Photograph of signpost at end of Brewery Road December 1978 - Courtesy of Nollaig
NAME WALTERSLAND
AREA LOCATION STILLORGAN, opposite the reservoir.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Waltersland
and it is annotated as Waltersland on both maps. It is also on Taylors map of 1816. The house
was demolished in 1962 and so far no images of it have surfaced. Lawnswood Park off Brewery
Road was built on this site.
GENERAL
YEAR BUILT circa 1808
VALUATION In 1912 the valuation was 50 pounds and in the 1901 census it is noted as
having 18 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills
and OSI maps.
OCCUPANTS
1806 Owned by William Snell Magee of Parson Green (back to back properties)
1805 - 1808 Henry Waldron
1808 - 1815 House to let on 7 acres by Miss Jane Bolton and Mrs O'Farrell of Merville
1822 Henry Smith
1823 - 1824 Robert & Mary Ann Guinness
1824 - 1850 William Henry Smith
1855 - 1860 Henry MacManus
1858 John Sweetman
1864 For Sale/Let
1865 Sir Beresford McMahon
1875 - 1877 Henry Clinton Foss
1877 For Sale or To Let
1879 - 1884 Henry Walter Close
1885 - 1886 Vacant
1887 - 1890 Major Charles E Souper
1891 - 1892 Vacant
1893 - 1901 John Overington Blunden
1901 - 1928 George Vaughan Hart
1928 - 1961 Maud Hart
1961 Sale notice
1962 Demolished
STAFF
1901 Rose Shields - Cook
Anne Flanagan - Parlour maid
1911 Annie White - General Domestic servant
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE April 2018
AREA LOCATION STILLORGAN, opposite the reservoir.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Waltersland
and it is annotated as Waltersland on both maps. It is also on Taylors map of 1816. The house
was demolished in 1962 and so far no images of it have surfaced. Lawnswood Park off Brewery
Road was built on this site.
GENERAL
YEAR BUILT circa 1808
VALUATION In 1912 the valuation was 50 pounds and in the 1901 census it is noted as
having 18 rooms occupied by family.
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills
and OSI maps.
OCCUPANTS
1806 Owned by William Snell Magee of Parson Green (back to back properties)
1805 - 1808 Henry Waldron
1808 - 1815 House to let on 7 acres by Miss Jane Bolton and Mrs O'Farrell of Merville
1822 Henry Smith
1823 - 1824 Robert & Mary Ann Guinness
1824 - 1850 William Henry Smith
1855 - 1860 Henry MacManus
1858 John Sweetman
1864 For Sale/Let
1865 Sir Beresford McMahon
1875 - 1877 Henry Clinton Foss
1877 For Sale or To Let
1879 - 1884 Henry Walter Close
1885 - 1886 Vacant
1887 - 1890 Major Charles E Souper
1891 - 1892 Vacant
1893 - 1901 John Overington Blunden
1901 - 1928 George Vaughan Hart
1928 - 1961 Maud Hart
1961 Sale notice
1962 Demolished
STAFF
1901 Rose Shields - Cook
Anne Flanagan - Parlour maid
1911 Annie White - General Domestic servant
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE April 2018