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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.

Modern street view of the location. Click to rotate.
The house is wiped out.
There is a small part of the wall on Errigal Road here that looks old. See 2012 photo.

It is unclear if the small part of wall is old.
Here is Leicester House in mid 20th century after some housing development.
The wall should be right beside the the block of new houses. But we do not see a wall at that location.
Courtesy of Crumlin & Walkinstown History Group.
See full size and original.

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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.
See screenshot.

The stables.
Photo 2012. See full size.
See similar shot and other end

Wider shot.
Photo 2012. See full size.