placenamesOrchardstown
Baile an Úlloird
An early nineteenth-century house and its later institutional use preserve a local history within the modern suburb.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Úlloird · Irish · main form · validated name
- Orchardstown · English · main form
Place & story
Orchardstown House
Orchardstown House stands off Washington Lane near Butterfield Avenue. The architectural inventory dates it to about 1800 and records a two-storey building with several bays. Its rendered walls, timber sash windows and later casements show changes to the fabric. One of its two timber doors has a simple radial fanlight, a surviving detail of the house’s older architectural character. [2]
A nineteenth-century institution
The local history Rathfarnham Roads records a different use for Orchardstown House between 1858 and 1892. During those years the Stanley family supervised a private asylum there. The account identifies the house as reached by a side road, distinguishing it from the buildings directly on Butterfield Avenue. This institutional period forms a separate chapter after the house’s original construction. [3]
Neighbouring Washington House
Rathfarnham Roads discusses Orchardstown alongside nearby Washington House, also formerly called Washington Lodge and Oulart House. It records occupation by the Grimwood family from the mid-nineteenth century until 1916. Washington House is one of several local buildings claimed as Robert Emmet’s residence. That disputed association belongs to the neighbouring house; the account does not establish Emmet as an Orchardstown House resident. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Civil parish
- Rathfarnham
- Within
- Butterfield
- Coordinates
- 53.29027, -6.30526 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 127082 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Orchardstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Orchardstown House, NIAH11216046, official survey search result · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Rathfarnham Roads, page56 · South Dublin Libraries, local history collection
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.