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  • Lucan’s Gothic & Gothic Revival Architecture by Jonathan Cully, SOL.

    Lucan’s Gothic & Gothic Revival Architecture by Jonathan Cully, SOL.

    Lucan has a fantastic array of Gothic Architecture which ranges from original medieval Gothic features through to the Early Gothic Revival period, the later Victorian Neo Gothic period, and beyond with lingering flourishes in the mid-20th century. Lucan’s gothic architecture can be found in a variety of settings from original medieval churches to Gothic Revival… Read more

  • St Edmundsbury Hospital by Joe Byrne

    St Edmundsbury Hospital by Joe Byrne

    Lucan St Edmundsbury House and Demesne was acquired as a branch of St Patrick’s Hospital James Street in 1898. [Editor’s note: St. Edmundsbury started off life as just “Edmundspery” after its owner “Edmund S. Pery” who was an Anglo-Irish politician. Edmund Sexton Pery was the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons in the late… Read more

  • Lucan and 1798: the story of the Lynch brothers by Helen Farrell

    The sons of the owner of The Orange Tree, a late 18th century pub in Lucan village, Thomas (jnr.) and Patrick Lynch, were both heavily involved in the 1798 Rebellion. We think the location of The Orange Tree may be where Kenny’s Pub is now, but we are still researching this, and would welcome any… Read more

  • BEWLEY AVENUE, LUCAN: What’s in a name? – by Barry Mahady

    BEWLEY AVENUE, LUCAN: What’s in a name? – by Barry Mahady

    Last week I stood in Lucan Garda Station looking at an old map of Lucan on the wall. I couldn’t help noticing how much the landscape has changed in Ballyowen from rural hinterland to a major residential district. The latter half of the 20th century saw a population flight from the four corners of the… Read more

  • Woodville House Archive: an update from Dave Power, SDCC Local Studies

    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 what is contained in the… Read more

  • Two hogsheads of claret and a pair of silk stockings

    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 the Vesey family at Lucan,… Read more