Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
St. James, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- St. James
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- DU018-007016-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Large brick house, now demolished, known as Newtown Lodge that was built on Oxmantown Hill by Sir Henry Brouncker [Ranger of Phoenix Park 1672] (Ball 1906, 190; Litton-Falkiner 1904, 61). Falkiner (1904, 61) recorded that; 'Henry Brouncker erected a large brick house on that portion of Oxmantown hill which was added to the Newtown lands, overlooking the pond, which he named Newtown Lodge, and which was the first official residence (other than the Phoenix House built by Fisher) erected within the Park; and so continued till about 1760. Thenceforth it was the residence of the deer keepers till 1835, when all the land enclosed with it was granted to the Zoological Society and Newtown Lodge was demolished. This lodge was long known as the Ivy House'.
Compiled by : Geraldine Stout
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 26 January 2023
References
Ball, E.F. 1902-20 (Reprint 1979) A history of the County Dublin, 6 vols. Dublin. Gill and Macmillan.
Falkiner, C.L. 1904 Illustrations of Irish history and topography mainly in the seventeenth century. London. Longmans Greene.