placenamesBeaumont
The former country home of Arthur Guinness became part of a landscape of convalescence and hospital care.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Beaumont · Irish · main form · validated name
- Beaumont · English · main form
Place & story
Arthur Guinness at Beaumont
Arthur Guinness bought Beaumont House in 1764. The architectural inventory records the family’s ownership continuing until 1855. The eighteenth-century house has a symmetrical five-bay front, a hipped slate roof and a Doric entrance porch, with a balcony above. Later extensions changed its scale, but its original block and remaining grounds still mark the former country residence within the suburban district. This historic house is distinct from the nearby public house carrying the Beaumont House name. [2]
A home for convalescence
The Sisters of Mercy took over the house around 1900 and enlarged it for a convalescent home, which opened in 1902. Their additions included classical stone door surrounds and a niche containing a statue of Our Lady of Mercy. The adaptation connected a domestic estate with institutional nursing, preserving much of the old house’s form while adding accommodation behind and beside it. [2]
The icehouse in the grounds
An icehouse survives as another trace of Beaumont’s estate landscape. Its stone entrance leads into a passage and chamber beneath a grass-covered, corbelled rubble roof. The architectural survey relates it to the nearby house and notes its appearance on the Ordnance Survey’s third edition around 1900. Such a structure recalls the storage arrangements of a large household before electric refrigeration, even as housing and hospital buildings transformed the surrounding land. [3]
The new hospital and older institutions
The modern Beaumont Hospital opened in 1987, bringing together services from the Charitable Infirmary in Jervis Street and Saint Laurence’s, commonly called the Richmond. The Charitable Infirmary’s own trust records the transfer as a continuation of those institutions, connecting the newer suburban hospital with the history of care in the city centre. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Beaumont. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Beaumont House, NIAH 50130235 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Beaumont House icehouse, NIAH 50130233 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Beaumont Hospital · Charitable Infirmary Charitable Trust
- Beaumont House public house, Shantalla Road, Beaumont illustration: based on a Beaumont House by sarah gallagher. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0; adapted illustration distributed under the same licence.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-02-17. How this page was prepared.