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Walkinstown House - The site today

The site of the demolished Walkinstown House.

Aerial photo of Crumlin and Walkinstown, 1952.
After many housing estates built.
View from N.
Walkinstown House is on far RHS, surrounded by trees, on a road full of new houses.
From The Old Drone: Norman Ashe Aerial Photographic Collection. Norman Ashe photos are 1952-1954.
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Aerial photo of Crumlin and Walkinstown, 1952.
View from NE.
Walkinstown House is centre top, surrounded by trees, on a road full of new houses.
From The Old Drone: Norman Ashe Aerial Photographic Collection.
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Modern 3D view for comparison.
Walkinstown House site is now SuperValu.
From Google Maps.

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The N wall

The N boundary wall survives, with a modern addition on top.
Here is the corner at the road.
Photo 2012. See full size.
See street view of this location.

The old N wall, at the opening into the NE car park.
Photo 2012. See full size.

The old N wall, in the NE car park.
Photo 2012. See full size.

The NE car park.
This was the paddock to the NE of the house. It still follows exactly the same shape.
View looking N.
The old trees survive at the edge.
Photo 2012. See full size.

View at the top of the car park looking N (up the old main road into Wilkinstown).
Photo 2012. See full size.

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The front (W) wall

The wall survives, reduced in height, along the front (W side).
Local resident Brendan Marken says that the front wall here is the old wall, reduced in size and capped.
Photo 2012. See full size and other shot.

The front wall.
Photo 2012. See full size and other shot.

As well as part of the old wall, the old trees survive by Walkinstown Rd.
Behind them used to be the tennis court lawn, now the supermarket car park.
Photo 2007. See full size.

From modern street view.

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