Thanks to Liz Murphy and Tony ODoherty for these. Two images of detail from a map drawn up in 1795 for the then owner of Delville, David Babington. The property was known as Delville Demesne and extended to 11 acres. At this time (on the larger map) Glasnevin is stated to be in the Barony of Nethercross. The coloured sketch, from the Scally family archive, shows the position and size of the house (bottom of sketch in red). Glasnevin Hill is recorded here as Glasnevin Street. The immediate area outside the gate then comprised the main part of the old village. To the left of the house are the numbered gardens 2,3,4 and 5. 2 and 3 were most likely formal gardens devoted to horticulture and the others used for vegetable growing. 6 is a potato field which was bordered in part by the wall of St Mobhís churchyard. In this field Tony ODoherty identifies the small square shape above the number 6 as the location of the remainder of the Glasnevins castles ruins, built sometime around the 13th century. 7 marks a small garden with plantation and a greenhouse (almost centre of pic). 14 is listed here as pasture and was probably used in the Delanys time by their small herd of deer that Mrs Delany mentioned in her letters. These are also mentioned as roaming freely on the front lawn (number 10). The numbers 9 and 11 are a little obscure but are the wooded areas on the right of the map. The Nevin or Claremont stream flows through number 9 to feed the ornamental pond that Dr Delany had dug on the land. Beyond the pond is the area referred to by Mrs Delany as the Ever Green Wood. These wooded areas now back onto the back gardens of houses on Mobhí Road. To the rear of the house and almost centre of pic is a bowling green (number 8). The yellow lines are pathways that criss-crossed the land and another one follows the boundary wall of the property. 12, 13 (hidden at top), 15 and 16 were meadows probably used for cattle grazing. Either 15 or 16 was later known as Bradys Field (around the 1940s) - thanks to Eileen Sweeneys archive. A gate and pathway is shown here leading from Church Avenue into fields 15 and 16 and at time of this sketch were probably leased out to local farmers. This path later became the locally named Cinder Path and now forms an access pathway onto St Mobhí Bóithrín.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 22:20:44 +0000
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