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Pranstown House
NAME Temora/Pranstown House
AREA LOCATION Top of Booterstown Avenue
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Merrion
and it is annotated as Temora on both.
GENERAL Described as an non basement house on 6 acres with 5 Bedrooms when put up
for sale in 1883. It had a short carriage drive and a gatelodge. It was on 1.5 acres in 1934/5 when
it was put up for sale. The name of the house was changed from Temora, (another word for Tara -
the seat of the high kings of Ireland) to Pranstown House in the 1950's. Irish Nationwide purchased
the site in in the 1980's and Booterstown Wood apartments were built circa 2007.
YEAR BUILT circa 1830
VALUATION In 1887 the valuation was 62 pounds and in the 1911 census it is noted as
having 11 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, Griffith's Valuation,
OSI Maps, Thom's, and South Dublin Historical Mapping.
OCCUPANTS
1847 - 1851 Richard Purdy
1862 - 1863 Edward Chapman
1865 - 1868 Charles Michael Coyne
1870 - 1871 John Quinlan
1875 - 1882 Mrs Kavanagh
1884 - 1894 Kavanagh/Kennedy Family
1904 - 1918 Lieut Col Henry Plews
1923 - 1925 Ernest Robert Jordison
1928 - 1934 William Holden
1934 - 1935 For sale on 1.5 acres
1936 - 1943 Dr Charles J O'Reilly
1944 For Sale
1952 - 1955 Hon Col Edward Plantagenet Joseph Corbally Stourton
1956 - 1959 Dr Petrus Albertus Kasteel
1965 - Roman Catholic Church: Press Office/Veritas Publications
(Radharc/Trocaire communications centre, Council for Social Welfare )
STAFF
1849 Andrew Corrigan - Gateporter
1876 John Brophy - Gardener
1911 Catherine Cook - Domestic Servant
George Zinkant - Chauffeur
Tereza Duffy - Cook
Julia Kiely - Parlour maid
1943 - 1959 Tighe family - living at gatelodge
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE January 2020
AREA LOCATION Top of Booterstown Avenue
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Merrion
and it is annotated as Temora on both.
GENERAL Described as an non basement house on 6 acres with 5 Bedrooms when put up
for sale in 1883. It had a short carriage drive and a gatelodge. It was on 1.5 acres in 1934/5 when
it was put up for sale. The name of the house was changed from Temora, (another word for Tara -
the seat of the high kings of Ireland) to Pranstown House in the 1950's. Irish Nationwide purchased
the site in in the 1980's and Booterstown Wood apartments were built circa 2007.
YEAR BUILT circa 1830
VALUATION In 1887 the valuation was 62 pounds and in the 1911 census it is noted as
having 11 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, Griffith's Valuation,
OSI Maps, Thom's, and South Dublin Historical Mapping.
OCCUPANTS
1847 - 1851 Richard Purdy
1862 - 1863 Edward Chapman
1865 - 1868 Charles Michael Coyne
1870 - 1871 John Quinlan
1875 - 1882 Mrs Kavanagh
1884 - 1894 Kavanagh/Kennedy Family
1904 - 1918 Lieut Col Henry Plews
1923 - 1925 Ernest Robert Jordison
1928 - 1934 William Holden
1934 - 1935 For sale on 1.5 acres
1936 - 1943 Dr Charles J O'Reilly
1944 For Sale
1952 - 1955 Hon Col Edward Plantagenet Joseph Corbally Stourton
1956 - 1959 Dr Petrus Albertus Kasteel
1965 - Roman Catholic Church: Press Office/Veritas Publications
(Radharc/Trocaire communications centre, Council for Social Welfare )
STAFF
1849 Andrew Corrigan - Gateporter
1876 John Brophy - Gardener
1911 Catherine Cook - Domestic Servant
George Zinkant - Chauffeur
Tereza Duffy - Cook
Julia Kiely - Parlour maid
1943 - 1959 Tighe family - living at gatelodge
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE January 2020
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The remains of Temora gatelodge, home to the Tighe family - Courtesy of Gerard O'Kelly