School: Presentation Convent, Lucan
- Location:
- Lucan, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Sr M. Gabriel
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0794, Page 70
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- (continued from previous page)which was erected by Hely Hutchinson, a Provost of Trinity College.
The remaining residences of prominence on the northern side of the High road between Palmerstown and Lucan were built in or about the period of Grattans Parliament. At Irishtown are the remains of a castle which must have antedated the Castles of Ballyowen and Ballydowd but records cannot now be found.
- The manor and castle of Lucan appear to have passed into the possession of the Sarsfield family early in the 16th century. In 1629 a patent was granted by King Charles 1 for delivery of the property of Sir William Sarsfield of Lucan in the County of Dublin to William his grandson and heir. This william Sarsfield (who was the elder brother of the celebrated General Patrick, who negotiated the Treaty of Limerick and fell at the battle of Londen) married(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Ronan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Chapel Hill, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Mr J. Brady
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Main Street, Co. Dublin
