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"Sandymount Park", Sandymount, Co.Dublin
This is 28 Newgrove Ave, Sandymount,also known as the "Gandon Villa", "Roslyn Park", Sandymount.
At the corner of Newgrove Ave and the coast road, Strand Rd (or Beach Rd), Sandymount, Dublin 4.
Eithne, Sandymount, 1930.
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Sandymount Park,
an 18th cent. villa designed by the great architect of Dublin, James Gandon, for his friend, the landscape painter William Ashford [see [Dict. Ir. Biog.]],
Ashford lived there from 1780,
he was living there when he painted Mount Merrion House 1806,
Ashford died there 1824.
See
entry
for 28 Newgrove Ave in
[Census, 1911].
Says house has 9 rooms,
5 windows in front of house,
has 1 stable and no other out-buildings.
Sandymount Park, now numbered as 28 Newgrove Ave,
was acquired by Dick Humphreys
and his wife after their marriage, late 1929,
they left Aug 1933.
28 Newgrove Ave is still listed as "Sandymount Park"
in [Thom's, 1949],
listed as vacant
in [Thom's, 1950].
It then became a convent and school.
28 Newgrove Ave is
listed as Convent of the Sacred Heart of Mary
in [Thom's, 1951] onwards.
New buildings,
"Roslyn Park" secondary girls school,
built on the grounds.
Roslyn Park school, Strand Rd, listed
in [Thom's, 1951] onwards.
Roslyn Park is definitely same place as Humphreys house.
Roslyn Park school closed think 1982-83.
The buildings re-opened 1983 as HQ of
Rehab
(charity for people with various forms of disability
and disadvantage).
There is now a centre of Rehab-related offices and organisations
at
Roslyn Park,
including
Roslyn Park College,
a college
for people with various disabilities
(and also adult education, corporate training
and other courses).
The "Gandon Villa"
is the HQ of
Access Ability,
part of Gandon Enterprises,
the commercial wing of the Rehab Group.
Dublin City Council
lists
"Roslyn Park House", Strand Rd, Dublin 4,
in its
Record of Protected Structures,
ref. 8024.
See [Irish Country Houses].
Location of Sandymount Park.
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Eithne, Sandymount, 1930.
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Unidentified car, ZI 4844.
Sandymount.
Must be Eoige, 1930-1.
An ad for Sandymount,
showing that Sandymount Park
and 28 Newgrove Ave are the same.
Eithne said they lived in the Gandon building,
but always referred to it as 28 Newgrove Ave.
The side of the building here is clearly the side
shown in the photos above
(see the right-angled change in height of the roof
at the corner).
The Gandon building described as
standing in large grounds.
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A note attached to this ad says: "1931 ?"
The Gandon building,
Roslyn Park, 1983.
The building has been modified since
Humphreys were there.
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The Gandon building, Roslyn Park.
Photo 2007.
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The Gandon building, Roslyn Park.
Photo 2007.
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and other angle.
The W side.
Photo 2007.
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The E side.
Photo 2007.
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and other shot.
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