"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.

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 c.1800,
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. See full size.
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. See full size.
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The Gandon building, Roslyn Park.
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The W side.
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The E side.
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