Landed Estate Court Rentals 1854
Vergemount House
NAME Virgemount/Virge Mont/Verge Mont/Vergemount/Vergemount House
AREA LOCATION Clonskeagh Road opposite Ashton's Pub. It was situated in the parish of St
Mary's Donnybrook on the new road between Cold Blow Lane and Roebuck.
Virgemount the area was between Cullenswood and Roebook. In the late
1820's & 1830's many new house were built in the Virgemount area.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Clonskeagh and it is annotated as Vergemount and Vergemount Hospital
respectively.
GENERAL The present entrance to the hospital is not the original entrance to the
house, the old entrance was where Vergemount Hall is now. It had a long carriage drive with
two gate lodges and the house was to the rear of the property. Virgemont was for let in 1806
on 11 acres within the walls and again in 1817 with information to be obtained from Charles
Crosthwaite of 21 Merchant's Quay. On 12 Dec 1856 Virgemount House was for sale by auction
through the Incumbered Estate Court. It was described as having dining and breakfast parlours,
drawing room, seven bedrooms, two dressing rooms, kitchen, scullery, coal vaults and a wine
cellar. Outside there was a lock up farm yard, stable for three horses, coach house, harness
room, boiler, laundry and dairy. In the garden there were fruit trees and in the park there were
Ash, Elm, Oak. Walnut and Horse Chestnut trees as well as evergreens and shrubs. Some of the
boundary walls collapsed during the storm of 1857 and if you look at the wall today you will see
hidden in the stones some carved faces and figures. John Crosthwaite had the house build as his
county retreat circa 1775 and in the early 1800's the family rented it out for seasons and perhaps
years at a time.
YEAR BUILT circa 1775
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom's, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, OSI Maps, South
Dublin Historical Mapping and Griffiths Valuation
OCCUPANTS
1795 - 1829 John Crosthwaite - Jeweller and watchmaker
1832 - 1842 Rev John Clarke Crosthwaite
1843 - 1854 Rev Dr James Henthorn Todd, Fellow TCD (brother in law of above)
1854 - 1856 For Sale through the Encumbered Court
1857 - 1862 John Donegan - Jeweller and watchmaker
1863 - 1872 Patrick Donegan, senior - Jeweller and watchmaker
1872 - 1883 Patrick Donegan, junior - Jeweller and watchmaker
1885 - 1889 Samuel Murray
1891 - 1893 Patrick Thompson
1894 - 1897 Mary Thompson
1898 - 1899 Charles Thompson
1900 - 1903 Vacant and acquired jointly by Pembroke Rathmines Townships
1904 - 1940 Vergemount Fever Hospital at Clonskeagh
1940 - 1992 Clonskeagh Fever Hospital
1993 Clonskeagh Nursing Home
STAFF
1849 Richard Harrison - Gatekeeper
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE November 2019
AREA LOCATION Clonskeagh Road opposite Ashton's Pub. It was situated in the parish of St
Mary's Donnybrook on the new road between Cold Blow Lane and Roebuck.
Virgemount the area was between Cullenswood and Roebook. In the late
1820's & 1830's many new house were built in the Virgemount area.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Clonskeagh and it is annotated as Vergemount and Vergemount Hospital
respectively.
GENERAL The present entrance to the hospital is not the original entrance to the
house, the old entrance was where Vergemount Hall is now. It had a long carriage drive with
two gate lodges and the house was to the rear of the property. Virgemont was for let in 1806
on 11 acres within the walls and again in 1817 with information to be obtained from Charles
Crosthwaite of 21 Merchant's Quay. On 12 Dec 1856 Virgemount House was for sale by auction
through the Incumbered Estate Court. It was described as having dining and breakfast parlours,
drawing room, seven bedrooms, two dressing rooms, kitchen, scullery, coal vaults and a wine
cellar. Outside there was a lock up farm yard, stable for three horses, coach house, harness
room, boiler, laundry and dairy. In the garden there were fruit trees and in the park there were
Ash, Elm, Oak. Walnut and Horse Chestnut trees as well as evergreens and shrubs. Some of the
boundary walls collapsed during the storm of 1857 and if you look at the wall today you will see
hidden in the stones some carved faces and figures. John Crosthwaite had the house build as his
county retreat circa 1775 and in the early 1800's the family rented it out for seasons and perhaps
years at a time.
YEAR BUILT circa 1775
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom's, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills, OSI Maps, South
Dublin Historical Mapping and Griffiths Valuation
OCCUPANTS
1795 - 1829 John Crosthwaite - Jeweller and watchmaker
1832 - 1842 Rev John Clarke Crosthwaite
1843 - 1854 Rev Dr James Henthorn Todd, Fellow TCD (brother in law of above)
1854 - 1856 For Sale through the Encumbered Court
1857 - 1862 John Donegan - Jeweller and watchmaker
1863 - 1872 Patrick Donegan, senior - Jeweller and watchmaker
1872 - 1883 Patrick Donegan, junior - Jeweller and watchmaker
1885 - 1889 Samuel Murray
1891 - 1893 Patrick Thompson
1894 - 1897 Mary Thompson
1898 - 1899 Charles Thompson
1900 - 1903 Vacant and acquired jointly by Pembroke Rathmines Townships
1904 - 1940 Vergemount Fever Hospital at Clonskeagh
1940 - 1992 Clonskeagh Fever Hospital
1993 Clonskeagh Nursing Home
STAFF
1849 Richard Harrison - Gatekeeper
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE November 2019