Woodview
NAME Woodview/Woodview House
AREA LOCATION 34 Mount Merrion Avenue close to Cross Avenue.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838 - 1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Blackrock it is annotated as Woodview on both.
GENERAL Four bedroom house for sale in 1953 on 4.5 acres of well laid out
garden and paddocks. It had two green houses and a 3 roomed gatelodge.
YEAR BUILT Pre 1824
VALUATION In 1881 the valuation was 60 pounds and in the 1901 census it is
noted as having 14 rooms occupied by the family.
ARCHITECT Unknown, alterations carried out in 1921 by P J Watchorn of Crumlin.
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census &
Wills, F E Ball and OSI Maps
OCCUPANTS
1824 Late Susannah Parkinson
1832 Furniture sale of the bankrupt
1836 - 1841 Benjamin Ball, solicitor
1855 To Let unfurnished
1856 Boarding & Day School - Master J W Martin
1859 Furniture sale
1859 - 1861 Woodview Boarding & Day School - Master H T Humphreys
1862 - 1863 Ladies Boarding & Day School - Mrs Bentham
1865 Furniture Sale
1880 - 1881 Elizabeth Anne Sandes late of Woodview in 1884
1882 - 1884 Rev William Brabazon
1885 Miss Brabazon
1890 Bedding and hot house plant sale
1891 - 1901 Robert Francis Stein
1901 - 1921 Mrs Mary Josephine Stein
1923 - 1941 Gordon F Joyce
1978 - 2002 Sacred Heart Missionaries.
2002 PPL for 74 houses on the site
STAFF
1901 Edward Dowdall - Gardener
Rebecca Tracy - Cook
Mary Moran - Maid
1923 - 1936 Mr C Dunne - Gardener
CURRENT Extant
STATUS
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE April 2025
AREA LOCATION 34 Mount Merrion Avenue close to Cross Avenue.
MAP LOCATION OSI maps of 1838 - 1845 and 1898-1913 place it in the townland of
Blackrock it is annotated as Woodview on both.
GENERAL Four bedroom house for sale in 1953 on 4.5 acres of well laid out
garden and paddocks. It had two green houses and a 3 roomed gatelodge.
YEAR BUILT Pre 1824
VALUATION In 1881 the valuation was 60 pounds and in the 1901 census it is
noted as having 14 rooms occupied by the family.
ARCHITECT Unknown, alterations carried out in 1921 by P J Watchorn of Crumlin.
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census &
Wills, F E Ball and OSI Maps
OCCUPANTS
1824 Late Susannah Parkinson
1832 Furniture sale of the bankrupt
1836 - 1841 Benjamin Ball, solicitor
1855 To Let unfurnished
1856 Boarding & Day School - Master J W Martin
1859 Furniture sale
1859 - 1861 Woodview Boarding & Day School - Master H T Humphreys
1862 - 1863 Ladies Boarding & Day School - Mrs Bentham
1865 Furniture Sale
1880 - 1881 Elizabeth Anne Sandes late of Woodview in 1884
1882 - 1884 Rev William Brabazon
1885 Miss Brabazon
1890 Bedding and hot house plant sale
1891 - 1901 Robert Francis Stein
1901 - 1921 Mrs Mary Josephine Stein
1923 - 1941 Gordon F Joyce
1978 - 2002 Sacred Heart Missionaries.
2002 PPL for 74 houses on the site
STAFF
1901 Edward Dowdall - Gardener
Rebecca Tracy - Cook
Mary Moran - Maid
1923 - 1936 Mr C Dunne - Gardener
CURRENT Extant
STATUS
CONTRIBUTOR © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE April 2025