On the left is- CAIRN HILL A Victorian house built c. 1860, home of OUR WALK STARTS Sealy Lett, Wine Merchant. In 1950s and 60s, this house was occupied by the notorious Paul AT FOXROCK 2 Singer, who launched Shanahan’s Stamp Auctions, in which many small investors lost their CHURCH AT THE life’s savings, resulting in long court cases. It is now a Nursing Home. TOP OF KILL LANE 3 KILTERAGH PINES Built c. 1905 for Sir Horace Plunkett, Politician. Best known for his work for the Agricultural Co-Operative Movement in Ireland. He entertained politicians and literary people at Kilteragh, including Michael Collins, G.B. Shaw, Lady Gregory etc. In 1923, during the Civil War, his home was burnt and destroyed. The house was reconstructed and set in maisonettes. Sir Horace Plunkett died in England in 1931.

4 PRIMROSE COTTAGE Orig. built as the Estate Office when the Bentley Brothers were laying out Foxrock Estate. Later it became a shop and tea-rooms 1 This is The Church of Our Lady of (Picnic Cottage), and a P.O. in 1870, and also a Telephone Perpetual Succour.Foxrock Parish. Exchange in 1895. Closed as P.O. in 1940s. Opened 1935 by Archbishop Byrne. Built of Dublin and Wicklow granite. Cross by the footbridge towards 5 FOX’S HEAD STONE Loreto School, and go south along At the crossroads in shrubbery, a Fox’s Head is carved on a Bray Road. Turn Right into large granite stone seat. This stood outside Primrose Cottage Westminster Road. until 1969. The image of the fox is now badly weathered.

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6 HOTEL (Now Vanished) Across the road in the cul-de-sac, on the left hand side of the road are a few new houses where once stood a large hotel built by the Bentley Bros. in 1860, called ‘Victoria Hotel’ and later ‘Tourist Hotel’. Bentley Bros. fell into financial difficulties and the estate was taken over by the Royal Exchange Insurance Co., who converted the hotel into accommodation for working-class people.Here also is a rare, but still operational early type of telephone box. 12 C O O L D R I N A G H FINDLATER’S SHOP Samuel Beckett was 7 born at Cooldrinagh in Findlaters Shop 1906. The house was Supplied The Groceries to built in 1903 by the large Frederick Hicks for his houses of the Foxrock Foxrock Estate father, Wm. Beckett, Quantity Surveyor. Samuel Now a fine Beckett still lived here while a student at Trinity. Resturaunt. He featured Foxrock & environs in many works. Walks

ELLESMERE Home of Beatrice Elvery 8 FOXROCK RAILWAY STATION Short No. 2 13 (Lady Glenavy) Painter and Stained glass Artist. Now vanished, this station on the Harcourt St Local History Foxrock Line served the races with a special platform. CARRICKMINES HOUSE Orig. Tullow Walks Area 14 9 LEOPARDSTOWN RACECOURSE Ho.The first curate of Tullow Ch. ran a school Time.1½Hr. Distance 5 Km. here in 1867. Dan MacInerney Builder lived This was the old pedestrian entrance to the races Approx. here.It is now the Iranian Embassy residence 10 FOXROCK Continue through TULLOW CHURCH W.W.Bently, the Foxrock Village to Brighton Road where a few 15 cottages remain, which were originally occupied developer of Foxrock by Gardeners Coachmen, and Dairymen Estate, bought the site for a working on the great houses of the Foxrock Church in 1862 Completed estate. in 1864, it is a Gothic 11 granite structure much TRESILLIAN modified. Formerly Kerrymount House Built for Mrs. Turn down Cornelscourt Hill, passing on the right Edmundson, who erected 16 the castellated Hollywood House, and the old gasworks at rear of house and 17 wall of Cabinteely Estate. On the left was provided the first public Cunniam’s Farm. Some old farm buildings 18 gaslight on the footpath in the remain at Roe’s Stonemasons. In Cornelscourt area. From 1864 Tullow 19 Village the Indian Restaurant was the Old parish Church incumbents and curates lived in Schoolhouse built 1840. The Magic Carpet was 20 the house. In 1899, Arthur McMurrough a farmers house later a grocer’s shop.The Mart Murphy, ‘The O Morchu’, lived here. 21 built by Bently was later G.f. Collins Grocery finally divided into small shops. Return to Foxrock Ch. by the main Rd. Published by Foxrock Local History Club