[1] It consists of two storeys over a basement; the front has seven bays, flanked by two wide curved bows, and is further prolonged by single-storey one-bay wings.

[3] It is said the house was so named as Beresford's son was marrying a girl from Abbeville in France.

In 2003, after his retirement and disgrace, Haughey sold it to Manor Park Homes, which intended to redevelop it after his death, which occurred in 2006.

[2] It was purchased in 2013 by the Japanese Nishida family, owners of the Toyoko Inn hotel group.

Under the previous property tax regime, it was possible for Abbeville to be exempt if the house was open one day a year, a requirement fulfilled by events on the annual Irish Cancer Society Daffodil Day; the much more extensive opening required to avoid inheritance tax was not done.