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14 No 73 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 Notes 1 Registry of Deeds, Dublin, memorial no 300430 of lease dated 30 December 1786, for 150 years from 29 September 1786, from Rt Hon. Richard Lord Fitzwilliam of Merrion to James Doyle, merchant of the city of Dublin. Wilson’s Dublin Directory shows ‘Doyle and Roe’ as wholesale merchants in Temple Bar from the 1780s to the 1790s. This is presumably the same Doyle since a Peter Roe developed the Merrion Square plot adjacent to James Doyle’s on the east (see The Statutes at Large, Passed in the Parliaments of Ireland... vol. XV, Grierson, Dublin, 1792, pp. 787–96, 31 Geo. III, 45: ‘An Act for Enclosing and Improving Merrion Square, in the City of Dublin’). A James Doyle, grocer, is also shown in the same decades with premises in Abbey Street and New Row. 2 Registry of Deeds, Dublin, memorial no 292526 of indenture of lease, 19 August 1792, from James Doyle, City of Dublin, merchant, to Hon. John Stratford of the same city of a house etc. on the south side of Merrion Square, bound on the east by a new brick dwelling house belonging to Peter Roe, and on the west by another new brick dwelling house belonging to James Doyle. The lease ownership of no 73 (not to be confused with occupancy of the premises) passed from members of the Doyle family to members of the Malone family in 1856, to members of the related Price and Malone families in 1898, 1899 and 1903, and from them to the Commissioners of Public Works in 1936 (OPW, Property Management Division, file no D.20 1/5/44, p. 5). On 29 January 1796 Doyle sold another newly built brick house etc. on the south-west side of Merrion Square: ‘Bounding on the south east to premises belonging to the said James Doyle... and on the north west to Humphrey Worthingstons holding’ (Registry of Deeds, Dublin, memorial no 319805; a map of the Fitzwilliam Estate, now in the Pembroke Estate papers in the National Archives and reproduced in Mary Clark & Alastair Smeaton, eds, The Georgian Squares of Dublin: An Architectural History, Dublin, 2006, p. 84, confirms this position of Doyle’s plot). This house is the present 74 Merrion Square, premises of the Central Catholic Library and also home to the Irish Georgian Society. See also Registry of Deeds, Dublin, memorial no 16, vol. 29 of 1865, of indenture of lease, 6 Sept. 1865, between William Smith of Merrion Square, barrister-at-law, and Henry Taaffe Farrell [sic], Raglan Rd, Co Dublin, ‘reciting that by indenture of Lease bearing date 13 [recte 19] August 1792 James Doyle demised unto John Stratford... Number 15 in said Square’. This latter memorial proves that no 15 and no 73 were one and the same house as the number is documented as having changed from 15 to 73 during Taaffe Ferrall’s tenure (Thom’s Directory, issues of 1879 to 1881). 3 See previous note. 4 In 1816 the Fitzwilliam Estate passed into the possession of the Earl of Pembroke and became the Pembroke Estate, which it remains. 5 For the general history of Merrion Square see Maurice Craig, Dublin 1660–1860: A Social and Architectural History, Cresset Press, London, 1952, and other editions; Nicola Matthews, ‘The Development of Merrion Square’, Masters in Urban & Building Conservations thesis, University College Dublin, 1997; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin, Yale, 2005; Clark & Smeaton as at Note 2 above; etc. 6 See Edith Mary Johnson-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800. Commons, Constituencies and Statutes vol. vi, Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast, 2002, pp. 366–7. See also Note 2 above. Samuel Watson’s The Gentleman’s and Citizen’s Almanack, Dublin, issues of 1796 to 1800, shows Stratford, then a member of the Commons of Ireland, living on Merrion Square at least from 1796 to 1800. The Almanack does not give the number of his house but Note 2 shows it to have been no 15. 7 See Oxford Dictionary of National Biography vol. 58, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
The Premises of the Irish Traditional Music Archive 15 2004, pp. 23–4; and the online site www.thepeerage.com ‘Stratford’. 8 Johnson-Liik 2002, vol. vi, p. 367. 9 See G.E. Cokayne et al., eds, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, London, 1910–59, vol. 1, p. 99; vol. 3, p. 17. 10 Johnson-Liik 2002, vol. vi, p. 367. 11 See Johnson-Liik 2002, vol. v, pp. 319–21. See also Wilson’s Dublin Directory, Dublin, for these years; and the online site www.thepeerage.com ‘De Montmorency’. 12 Johnson-Liik 2002, vol. v, p. 320. 13 The Times, London, 23 June 1796. 14 Pigot & Co’s Provincial Directory of Ireland 1824, Dublin, 1824, p. 20. 15 See Wilson’s Dublin Directory, Dublin, for these years; and the online site www.thepeerage.com ‘Browne’. 16 Registry of Deeds, Dublin, memorial no 210, volume 4 of 1835, of deed of conveyance, dated 24 Feb. 1835, from Rt Hon. Viscount Frankfort de Montmorency (deceased), the Rt Hon. Henry Montague Browne of Mullingar (one of de Montmorency’s executors), and others, to William Smith, Co Dublin, Esquire. See also Note 2 above for the transfer of the premises from Smith to Taaffe Ferral. 17 Edward Keane, P. Beryl Phair & Thomas U. Sadleir, eds, King’s Inn Admission Papers 1607–1867, Irish Manuscript Commission, Dublin, 1982, p. 454. 18 Pettigrew & Oulton’s Dublin Directory 1842, Dublin, 1842, p. 550. 19 The Times, London, 11 Oct. 1881. 20 The Downside Review, Bath, 1898, p. 310. See also Note 2 above and Thom’s Directory, Dublin, for these years. His name frequently appears in The Irish Times, as attending the Lord Lieutenant’s levee in Dublin Castle or involved in charitable Poor Law activities. 21 See Kelly’s Handbook of the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, London, 1888, p. 1042; Thoms’s Directory, Dublin, for these years. 22 See Thoms’s Directory, Dublin, for these years. 23 National Archives website www.census.nationalarchives.ie, census return for 73 Merrion Square. 24 Irish Times obituary, 21 January 1959, p. 10. 25 Thom’s Directory, Dublin, 1938, which shows his home address as 10 Clyde Road. 26 Thom’s Directory, Dublin, for these years. 27 OPW, Property Management Division, file no D.20 1/5/44, pp. 5, 16. 28 Thom’s Directory, Dublin, for these years. 29 Ibid. 30 Both organisations transferred to the premises in October 1953 (OPW, Property Management Division, file no D.20 1/5/44, p. 16). See also Thom’s Directory, Dublin, for these years. 31 See www.irmss.ie and www.iarc.ie. 32 See Nicholas Carolan, ‘The Forde-Pigot Collection of Irish Traditional Music’ in Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library, Bernadette Cunningham, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, Petra Schnabel eds, RIA, Dublin, 2009. 33 Eileen Shannon-Mangan, James Clarence Mangan: A Biography, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1996, pp. 65–75. 34 George Petrie ed., The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland vol. 1, Society for the Preservation and Publication of the Melodies of Ireland, Dublin, 1855, p. v. 35 Thom’s Irish Almanac and Official Directory... for the Year 1851, Dublin, 1851, pp. 957–1122 passim. 36 Petrie 1855, p. vi.
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