What is recorded here
Situated to the NW of Stillorgan Road in a green area between Fosterbrook and Merrion Woods. A house known as St. Helen's built in 1760 for Thomas Cooley, MP. The house was known originally as Seamount. It was extensively refurbished a century later while in the ownership of Viscount Gough, Field Marshal of the British Army whose wife Marie Frances opened the gardens to the public. The house is a hotel of The Radisson Group.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 6 July 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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