Lucania

Lucan I. - Clondalkin Parish. In the County Dublin there is not a fairer spot than Lucan and its surroundings. Here nature does a ho...

X. - St. Catherine's, Owen Roe O'Neill and Cardinal Rinuccini. In the western side of Lucan is the famous St. Catherine's. There is a well ...

XI. - Leixlip and St. Catherine's. Silken Thomas. Leixlip is another boundary of Lucan. A gate lodge of the Castle is the last house on thi...

XII. - Murder of Dr. Allen, Archbishop of Dublin. On the committal of the Earl of Kildare to the Tower the enemies of the Geraldines used e...

XIV. - Confey. Confey is another boundary line between the Lucan and Leixlip districts. It joins Lucan at "Pass-if-you-can," the lands of ...

XIII. - St. Catherine's Well. Suppression of Holy wells. In 1707 the Union between England and Scotland was effected. The agitation which a...

XVII. - Visits of His Grace, the Most Rev. Dr. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, to Lucan. 1. The Consecration of a new Bell, 3rd November 189...

III. - Lucan, A Sanatorium. One of the chief attractions of Lucan is its Spa." The Old Spa is right opposite the Catholic Church. In the la...

XV. Luttrellstown. Is another of the Lucan boundaries. It is now called Woodlands, and is the property of Lord Annally. It is one of the mo...

II. - Lucan Parochial District. The Parochial District of Lucan is bounded on the North by Coldblow and Pass-if-you-can on the frontiers of...

XVI. - Donoughmore House, Palmerstown, Now the Stewart Institution for Imbeciles. Lord Donoughmore, Lord Lieutenant of Tipperary, died...

IV. - Murder of Fr. M'Carthy (MacCartney?), Trial of the Murderers. It will be interesting to record from a contemporary paper all that c...

V. - Palmerstown. Lord Palmerston died on the 18th October, 1865. Up to his death he was Prime Minister of England. He was an Irish Peer. He...

VI. - Esker Esker, "a ridge of hills," is so called from being part of the Great Causeway which, in the third century, was constituted betw...

VII. Archbishop Lynch. Not the least of Lucan's glories is that here the future Archbishop of Toronto said his first prayers, learned his f...

VIII. - The Sarsfields. The name of the glorious Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, is inseparably connected with the history of the district. Lucan...

This is a deeply flawed book which deliberately confuses local history with the history of the Roman Catholic Church in the area. The final chapt...

IX. - Vindication of Sarsfield. The reputation of Sarsfield did not escape the lash of the bigot. Lord Macaulay, with an ingenuity peculiar...