Category: Gentry
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SOL historical tour of Lucan Demesne with Paul Butler, Sat 14 Oct 23.
The next guided historical tour around Lucan Demesne by SOL volunteers will be this Sat 14 Oct 2023, with historical photographer & drone operator Paul Butler guiding and local historian Elaine Hurley doing check in and assisting. Paul will take you through the history, mysteries and new discoveries we’ve made…
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Woodville House Archive: an update from Dave Power, SDCC Local Studies
Last year I reported here about Lucan’s Woodville House Archive which had, over the years, ended up in Yorkshire in the custody of a descendant of the Scott family who offered us the archive. I can now report its arrival in Tallaght Library, and can share some random examples 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…
