robert warren
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
Killiney Castle, previously called Mount Malpas, Rocksborough and Loftus Hill
19 February 2021 | authorIn 1740 Colonel John Malpas built a house called Mount Malpas, now Killiney Castle, as a speculative development. Malpas must have let the castle in its early years, for in 1752 Falkiner’s Dublin Journal carried the following advertisement: Read More
Queenstown
28 December 2020 | author‘South View of Queenstown from Killiney Bay proposed to be built on the Obelisk Hill of Killiney near Kingstown in the County Dublin’ by Joseph Patrick Haverty 1840 Article from The Irish Penny Journal 5th June 1841
Our metropolitan readers, … Read More
Victoria Castle
4 December 2020 | authorIllustration from The Irish Penny Journal 5th June 1841 Article from The Irish Penny Journal of 5th June 1841. View of entrance c.1988
Plans to develop a new town, to be called Queenstown, on the estate of Robert Warren … Read More
The Railway
1 December 2020 | authorWhen the line opened on 10th July 1854 there were two stations serving the area; Ballybrack station off the end of the military road; and Obelisk Hill perched half way up a cliff in Mr. Warren’s Deerpark.Read More
Mount Eagle
20 November 2020 | authorIn 1838 Symes exhibited plans of ‘a villa, now erecting at Brighton Cliff, at the south side of Killiney Hill, for Robert Warren Esq.’ at the Royal Hibernian Academy.Read More