Jonathan Cully of SOL Committe has mapped out the development stages of Sarsfield Park in the image below.
Very interestingly, each stage was nick-named after an international conflict, at the time of construction.
Lucan was experiencing a population boom at the time. When Sarsfield Park was being built, there was huge demand to get a house in the first phase; in what later became known as the “Congo”.
Tension rose among those who didn’t manage to get a house and some of those who did, received strongly worded letters, signed off “from the Congo”. [Jonathan Cully]
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