - 1913                 Mrs Elsner
1913 - 1933                 Misses Elsner & Mrs Stewart nee Elsner
1935 - 1950                 Miss Ida Elsner
1951                             For Sale
1954 - 1956                 Ronan O'Hara
1987                             For Sale quoting 160K
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​STAFF

1901                              Elizabeth Sullivan - General Servant
1911                              Margaret Geigh - Servant

​CURRENT
STATUS                         Extant 

CONTRIBUTOR           © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE                              June 2020