Category: Logainmneacha
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The placename of Lucan: it’s not “The Place of the Elms”
Helen Farrell Years ago, I looked up “elm” in my Foclóir and read that it was “leamhán” in Irish. The marsh-mallow plant that grows wild, down by the Liffey, was “leamhacán” in Irish, and far closer to our spelling of the area. This stayed in the back of my mind…
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The “Congo” in Lucan: Sarsfield Park names.
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…