The Houses
Villa Maria
16 February 2022 | authorThe render atmosphere – all Wrightian vertical setsquare lines and yellow grass and exotic plants – feels light and airy. Optimistic. American. The crisp geometric angles of the form are reminiscent of Frank LLoyd Wright’s Californian Mayan works, but floating.Read More
Bayview-Killiney Stores
31 January 2022 | authorFrom 1900 to 1921 Bay View was the location of the Killiney Telephone Exchange when it was engulfed in fire and destroyed during an incident which occurred during The War of IndependenceRead More
Mount Mapas
27 January 2022 | authorMount Mapas was the first house to be built on Victoria Road and the southern end of the Vico Road. Read More
Kilda Lodge
26 January 2022 | authorMia Cranwill was an Irish designer and metal artist, and was one of the leading artists of the Irish Celtic Revival. She lived in the lodge which she called Drum-Goibhneann in the 1920’s to 1930’s.Read More
Gone but not forgotten (Part 1)
29 October 2021 | authorThis is the first of a number of articles which we plan to publish over the next few months recording the houses and other buildings which are no longer with us but which formed part of the vanishing fabric of Killiney. Read More
Glenalua Terrace
9 October 2021 | authorThe set-piece design of the terrace is symmetrical in layout with the central single storey houses book-ended by the two storey gables of houses 1 and 6. The design is unusual in that access is provided via a raised pedestrian walkway which was determined by the sloping nature of the site and the underlying rock upon which it is built. Read More
Merton Lodge (now Ballycarbery)
3 August 2021 | authorEarliest map 1837 Fair Plan of 1837 showing Killiney Lodge (Merton Lodge) Published map of 1843 showing Killiney Lodge (Merton Lodge). Glenfield was later demolished to make way for The Grove which was built c. 1852 Court case of 1837 … Read More