Our History

Charleville Lodge, 268-272 Rathdowne Terrace, North Circular Road, is situated in the parish of Grangegorman (formed 1828 from parts of the parishes of St. Michan’s and St. Paul’s).

The North Circular Road which extends for three miles from the Phoenix Park to Portland Row was laid down in 1763.

Nos. 1-3 Rathdown Terrace, renumbered 268-272 c. 1915, was built as part of a terrace of six residences by Henry Hoban, 4 Cumberland Place, N.C.R., under a lease granted on the 4^th August 1891 by the Right Honorable Charles Stanley, Viscount Monck (Earl of Rathdowne – title extinct) of 78 Belgrave Road, London, and the Honorable Henry Power Charles Stanley Monck of ‘Charleville’, Enniskerry, late Captain in the Coldstream Guards. Viscount Monck was M.P. for Portsmouth 1852-57 and Governer General of Canada 1861-67.

John Dillon Nugent, elected Secretary of the Ancient Order of Hibernians 1904 (Board of Erin) and elected member of the Northern Parliament 1920, lived in No. 272 from 1917-40. The offices of Grafton Publications and Monument Press, publishers of Model Housekeeping (Ireland’s national women’s magazine), Maeve’s Own (Ireland’s only girls’ paper) and The Irish Golfer’s Blue Book were located at No. 270 from 1941-1969.

On the 20^th January 1994, Anne and Val Stenson welcomed their first guests to Charleville Lodge.