Category: 18th century history
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Two hogsheads of claret and a pair of silk stockings
A ledger for Lucan Manor by Agmondisham Vesey (the elder) – by Elaine Hurley, SOL. Searching archives online can throw up intriguing documents in unexpected places, such as this listing I spotted last year in the archive of Columbia University, New York, USA: Account book showing receipts and expenditures of…
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Lucan Lodge by Barry Mahady
Out of general interest I decided this morning that I would do some light research into Lucan Lodge, a Georgian House that is currently a nursing home in the centre of the Ardeevin Housing Estate, at the back of the Ball Alley Pub. This was largely prompted by Helen Farrell’s…
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Gothic Lucan: part 2 by Jonathan Cully
Early Gothic Revival and Romanticism. From the late 1740’s, the predominance of Neo Classical design during the Age of Enlightenment and increasing industrialisation led to the emergence of Early Gothic Revival and later Romanticism in England; this would very quickly have spread to Ireland, as families like the Vesey’s of…
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LOST AND FOUND IN LUCAN
Saunders’s News-Letter 07 July 1779 “Lost, between Lucan and Cellbridge, a small Silver Watch, with Gold Hands, made by John Dalrymple, Dublin, No. 85. Whoever has found it and brings it to the Printer hereof shall have two Guineas Reward, and no Questions asked. It is requested if offered for…