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LOST BUILDINGS OF GREYSTONES

have been called Prospect, a restaurant run by Henry Joseph
Evans in 1908. John Hughes Lewis is recorded in 1922 as
proprietor of a Hotel and Restaurant on Trafalgar Road, called
initially the Central Hotel and then Lewis’s Hotel. John was born
in Essex, England and in 1911 was a Catering Manager, living in
Dublin. He was married to Kathleen Lewis. He died in August
1932. The hotel was owned later by Edward F Fleming, who died
in 1946. He was married to Margaret (Orse Rita) Fleming. It
eventually became a boarding school before being demolished
in 1972 to make way for St Brigid’s primary school on Trafalgar
Road.

Greystones Golf Club

Greystones Golf Club was originally a nine-hole golf course
laid out, on part of the Burnaby Estate, in 1895, the same year
the first Pavilion House was built for the club. This was also the
year that the first professional golf tournament took place in
Ireland. The owners of the Grand Hotel established the club. The
Golf Club was extended in 1914 when extra land was purchased
and in the same year Mr. Bonar Law, the Prime Minister of Great
Britain, played Golf in Greystones. Between 1945 and 1969 the
president of the club was Lord Glenavy.

The Pavilion House was a timber structure, developed by
Robert Harpur in a colonial style, and was entered at the end of
Pavilion Road off Whitshed Road in the Burnaby. It was
extended before 1926 in a similar style, but unfortunately was
burnt down circa 1980 and was subsequently demolished. Today
the clubhouse is located in what was Killincarrig House, the
original Whitshed family home.

Walkers Garage, Church Road

A red brick garage located where Mrs. Robinson’s bar is

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