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Chesterfield House, Booterstown, Co. Dublin
WILLIAMSTOWN Chesterfield House is located on Cross Avenue, midway between Booterstown and Blackrock. When the house was first built, it lay in a village, now swallowed up by the city, called Williamstown. Even in 1847, the Parliamentary Gazetteer noted how the housing here ‘extends along the road in an almost continuous manner from the village of Booterstown to […]