Victorian House at Dollymount
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Does anyone know where I could find information on a property that has (sadly) long since been demolished. Apparently this property was known as ‘Kincora’ (or KinKora) and was the house that originally gave the area of ‘Dollymount’ it’s name. (The house was originally called Dollymount House) I contacted the Irish Architectural Archive and this is a segment of their response –
According to Weston St. John Joyce’s The Neighbourhood of Dublin, (Dublin 1912, p. 252), ‘The name Dollymount would seem to have originated with a house bearing that title which stood on or adjoining the site of Sea Park in Mount Prospect Avenue, and which is shown in Duncan’s Map (William Duncan’s Map of the County of Dublin, 1821) of 1820 (sic). “Dollymount House” appears in the Dublin Directory up to 1836 after which it disappears, doubtless having been re-named, and in 1838 the name appears for the first time as that of a district…’
I would be very interested to hear who the architect was and if possible to see drawings of the original house.
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