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Beaufort House, Grange Road, is now the headquarters of the Loreto Order in Ireland. On the grounds is Loreto High School Beaufort which was founded in 1925. view | download Bloomfield
House, Willbrook Road. This name dates back at least
150 years and since the house became the headquarters of an extensive
laundry business, it provides another example of an old country
residence giving its title to a great industry. This house has been
identified by some historians as the one occupied by Thomas Addis
Emmet which is mentioned in Wolfe Tone 's diary. Tone records that
with Russell he walked out to Rathfarnham to meet Emmet. He was
shown a little study of an elliptical form which Emmet was building
at the bottom of the lawn, which he said he would consecrate to
our meetings if we lived to see our country emancipated. Tone suggested
that he should not omit the inclusion of a small wine cellar and
he was assured that this amenity was considered to be essential.
Before this house was demolished I searched without success for
the remains of the elliptical study.
Butterfield
House, an 18th
Centurey House which may have been occupied by Emmet prior to the
1803 Rising.
Butterfield
Lane in 1903, from The Footprints of Emmet by
J.J. Reynolds. The two council cottages on the left are still standing. This Circular
Pigeon House located in the garden of a house in
Crannagh Road, is a relic of Lord Ely's occupation of Rathfarnham
Castle. The entrance to this curious structure is by a low dooron
level with the ground and inside is lined from floor to roof with
holes for the pigeons. Drawing Room,
Loreto Abbey. This picture taken around 1900 is
from Ball's A History of the County Dublun. The drawing room
was maintained in its original condition by the Loreto Sisters. Ely Cottage,
later renamed Ely Lodge,. was shown on Frizell's
Map of 1779 as within the boundary of the Rathfarnham estate. Paddy
Healy makes the case that it may have been the dower house of Rathfarnham
Castle. This house was in very bad repair but has been restored
in a very tasteful manner. Entrance gates
to St. Enda's, also known as Hermitage This photograph
dates from around 1960. Fairbrook House Fonthill
Abbey the lands of which were built on without interfering
with the old house but, unfortunately, it has since been demolished. Gertrude Curran's
Grave Gertrude Curran died in 1792 at the age of 12 as the result
of a fall from a window. Curran had her buried in the grounds of
the Priory and over the grave he placed a recumbent slab on which
was fixed a metal plate bearing the inscription: Glenbrook House
was occupied by Thomas A.A. Kirkwood, the dispensary doctor from
1836 to 1847. Adjoining the house was the old dispensary for the
sick poor which was founded in 1801. Subscribers of one guinea had
the right to nominate one patient and any member out of work through
sickness was entitled to 3/-per week and free medical attention. Grove Cottage
was the last of the old houses in the Ponds and narrow lanes area
of Lower Rathfarnham was demolished around 1960. It was a very early
eighteenth century gabled residence and was probably the oldest
occupied house in Dublin. Harry Clarke
studio stained glass windows, Rathfarnham Castle
were removed by the Jesuits before leaving Rathfarnham Castle in
1986 and donated to Tullamore Catholic Church which had been destroyed
by fire in 1983. Lord Ely's
Gate - this fine entrance gateway, built in the form of a triumphal arch and originally leading to Rathfarnham Castle. The erection of this gateway is attributed to Henry Loftus,
Earl of Ely from 1769 to 1783 who also was responsible for the classical work at the castle itself. This is named "the new gate " on Frizell 's map of 1779.
Mill House
and cottages, Whitechurch Road c. 1960. Nutgrove School
. Nutgrove School was established in 1802 and closed
down in 1876 when it was occupied as a private residence. Paddy Healy,
archaeologist pictured with spade was part of the team which undertook
an archaeologiical investigation at Priory in 1979 in search of
Gertrude Curran 's grave. Rathfarnham
Castle, 2005 Rathfarnham
Graveyard c. 1960 containing the ruins of a church
which was dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul. This was a medieval
church and was used for Protestant worship down to 1795 when it
was found to be too small for the congregation and a new one was
erected a short way off. To the left of the picture near the entrance
to the graveyard is the grave of Capt. James Kelly, an old fenian
who was associated with the rising of 1867. He was organiser for
the Rathfarnham district and was known in the area as "The
Knight of Glendoo". Capt. Kelly died on 8th March 1915 in his
seventieth year.1780. Snugborough,
Grange Road in 1977. This house was recently replaced
by an apartment block. Temple
sited on the lands of Rathfarnham Castle, pictured in 1977. The
structure was demolished in 1979.
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