St Clares Park Sandymount Dublin

[nicknobbyclark]

Hi Shane

Just a quick update: Seafort Gardens apparently were British ex-servicemen's houses. Any records kept on this type of housing in the various Dublin archives?

Regards

Nick

[shanew147]

I dont know what specific records there might be of these types of houses... If they were for British army servicemen and owned by the Army I presume they would have been handed over either to the Irish Army along with the associated barracks, or to the state at Independence in 1922. If they were army property maybe there might be some sort of record of that ...although no idea as to where that might be... Dublin or London ?

If St. Clares' park was for example was the name of a terrace of smallish cottages, in the Seafort Gardens area, I suspect they might have been redeveloped or renamed when the beach road was constructed in the mid 1920s.
 


Shane

[eadaoin]

I don't know about records, but I was told that the bungalows in "Demesne" in Killester were ex-servicemen's houses built after WWI.
Thoms 1922 shows Killester demesne vacant
1937 calls that area Killester Garden City

Also the houses on Lower Churchtown Road near Windy Arbour.
1937- no particular name given to these houses

If we could look at a Thoms ~1925 - 1930 maybe it would have a name for these houses - we could look for a similar name in Sandymount
eadaoin

[Quaxer]

Eadaoin
Thoms 1928 does not contain a Lower Churchtown Road but merely Churchtown and in that there is nothing like a housing estate. In Killester there are New Cottages (12 in number) ,Killester Garden City. Demesne (Nos.1-73),Middle Third Street  (Nos.1-49) and Abbeyfield (Nos.1-125) .All these Killester house are in the 9-13 pounds rating range and look very like ex British Servicemens' houses.
In responseto Shane , all British Government property in the 26 Counties became the property of the Free State immediately or eventually unless it was moveable and was shipped out.
The real estate affairs of Irish ex Servicemen (as tonew homes ) appears to have been handled by The Irish Ex-Servicemaens Utility Society Ltd. which I see was active as late as 1950 in leasing land from Dublin Corporation.
I have seen reference to papers from the Attorney General's Office in the National Archives
Maybe all the relevant papers (the Utility Society) are in the Archives if not with the Registrar of Companies.

Regards            Quaxer

[WildKiwi]

Hi Nick
I'm just new on this and know nothing about Sandymount.  However, I think we are related and wanted to make contact as it is exciting.
My Dad's parents (Killeen, Dublin and Clark from London and Southend); two brothers and two sisters married. I think my Dad and your's used to sing together in Southend in their early teens.
Would love to make contact.
Wild Kiwi

[nicknobbyclark]

Hi Wild Kiwi

I have sent you a personal message via this forum

Nick

Can't do this apparently - Please see my last post for details on how to reach me.

[aghadowey]

New members usually need 3 posts to use PM (personal message) system.

[nicknobbyclark]

Hi Wild Kiwi

Can't use PM until you have made a total of 3 posts and I can't leave my email address here because of spam.

This is a shame as discussing family ties is a more private matter.

Please try this -

You can find my email address on-line by typing into Google 'Harry Tates Navy' then find the top web site in the search results, go to this site and click on ' 'Contact the Web Site' on the main page to get my email.

Good luck!

Nick.

[nicknobbyclark]

I've Just managed to find my Grandmothers family (Killeen) on the 1901 Census at 1 Potts Lane Blackrock Dublin. If anyone has anything relating to this address for example maps photographs or the location etc, I would be pleased to hear from them.

Nick