placenamesMerrion
Muirfin
Chesterfield preserves an older interior within a repeatedly altered house in the Booterstown townland of Merrion.
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
- Muirfin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Merrion · English · main form
Place & story
An older room within a rebuilt house
Chesterfield House began in the early nineteenth century and was remodelled around 1880. Mary Kennelly’s 2026 planning inspection records that rebuilding around 1970 retained the drawing room inside a substantially changed house. The room, itself altered over time, therefore provides continuity without making the surrounding building an unchanged early residence. The report distinguishes its L-shaped interior and upper-ground-floor position from later construction. [2]
A room facing the grounds
The drawing room overlooks Chesterfield’s southern grounds. Kennelly describes a central path framed by two tall cedars, with views across lawns and an ornamental pond towards a meadow. A summer house also survives beside the house. These features explain the relationship between the interior and its setting. Her inspection found the formal garden overgrown; the account records its condition in 2026 rather than promising access or describing completed restoration. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Civil parish
- Booterstown
- Within
- Blackrock-Booterstown
- Coordinates
- 53.29849, -6.19708
- Logainm ID
- 17492 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Merrion. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Chesterfield, Merrion townland: inspector’s report ACP-324043-26, pages 5 and 89–92 · Mary Kennelly, An Coimisiún Pleanála, 2026
- Merrion townland in Booterstown parish and Rathdown barony · Townlands.ie / OpenStreetMap contributors
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.