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Mount Merrion House, Co.Dublin





The lands of Mount Merrion came into the possession of Fitzwilliam of Dundrum in the mid-late 14th cent.
Their seat was at Merrion Castle, and they used ride up to the hill here to hunt the deer. Eventually they built their new seat up here.

Mount Merrion House was built in 1711 as a new seat by the 5th Viscount Fitzwilliam on the hill at Mount Merrion,
at the top of what is now the tree-lined Sycamore Crescent (the old E avenue).
The Lodge and the stables were built in 1711.
The family left for England c.1726.
At some point between then and 1762 the main block was built.
The family returned to Mount Merrion sporadically, rented it out other times.
They landscaped the Deer Park behind it.

The Fitzwilliam estates were inherited by the 11th Earl of Pembroke, 1816.
Mount Merrion was occupied for a time by Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea,
and later by Sir Neville Wilkinson 1903 to 1914.
He planted on the lawn there cuttings from the cedars of Lebanon at the Herbert's ancestral home Wilton House.

The estate at Mount Merrion started to be sold off to property developers 1918.
[Mount Merrion Estates booklet, 1925-26] shows the new housing estate being planned, as this area of Dublin rapidly built up with suburban housing in mid-20th century. Think first houses not built until early 1930s.
Mount Merrion House itself was sold to the Catholic church 1935.
The Lodge was converted for use as a Catholic church for the new local population, opened 1936.
It was replaced by the grand new Catholic church 1956.

The main block is gone.
The Lodge and the stables survive, beside the grand new Catholic church.






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