1706
The rebuilding of Stillorgan Church starts (1706-1712) by the Allen Family. With the rebuilding of the church early in the 18th graves disappeared. Archbishop William King collaborates with John Allen (also owner of Carrickmines estates) to rebuild Stillorgan Church. Archbishop King, has been attributed with the rebuilding of the ruins of Tully, Killiney, Kill, Taney, Kilgobbin and Rathmichael.
1716
June 1716 a sepulchral chamber was discovered at Stillorgan, ”Lined with flag-stones and covered over with one massive, flat stone of such a size that 10 men were unable to lift it. In the interior were fragments of human bones, accompanied by an urn containing what appeared to be loose earth. It was thought to be the grave of some chieftain or person of distinction, though no tradition has been handed down to us as to his identity, and it may be that he was the Lorcan commemorated in the ancient name of the locality, which has been modified into the modern designation of Stillorgan.
1717
John Allen is conferred with Baronage of Stillorgan and Viscount Allen of Kildare,
1726
Joshua Allen the 2nd becomes the 2nd Viscount of Stillorgan on the death of his father in that year. Unexecuted plans for Palladian remodelling of house. Obelisk (executed), designed as mausoleum for Lady Allen. Also water feature with grotto (executed) for John Joshua, 2nd Viscount Allen.
1727
Obelisk built for Lady Allen as a mausoleum (but Lord Allen’s favourite horse is reputed to be buried there).
c1728
Stillorgan Grotto built on what is now Stillorgan Park Road (in private hands). Famine in the area known as “the year of the great frost”.
1730
Burton Hall is built in Leopardstown by Samuel Burton, his brother Richard builds a similar house called Rocklands facing it.
1730
Pearce leased the property of Tylorcain Hall and the Grove, Stillorgan, Co Dublin from John Joshua, 2nd Viscount Allen, of Stillorgan House. He was knighted on 10th March 1732 awarded the Freedom of the Dublin on 6 April 1733, and died “ of a violent cholick in his stomach” at Stillorgan, on 7 December 1733. He was buried on 10 December at Donnybrook cemetery, where his grave is no longer identifiable. He married his first cousin, Anne (d.1749), daughter of Lieutenant General Thomas Pearce, by whom he had four daughters.
1732
Dean Swift and Archbishop King are some of the notable names visiting Stillorgan Grove (the only other house of note in the area was Monkstown Castle.)
1733
Sir Edward Lovett Pearce was architect of the Obelisk and the Bank of Ireland building at College Green formally the Parliament buildings housing both House of Commons and Lords on the one site). He dies (septicaemia from an abscess) age 34 in a house called The Grove (Tig Lorcain Hall/The Leisureplex) on the Allen estate reputedly built by himself.
1741
Famine – Over 500,000 have died from starvation
1742
Lord Allen dies, and third Viscount only outlives his father by 3 years.
1750
Seamount (St Helens/The Radisson) is built for Thomas Cooley MP. (House deeds registered in 1754). Elizabeth Allen (John Allen’s eldest daughter inherits all and marries a Col. John Proby (Lord Carysfort).
c1750
Brewery is opened (between 1747 and 1757) and is known as Mr Medcalf's Brewery.
1752
Bishop Pococke in his tour of Ireland describes Mount Merrion “as a most glorious situation commanding a fine view which appears very beautiful from the top of the hill through the vistoes cut in the grove of fir trees.” (sic) There were really very few big houses in the area at that time and the entrance gates to Mount Merrion House were at Blackrock. Its East avenue starting at the bottom of what we now know as Mount Merrion Avenue. Another avenue of approach was what we now know as Booterstown Avenue via Cross Avenue.
1757
John Roques maps shows villages at the mouth of the Glaslower as Black Rock town and the mouth of the Stradbrook and Rochestown stream is Dunleary which is reported as being made up of 70 dwellings, the row at the Purty kitchen is all the remains of this now.
1764
Stillorgan Church has fallen into disrepair church records state "Church has to be rebuilt as it has “fallen down” and undergoes a restoration. (Beather King is listed as resident Clergyman). Westbury House (St Raphaela's) is built – and becomes the home of the Pilkingtons. The parishes of Stillorgan and Kilmacud are severed from Monkstown.
1765
Hoard of silver Edward IV coins found at Stillorgan close to the 4 mile stone by a labourer digging a potato trench. The coins changed hands for little money. Some ended up with a silver smith who melted them down.
1772
Law passed by Irish parliament banning burial within churches.
1777
The outskirts of Stillorgan are advertised for building, followed the building of Carysfort House & Stillorgan Castle (St John of Gods). History tells us that it was built on the site of the Wolverston House, the original home of the Raymond Carew, a Strongbonian Baron. Its original occupant is William Monck Mason. A G Tisdall dies, the 2nd Baron Carysfort inherits.
1781
A stone slab is discovered at Stillorgan graveyard once thought to be from a 9th Century church. 38 years later, slabs are found in Rathmichael and the concentric lines are similar to that of the Tullycross and the slabs at Tully church, but the slab found at Stillorgan Church has disappeared, and what was thought to be the slab in question was a worn decorated headstone dated 1767.
The parish boundaries are changed again. Booterstown, which included Blackrock, Stillorgan, Kilmacud and Dundrum are separated from Donnybrook. Some twenty-six years later Viscount Fitzwilliam provided £6,000 to replace the old chapel at Booterstown with a new church.
c1788
Frederick Darley marries Elizabeth Guinness.
1789
Festival advertised at Blackrock, every publican in Dublin is invited by John Magee, who was the printer and promoter of the Dublin Evening Post newspaper, to attend and set up tents selling porter in fields adjoining the Temple Hill estate. There was to be a pig race and in the end the gardens of the owner of temple Hill were trashed by the pigs, which was the main intention of the day as far as we know. John Magee had just lost a libel case at the hand of the Judge, Lord Clonmell who was owner of Temple Hill House and gardens. It was estimated that eight thousand people from the surrounding areas attended. " At one o'clock," to quote the original advertisement, "the ball will be kicked on Fiat Hill. Dinner on the tented field at three o'clock. Table d'hote for ladies and gentlemen. Cudgel-playing at five, with cool umpires to prevent ill temper and preserve good humour."
c1790
Belmont is built at Galloping Green. Around this time, it is recorded by Arthur Young an English Agriculturalist, that "an Irish Gentleman could comfortably keep a carriage, four horses, three manservants, three maids and a nurse for about £500 a year." A kitchen maids wages were about £2 per year.
1791
Kilmacud Manor (St Josephs Carmelite monastery) is occupied by William Snell Magee. Parliament’s house of Commons is destroyed by fire (the architect of that building was Edward Lovett Pearce).
1795
Seamount is recorded as being sold to Robert Alexander (Church warden at St Philip and St James).
1799
Redesdale is sold to Sir John Freeman Mitford - Lord Redesdale. Ancestor of the famous Mitford sisters - Unity, Nancy , Diana, Jessica, Pamela & Deborah, their father was David Freeman-Mitford (2nd Baron of Redesdale ).
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The rebuilding of Stillorgan Church starts (1706-1712) by the Allen Family. With the rebuilding of the church early in the 18th graves disappeared. Archbishop William King collaborates with John Allen (also owner of Carrickmines estates) to rebuild Stillorgan Church. Archbishop King, has been attributed with the rebuilding of the ruins of Tully, Killiney, Kill, Taney, Kilgobbin and Rathmichael.
1716
June 1716 a sepulchral chamber was discovered at Stillorgan, ”Lined with flag-stones and covered over with one massive, flat stone of such a size that 10 men were unable to lift it. In the interior were fragments of human bones, accompanied by an urn containing what appeared to be loose earth. It was thought to be the grave of some chieftain or person of distinction, though no tradition has been handed down to us as to his identity, and it may be that he was the Lorcan commemorated in the ancient name of the locality, which has been modified into the modern designation of Stillorgan.
1717
John Allen is conferred with Baronage of Stillorgan and Viscount Allen of Kildare,
1726
Joshua Allen the 2nd becomes the 2nd Viscount of Stillorgan on the death of his father in that year. Unexecuted plans for Palladian remodelling of house. Obelisk (executed), designed as mausoleum for Lady Allen. Also water feature with grotto (executed) for John Joshua, 2nd Viscount Allen.
1727
Obelisk built for Lady Allen as a mausoleum (but Lord Allen’s favourite horse is reputed to be buried there).
c1728
Stillorgan Grotto built on what is now Stillorgan Park Road (in private hands). Famine in the area known as “the year of the great frost”.
1730
Burton Hall is built in Leopardstown by Samuel Burton, his brother Richard builds a similar house called Rocklands facing it.
1730
Pearce leased the property of Tylorcain Hall and the Grove, Stillorgan, Co Dublin from John Joshua, 2nd Viscount Allen, of Stillorgan House. He was knighted on 10th March 1732 awarded the Freedom of the Dublin on 6 April 1733, and died “ of a violent cholick in his stomach” at Stillorgan, on 7 December 1733. He was buried on 10 December at Donnybrook cemetery, where his grave is no longer identifiable. He married his first cousin, Anne (d.1749), daughter of Lieutenant General Thomas Pearce, by whom he had four daughters.
1732
Dean Swift and Archbishop King are some of the notable names visiting Stillorgan Grove (the only other house of note in the area was Monkstown Castle.)
1733
Sir Edward Lovett Pearce was architect of the Obelisk and the Bank of Ireland building at College Green formally the Parliament buildings housing both House of Commons and Lords on the one site). He dies (septicaemia from an abscess) age 34 in a house called The Grove (Tig Lorcain Hall/The Leisureplex) on the Allen estate reputedly built by himself.
1741
Famine – Over 500,000 have died from starvation
1742
Lord Allen dies, and third Viscount only outlives his father by 3 years.
1750
Seamount (St Helens/The Radisson) is built for Thomas Cooley MP. (House deeds registered in 1754). Elizabeth Allen (John Allen’s eldest daughter inherits all and marries a Col. John Proby (Lord Carysfort).
c1750
Brewery is opened (between 1747 and 1757) and is known as Mr Medcalf's Brewery.
1752
Bishop Pococke in his tour of Ireland describes Mount Merrion “as a most glorious situation commanding a fine view which appears very beautiful from the top of the hill through the vistoes cut in the grove of fir trees.” (sic) There were really very few big houses in the area at that time and the entrance gates to Mount Merrion House were at Blackrock. Its East avenue starting at the bottom of what we now know as Mount Merrion Avenue. Another avenue of approach was what we now know as Booterstown Avenue via Cross Avenue.
1757
John Roques maps shows villages at the mouth of the Glaslower as Black Rock town and the mouth of the Stradbrook and Rochestown stream is Dunleary which is reported as being made up of 70 dwellings, the row at the Purty kitchen is all the remains of this now.
1764
Stillorgan Church has fallen into disrepair church records state "Church has to be rebuilt as it has “fallen down” and undergoes a restoration. (Beather King is listed as resident Clergyman). Westbury House (St Raphaela's) is built – and becomes the home of the Pilkingtons. The parishes of Stillorgan and Kilmacud are severed from Monkstown.
1765
Hoard of silver Edward IV coins found at Stillorgan close to the 4 mile stone by a labourer digging a potato trench. The coins changed hands for little money. Some ended up with a silver smith who melted them down.
1772
Law passed by Irish parliament banning burial within churches.
1777
The outskirts of Stillorgan are advertised for building, followed the building of Carysfort House & Stillorgan Castle (St John of Gods). History tells us that it was built on the site of the Wolverston House, the original home of the Raymond Carew, a Strongbonian Baron. Its original occupant is William Monck Mason. A G Tisdall dies, the 2nd Baron Carysfort inherits.
1781
A stone slab is discovered at Stillorgan graveyard once thought to be from a 9th Century church. 38 years later, slabs are found in Rathmichael and the concentric lines are similar to that of the Tullycross and the slabs at Tully church, but the slab found at Stillorgan Church has disappeared, and what was thought to be the slab in question was a worn decorated headstone dated 1767.
The parish boundaries are changed again. Booterstown, which included Blackrock, Stillorgan, Kilmacud and Dundrum are separated from Donnybrook. Some twenty-six years later Viscount Fitzwilliam provided £6,000 to replace the old chapel at Booterstown with a new church.
c1788
Frederick Darley marries Elizabeth Guinness.
1789
Festival advertised at Blackrock, every publican in Dublin is invited by John Magee, who was the printer and promoter of the Dublin Evening Post newspaper, to attend and set up tents selling porter in fields adjoining the Temple Hill estate. There was to be a pig race and in the end the gardens of the owner of temple Hill were trashed by the pigs, which was the main intention of the day as far as we know. John Magee had just lost a libel case at the hand of the Judge, Lord Clonmell who was owner of Temple Hill House and gardens. It was estimated that eight thousand people from the surrounding areas attended. " At one o'clock," to quote the original advertisement, "the ball will be kicked on Fiat Hill. Dinner on the tented field at three o'clock. Table d'hote for ladies and gentlemen. Cudgel-playing at five, with cool umpires to prevent ill temper and preserve good humour."
c1790
Belmont is built at Galloping Green. Around this time, it is recorded by Arthur Young an English Agriculturalist, that "an Irish Gentleman could comfortably keep a carriage, four horses, three manservants, three maids and a nurse for about £500 a year." A kitchen maids wages were about £2 per year.
1791
Kilmacud Manor (St Josephs Carmelite monastery) is occupied by William Snell Magee. Parliament’s house of Commons is destroyed by fire (the architect of that building was Edward Lovett Pearce).
1795
Seamount is recorded as being sold to Robert Alexander (Church warden at St Philip and St James).
1799
Redesdale is sold to Sir John Freeman Mitford - Lord Redesdale. Ancestor of the famous Mitford sisters - Unity, Nancy , Diana, Jessica, Pamela & Deborah, their father was David Freeman-Mitford (2nd Baron of Redesdale ).
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