sandham symes
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
Ballinclea House
7 January 2021 | authorBallinclea House stood between Bellevue Park and Roche’s Hill on the east side of Ballinclea Road, but was demolished during the 1950s. It was an attractive late-Georgian house, built about 1800, with double bows.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
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