Whitehall


NAME                        White Hall/Whitehall Park/Whitehall

AREA LOCATION    Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock.  
 
MAP LOCATION     OSI maps of 1838-1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Newtown
                                   Blackrock and is annotated as White Hall School and White Hall respectively.
 
GENERAL                 A large detached residence, it was approached from a gatelodge on Carysfort
avenue.  It had a long sweeping carriage drive and backed on to Sweetman's avenue now the site
of Blackrock Business Park.  It was run as a school for ladies from 1835 to 1847, after which it was
put up for sale.  In the 1830 it had pleasure gardens and parterre, in addition to a six acre lawn.   
​From 1850 to 1870 it was called Whitehall Park.

YEAR BUILT              circa 1800
 
VALUATION             In 1866 the valuation was 54 pounds and in the 1901 census it is noted as having
                                    13 rooms occupied by the family.
 
ARCHITECT               unknown 
 
SOURCES                  Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, Griffith's Valuation, NAI Census
                                    and Wills & OSI Maps.
  
OCCUPANTS
 
1802 - 1811              James Maguire
1814                          Matthew Maguire
1823                          Louisa Dawson RIP (wife of Thomas) survived by 9 children.
1835 - 1847              Hughes family and White Hall School
1849 - 1851              George Mark
1853                          Rev John C Chute
1854 - 1873              George Nesbitt
1865                          Jane Rossiter
1875                          Vacant
1876 - 1889              Patrick Dolan
1890                          Vacant
1891 - 1892              Samuel A W Waters 
1893 - 1896              Col Henry Laurence Dundas
1897 - 1934              Avoca School - Albert MacDonogh 
1935                          Avoca school - Cyril Parker 
1940                          House converted to flats
1936 - 1963              Bradmola Hosiery Mills
1963 - 1985              Glen Abbey
1995                          Blackrock Business Park                         
                                                                                                                                   
STAFF

1901                          Mary Kearns - Cook/Laundress
                                   Elizabeth Garner - General Domestic
1911                          Charlotte Stephens - Cook
                                   Annie Devlin - Nurse
1917                          Roger Gethings - Labourer living on site
1920 - 1923              Peter Pender - Gardener -living at gatelodge. 
  
CURRENT
STATUS                    No longer extant. 

CONTRIBUTOR      © June Bow & Karen Poff​
DATE                         February 2021