Manresa (formerly Baymount or Granby Hall), Clontarf, Co Dublin

by jenjunebug

Baymount, Clontarf, Co Dublin (Manresa) – owned by Jesuits 

Bence-Jones, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.  

p. 34. “A Georgian house of three storeys over a basement with a curved bow in the centre of one of its fronts, mildly castellated in early C19; with a battlemented parapet and two rather thin turrets on either side of the bow. Classical interior. Castellated stableyard. The residence of Dr. Trail, Bishop of Down and Connor, later, ca 1837, the residence of J. Keily. Now owned by the Society of Jesus.” 

Manresa House in Clontarf, formerly called Granby Hall and Baymount Castle.

Manresa Jesuit Retreat Centre, Clontarf, photograph courtesy of National Inventory. A three-bay three-storey house over basement, dated 1838, incorporating mid-eighteenth-century fabric. Originally known as Granby Hall, this house was leased by Doctor James Traill, Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Connor, in 1775. Robert Warren was later granted a lease of the land and house from J.E.V. Vernon in 1838, undertaking to construct new outbuildings, gate lodges, and to repair and improve the house, and renaming it Baymount Castle. 

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