Baggot Court Townhouse
Parish of St. Anne
The Baggot Court Townhouse was constructed some time around 1829. The first person appears to have been Mr. Timothy O’Brien a Wine Merchant who became Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1844.
Mr. O’Brien purchased the property from Mr Curtis on 6th November 1829 the following is a list of persons who resided at 92 Lower Baggot Street.
1829 Mr Timothy O’Brien
1845 Major James Palmer
1850 Mrs Finnucane
1858 William Dean Merchant
1861 William Dean Merchant & Edward Dean Esq.
1862 William Dean & Son Wholesale Manufacturers
1865 Miss Fennell
1873 Mr John Scott
1874 Mrs Fennell Scott Professor of Singing
1907 Sarah Brennan & Apartments
1920 Let in Flats
1944 Dr Michael O’Higgins
1965 Mrs F Jones
1976 Jeremiah Higgins
1983 Kathleen O’Higgins
1991 Timothy Wyse
1992 Flats
1993 Vacant
1997 Baggot Court Townhouse
Local History
 The birthplace of Francis Bacon (painter) sits directly across the street at
62 Lower Baggot Street. Francis Bacon was born at 62 Lower Baggot Street, the son of an Irish born mother and an Australian-born English father.Captain Anthony Edward Mortimer ("Eddy") Bacon, his father, was a veteran of the Boer War who became a racehorse trainer. Christina Winifred "Winnie" Firth, his mother, was an heiress to a Sheffield steel business and coal mine.
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