On this site was the manor house: “In 1608 the king’s letter was issued for a grant of 100 acres here to Sir Patrick Fox… Sir Patrick occupied what was known as the Manor House which was situated at the village side of the lane which leads to Pearse Park” – Frank Oman, ‘The Wild Irish’ in ‘Chat’, Dec. 1968.
Owner / Occupier Information: Owned in 1775 by Thomas Smyth – Frans. Mathews Estate Map, mentioned by Finola Watchorn, ‘Crumlin and the way it was’.
“In the year of the [1831] Census Mr. R. Smith lived at Crumlin Manor House… Mr. Smith’s house occupied the same site as the earlier Manor House occupied by Sir Patrick Fox in the 17th century. It was later occupied by Major Joseph Deane of Cromwell’s army” – Frank Oman, ‘From the “Star” to the village in 1831’, in ‘Chat’, Nov./Dec. 1971.
Thom’s Directory
1847 – 1849 William Macdonnell, esq., principal clerk, army medical department (and 5 Dame Street)
1851 – 1852 Robert Smith, esq.
1857 – 1858 Mrs. Anne Wilson
1858 Mrs Anne Gustavus
1859 – 1861 William Macken Esq.
1860 – 1861 Samuel J. Macken Esq.
1862 – 1863 Thomas Dungan
1864 – 1865 Mrs Lawless
1865 – 1868 Thomas Bowles
1869 – 1879 Captain Robert Smith
1880 – 1882 Captain Thomas Joseph Atkinson
1883 – 1905 Captain Robert Smith
1906 – 1924 R. Hicks
1925 – 1926 Michael O’Donoghue
1927 – 1941 Thomas Roantree
1939 – 1949 P. Nolan
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