Leicester House - The site today
The site of the vanished
Leicester House, Crumlin
today.
Leicester House
was on the main East-West Drimnagh Rd / Crumlin Rd.
It was demolished in 1982-1985. Probably around 1983.
The location is now at the junction of
Errigal Rd
(see
map).
Leicester House site.
Overlay of
1887 to 1913 map
and
modern map.
Site is W side of Errigal Rd.
To E side of Errigal Rd
is
Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin.
The site of
Leicester House is now completely cleared and is occupied by a new building, the
Children's Medical and Research Foundation.
- There is absolutely nothing visible today.
See street view
of the corner.
-
I had thought that a small part of the wall on Errigal Rd might be old.
See 2012 photo
and
street view.
-
But looking at old maps and photos, I am not sure any more that it is old.
The stables
The stables are the only part of the Leicester House property that survives.
These were to the W side, set back from the road.
They were
built after the 1887 to 1913 map.
The stables
survive today, converted into a row of houses,
on Drimnagh Rd.
Local resident Maurice Kelly says:
"the stables for Leicester House were converted into houses.
I grew up in one ... They are the smaller houses adjacent to Magnum Tyres.
Myself and my friends found numerous horse shoes in the gardens in the 1970s."
The converted stables on street view.
Click to rotate.
Note the slightly odd windows.
The stables.
Photo 2012.
See full size.
See similar shot
and other end
Wider shot.
Photo 2012.
See full size.
