Edmund Purcell was granted land in Crumlin in 1609.
Because of the name Francis John Purcell. Mansion House must be an alternative name for Crumlin House. Presumably, as the house named after the townland, it was regarded as the mansion house for the parish.
Owner / Occupier Information: Burials of members of the Purcell family from 1682 to the 1800s are recorded on a memorial (now broken) in St. Mary’s Graveyard.
1814: Michael Keogh of Crumlin House, barrister at law, was buried in St. Mary’s Graveyard.
Thom’s Directory
1831-1832 William Collins [“Mr. Collins of Crumlin House was probably a manager for the Purcell family who had lived there for two centuries” – Frank Oman, ‘Old Crumlin disappearing’, in ‘Chat”, Mar. 1972.]
1839 – 1840 Michael Spratt, esq.
1841 – 1842 Mr. Elmore
1844 Peter F. Alma, esq.
1845 – 1856 Ignatius Francis Purcell, esq.
1857 – 1858 Miss Purcell
1859 – 1864 Misses Purcell (Crumlin house, Rosebush)
1865 – 1869 Joseph Morgan (Crumlin house, Rosebush)
1870 Francis John Purcell (Crumlin house)
1871 – 1875 Francis John Purcell (Mansion house)
1876 Mrs. Armstrong (Mansion house)
1877 – 1904 George Hollwey, esq.
1880 – 1881 Arthur Kenney, market gardener
1905 – 1915 P. G. Hollwey, esq.
1916 – 1930 P. J. Hollwey
1931 Vacant
1932 – 1949 Edward Power
Opened by the Salesians in 1953.
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