Mansions and Monuments Rare Book

Mansions and Monuments – People and Places of bygone Passage West and Monkstown.

Limited Collector’s Edition: No.279 of only 300 copies printed. Monkstown, Rosmathun Press, 2011. Quarto. XI, 420 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This is an extremely rare book !!
Includes chapters like:

Passage [West] and the Sea / The Rockenham Area / The Carrigmahon Area / The Toureen Area / The Monkstown Pier Area / Passage [West] Centre / The Monkstown Village Area / The Church Hill Ares / The Monkstown Castle Area / The Ferry Point Area / Strand Road / The Glenbrook Area / The First World War /

Appendix 1: The Monkstown Graveyard
Appendix 2: Marmullane Churchyard Gravestone Inscriptions
Appendix 3: Memorials in St.John’s Church, Monkstown and in Marmullane Church
Appendix 4: Passage West and Monkstown Marriage, Birth and Death notices

Pictorial Section with 16 pages of photographs and two maps.
The photographs show important Houses of the Area: Laurel Hill House / Ardmanagh on the Hill above Glenbrook / Carrigmahon House / Castle House / Ballymot House / Rockenham House overlooking the Lee / Rocklodge House / Whalebone Arch at Rocklodge / Rookhurst House (now Ashleam) / Rockville House, near Glenbrook / Waterview House, the ancestral Home of the Parker Family /

Further images show Glenbrook and its Pier from the Monkstown Road (circa 1890) / The Hayes family in front of Mansfield House (circa 1920) / The Glen at Glenbrook / Castle Square, Monkstown, East Side (circa 1900), Castle Square, Monkstown, West Side (circa 1900) / Pembroke House, the ancestral Home of the Boland Family (circa 1900) /

Further image shows: Crowd gathering at the American Hotel, Passage [West] following the inquest on Thomas Green, January 1894 / Glenbrook with railway line in front (circa 1910)

Including two maps which show locations of Houses and Public Buildings.
Keywords: Catalogue Irish History Five – Local Irish History · Catalogue Irish History Three – From Famine to Free State · County Cork · Irish History – Rare · Irish Local History · Irish Local Traditions · Monkstown · Monkstown (County Cork) · Passage West
Language: English