Category: Buildings
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The Elizabeth Vesey’s of Lucan by Aoife Tierney
Elizabeth Vesey 1715-1791 Elizabeth Vesey was the daughter of Rt. Rev. Sir Thomas Vesey, 1st Bt. and Mary Muschamp. In 1731 at 16, she married William Handcock, (son of /William Handcock and Susan Warburton) who died in 1741. In 1746, she married her cousin, Agmondisham Vesey, (son of Rt. Hon.…
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A survey of Lucan from 1680! Can you help us recognise anything?
By Helen Farrell & Aoife Tierney, SOL Committee. In 2021, soon after Covid restrictions lifted, I [HF] visited the National Library to access some of the Vesey Papers in the Manuscript room. I was extremely excited to find the 1699 map of Lucan, but another fascinating document was in the…