Laraghcon

Area

1,781 m²

Buildings

3 buildings touch it, 1,573 m² on the ground

Zoning

G3 HA-LV (South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective
C2.1 EE (South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective

Townland

Laraghcon

Planning applications on this parcel

• 15 Jul 2025Grant permission

  Change of use from furniture shop and window shop/showroom to a multi-functional space to include a place of worship and community centre (with ancillary office space);Minor internal alterations to layouts and alterations to the elevations to facilitate the change of use; The provision of car parking spaces and bicycle spaces and; All associated landscaping and site development works. The subject site includes a Protected Structure (Steward's Crafts - Record No. 020).

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD25A/0065W

• 29 Nov 2024Grant permission

  The overall site includes a Protected Structure (Steward's Crafts - Record No. 020), Units 39-40, Hills Industrial Estates, Lower Lucan Road, Co. Dublin. The proposed development will consist of:- Change of use from gym to wholesale outlet and local shop;- Minor alterations to the elevations to facilitate the change of use;- The provision of car parking spaces, bicycle spaces and a loading bay for deliveries and;- All associated site development works.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD24A/0181W

• 28 Jan 2015Grant extension of duration of permission

  (1) Demolition of 2 no. warehouses Units No. 33 and No. 34; (2) removal of external stair core at Units. 39/40 and creation of 4 no. new windows opes on south and east elevation and internal alterations to building at rear of Protected Structure; (3) 2 no. storey (over lower ground floor car park level) commercial building consisting of 1 no. commercial unit and ancillary office over; (4) 1 no. storey (over lower ground floor car park level) restaurant unit ancillary services and an open courtyard deck to connect; (5) upgrade of existing windows and entrance door of Unit No. 40 (Protected Structure); (6) provision of car park and bin storage at lower ground floor level; (7) permission for signage as indicated; (8) all ancillary site works.

  Extension of duration of permission · South Dublin County Council, SD09A/0233/EP

• 14 Aug 2012Grant permission

  Change of use of existing light industrial unit within the curtilage of a Protected Structure (RPS016), to ecclesiastical use to include a place of Christian worship with ancillary study rooms together with alterations to front and rear elevations.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD12A/0167

• 1 Oct 2010Grant permission

  Temporary permission (5 years) for change of use of portion of an existing furniture shop to cafe. The furniture shop is located adjoining the Protected Structure (Steward's Crafts - Record No. 020), and the access to Unit 40 is gained through the Protected Structure.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD10A/0296

• 2 Feb 2010Grant permission

  (1) Demolition of 2 no. warehouses Units No. 33 and No. 34; (2) removal of external stair core at Units. 39/40 and creation of 4 no. new windows opes on south and east elevation and internal alterations to building at rear of Protected Structure; (3) 2 no. storey (over lower ground floor car park level) commercial building consisting of 1 no. commercial unit and ancillary office over; (4) 1 no. storey (over lower ground floor car park level) restaurant unit ancillary services and an open courtyard deck to connect; (5) upgrade of existing windows and entrance door of Unit No. 40 (Protected Structure); (6) provision of car park and bin storage at lower ground floor level; (7) permission for signage as indicated; (8) all ancillary site works.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD09A/0233

• 20 Apr 2009Withdraw the application

  (1) The demolition of 2 no. warehouses Unit nos. 33 and 34; (2) the removal of external stair core at Units 39/40 and creation of 4 no. new window opes on south and east elevation and internal alterations to building at rear of protected structure; (3) the construction of 2 storey (over lower ground floor car park level) commercial building consisting of 1 no. commercial unit and ancillary office over; (4) the construction of 1 storey (over lower ground floor car park level) restaurant unit and ancillary services and an open courtyard deck to connect; (5) the upgrade of existing windows and entrance door of Unit no. 40 (Protected Structure); (6) the provision of car park and bin storage at lower ground floor level; (7) permission for signage as indicated; (8) all ancillary site works, all at Unit Nos. 33, 34, 39 and 40.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD09A/0159

• 8 Oct 2002Refuse permission

  Additional storey over an existing flat roof industrial unit to accommodate a new open plan office, construct a new front entrance and associated staircase and all ancillary works.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD02A/0586

• 11 May 2001Grant permission

  Replacement & enclosure of external staircase.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, S01A/0286

• 30 Nov 1999Grant permission

  Two storey industrial building area circa 118 sq. Mts., Height 6.2 Mts.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, S99A/0654

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Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 12 recorded monuments.

• DU017-017 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Site of Sunday Well formerly located at the entrance into Hillsboro (Ó Danachair 1958, 82). Now a gated entrance to a tree-lined avenue west of a row of Victorian cottages. No surface remains visible. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 17 April 2023

• DU017-019 Historic town
  Description

  Around the year 1185 the Ormond Deeds recorded that; 'Alard, son of William was the first feoffee of the manor of Leuekan [Lucan] and of all the other lands named in the charters in Ireland by the donation of King John, then Lord of Ireland : for King Richard his brother, and him then. Alard had a daughter who was his heir who was called Cecily de Langetot, and this daughter was married to Sir Baldwin de Coudrei, which Baldwin begat Fouke de Coudrei on this Cecily, and the said Fouke begat Sir Pires de Coudrei who now demands the land' (Curtis 1932, 4, No. 7). In the year 1203-04 'Werrick Pecchie [Peche] renders his account of 40 marks and a palfrey [war horse], for having the K.'s confirmation of his land of Liuican [Lucan] in Ireland' (Cal. doc. Ire., Vol. 1, 30, No. 192). In January of the same year the calendars recorded the 'Confirmation to Wyrrys Peche of Alard Fitz William's gift in fee of his land of Liuekan' (ibid. No. 197). The Urban Survey of Dublin (Bradley and King 1988, 251-3) recorded the following details about the medieval manorial borough of Lucan; 'Situated at the junction of the river Griffeen with the Liffey, Lucan is one of the few medieval boroughs in the county which does not have a history before the coming of the Normans and which was not founded by the archbishops of Dublin. It was initially granted to Alard FitzWilliam but by 1204 he had given it to Warrisius de Pech in whose family the manor and borough was to remain for much of the thirteenth century (Ball 1902-20, iv, 36).The first borough does not occur until the early fourteenth century but it is likely that the borough itself was established shortly after the Norman takeover. The Ormond deeds preserve document of 1316 in which David Styward granted to Robert de Notyngham: "one burgage in Lucan lying between the burgages formerly belonging to William Styward and Robert de Notton stretching in length from the high street (regia strata) of the town to the water of Avenlyffe" (Curtis 1932-43, 1, no. 518). This document is important because, despite some hints to the contrary (D'Alton 1838, 331), it indicates that the modern Main Street is on the site of its Predecessor. The settlement never seems to have been great economic importance and was essentially a manorial borough. During the later middle ages it was held by the FitzGerald earls of Kildare. Shortly after their fall from favour, in the aftermath of the Silken Thomas rebellion, it was bought by Sir William Sarsfield and it remained in the hands of his family until the middle of the seventeenth century. Dispossessed by Cromwell, however, the Sarsfields were not reinstated until the reign of Janes II, just in time, indeed, for Patrick Sarsfield to be created earl of Lucan. The village rose to prominence again in 1758 when a spa was discovered here and Lucan was much frequented as a health resort during the late eighteenth century. By the early nineteenth century, however, even this had declined and it was not until this century that Lucan began to expand as a dormitory town of Dublin. STREETS & STREET PATTERN The street plan of the borough was essentially linear and consisted simply of one Principal street, Main Street. The fourteenth century document quoted above makes it clear that the burgage plots stretched from the street back to the river and the 0.5. naps show a complementary pattern on the south side of the street. The parish church seems to have been located at the western end of the borough and to have been somewhat isolated from it. MARKET PLACE This would appear to have been linear and to have existed in the wide part of Main Street BRIDGE (DU017-016----) This is first mentioned, as far as we have been able to ascertain, in the seventeenth century (Ball 1902-20, iv, 43). The absence of flanking burgage plots along Bridge Street indicates that it is an insertion and was not part of the original pattern. MILL (DU017-019009-) A watermill is frequently mentioned in association with the manor of Lucan, for instance in the grant of the manor to Maurice, fourth earl of Kildare, in 1386 (D'Alton 1838 329). The manorial mill seems to have been located at Lutterelstown, however, rather than at Lucan (Curtis 1932-43, i, no 747). CASTLE As the centre of a manor Lucan would have had a castle which was probably located in the vicinity of the present Lucan House unless it is to be equated with the earthwork south of the town. The residential tower attached to the church has been mistaken by virtually all previous writers for the castle. Little is known of its history until the seventeenth century when, while it was in the possession of Sir Theophilus Jones, was described as one of the fairest houses in Co. Dublin, and it contained twelve hearths (Ball 1902-20, iv, 43)'. See attached Down Survey map of Newcastle Barony showing 'Lucan house' adjacent to the medieval road flanked on either side by a row of dwellings representing the medieval village of Lucan alongside the medieval parish church, courtesy of the Library of Trinity College. See attached Taylor's Map of Dublin showing the village of Lucan, the Old Mill, the Bridge (DU017-019007-) crossing the River Liffey. Taylor, J. 1816 Taylor's map of the environs of Dublin: extending 10 to 14 miles from the castle, by actual survey, on a scale of 2 inches to one mile. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 8 may 2023

• DU017-019001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The residential tower attached to the N side of St Mary's church (DU017-019002-) at Lucan, was mistakenly identified as the medieval castle of Lucan. In 1702/03 a gentleman called John Green submitted a claim No. 1984 at Chichester House, College Green, Dublin, for an interest in a lease of 31 years, dated 25th of March 1700 by a deed dated the 9th of January 1699 against the property described as the 'Castle, and great white house at Lucan, the Land called the wood and several other premises' which was the property of Patrick Sarsfield (Anon. 1701, 226, Claim No. 1984). This claim which was rejected suggests that the 17th-century Lucan House (DU017-019008-) was built beside or attached to the medieval castle of Lucan. The Urban Survey of Dublin (Bradley and King 1988, 254) recorded the following details about the medieval castle of Lucan; 'As the centre of a manor [DU017-019----] Lucan would have had a castle which was probably located in the vicinity of the present Lucan House unless it is to be equated with the earthwork [DU017-021001-] south of the town. The residential tower attached to the church has been mistaken by virtually all previous writers for the castle. Little is known of its history until the seventeenth century when, while it was in the possession of Sir Theophilus Jones, was described as one of the fairest houses in Co. Dublin, and it contained twelve hearths (Ball 1902-20, iv, 43)'. The house referred to as one of 'fairest houses in Co. Dublin' which contained 12 hearths refers to a 17th century gable fronted house (DU017-019008-) depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map which was probably replaced by the current Lucan House in the 18th-century. The precise location of the medieval castle of Lucan has not been identified. It has been suggested that the site of the medieval castle stood beside the present 18th-century Lucan House (Bradley and King 1988, 254; Salter 2004, 37). Salter also suggested that there was a second castle (DU017-019012-) situated in the main Street of Lucan village (ibid.). Salter (ibid.) recorded the following details about the medieval castle of Lucan; 'Agmondisham Vesey's mansion of 1772 lies beside the site of a castle probably built by Sir William Sarsfield, Mayor of Dublin after he acquired the estate upon the attainder of the 10th Earl of Kildare in 1534. During the 1650s and 60s it was held by the Cromwellian Sir Theophilus Jones but was restored to Patrick Sarsfield, who was created Viscount Tully and Earl of Lucan. A second castle site lies in Main Street at 032352'. In 1553-4 there is a reference to Lucan Castle when the Crown granted a 21 year lease to; 'Matthew King ; of the manor of Lucan, lands of Lucan and Waspayneston, county Dublin, parcel of the possessions of Gerald, earl of Kildare, attainted. (Recites that King having obtained a lease of the premises xxix. Hen. VIII., sold his interest to Osburn Itchingham, whose widow Mary conveyed (v. Ed. VI) to Richard Rede, knt., who again had conveyed to Matthew King). To hold for twenty-one years, at a rent of £30 13s. 4d. Lessee to inhabit the castle or cause it to be inhabited by liege men, who shall use the English tongue and dress, and keep no communication with the Irish' (Nicholls 1994, 298). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 23 May 2023

• DU017-019002 Church
  Description

  Located on the NE side of a semi-circular, walled graveyard on the demesne lands of Lucan (Leamhcán/marshy place) House which stands 80m to W. St. Mary's nave and chancel church ruins (ext. dims. 15.9m E-W x 6.5m N-S; int. dims. 15.1m E-W x 4.9m N-S) with residential tower on northeast angle of church forms the N boundary of the parish graveyard (DU017-019002-). The multi-period nave and chancel church with eastern residential tower accessed off the northern wall of the chancel has the remains of acoustic jars still visible in the north wall of the church which were identified by local archaeologist, Helen Farrell.  The pottery jars are still in situ, set into small circular-shaped holes visible in the northern wall of the church and this survival may be unique in Ireland.  The holes for acoustic jars have been identified in St. Mary's Collegiate Church (CO067-029003-) in Youghal, Co. Cork, but the pottery jars no longer survive in the Youghal church.  According to Wikipedia; ‘An acoustic jar, also known by the Greek name echea (ηχεία, literally echoers), or sounding vases, are ceramic vessels found set into the walls, ceilings, and sometimes floors, of medieval churches. They are believed to have been intended to improve the sound of singing. In the Middle Ages the idea of the acoustic vessel re-emerged. Examples have been found in around 200 churches, about half of them in France’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_jar).  According to Valière (2013, 70); 'From the 10th to 16th centuries and even later, the practice of using acoustical pots as a common feature in church architecture spread throughout Europe'.    The 1302-07 Ecclesiastical Taxation of the Deanery of Taney [Tanehey] valued Lucan Church at £20 per annum with the tithe valued at 40s. (Cal. doc. Ire., vol. 5, 239). The vicarage of Lucan belonged to the Cistercian Abbey of St. Mary's (DU018-020048-) while the rectory of Lucan belonged to the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas (DU018-020051-). In 1268 the 'confirmation of a charter of grant by Wyrreys Peche to the church of St. Catherine near the Salmon Leap, to Brother William, called of Kil its prior his successors, and its canons regular, of the following lands and liberties' included the; 'the church of St. Mary of Liuekan [Lucan], so far as belongs to tlhe patron, for their maintenance and the reception of guests and poor, of the tithe of Wyreys's, bread, beer, meat, and fish; and of the liberties enjoyed by his free tenants in his common of pasture and wood without his preserves, in the manor of Lucan' (Cal. doc. Ire., vol. 2, 135, No. 842). This grant was witnessed by 'Henry Archbishop of Dublin, P[eter] Bishop of Ossory, R[alph] Bishop of Kildare, the Abbot of St. Thomas, Dublin, Wiliam Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Stephen and Godfrey of Hereford, John de Powic, Milo le Bret, Roger parson of Lucan, Hugh de Braunton, constable of Lucan' (ibid.). In 1279, Henry Serle was appointed to the, 'vacant church of Liuekan Lucan] belonging to the K[ing]'s gift by reason of the lands and heirs of Wiliam Pecche, deceased being in the K[ing].s hand. Letters thereupon to the bailiffs of the Archbishop of Dublin' (Cal. doc. Ire., vol. 2, 327, no. 1623). In 1539 the Crown granted Patrick Clyncher, Clerk of the Organ of the abbey of St. Thomas, 'of a pension of £5, issuing from lands in the parish of Donaghmore by Grenoke, and from the rectory of Lucan; confirming a grant of the said pension with certain easements, made by the abbot and convent of St. Thomas the Martyr [DU018-020051-]' (Nicholls 1994, 15).   In 1540-1 at the Dissolution of the Monasteries the possessions of the Rectory of Lucan were granted to the earl of Kildare and after the Kildare Rebellion these possessions were taken from the earl of Kildare and granted to Thomas Luttrell and Patrick Barnewall. The monastic possession were described as follows; 'a moiety of the tithes gra[i]n, of this r[ectory]. with the r. of Rathmore near Lennagh, Ballaghmone [Kildare], Moynnehennok [Kildare], Strabo [Laois], Moycon [Carlow] and Koulkcoure [Coolkerry, Laois], and a moiety of the tithes of Monehenocke, were leased to Gerald earl of Kildare for 8. li. On his attainder for high treason, these tithes came into the king's hands, and were granted by him to Sir Thomas Lutterell and Patrick Barnewell for rent of 8. li. to the monastery and 20.s. to the king, total, 9. li. The other moiety of the tithes of Lucan is leased by the monastery per ind. p.t.a. [by induenture for a term of years] to Patrick Clyncher for 106.s. 8.d. The advowson of the r[ectory]. of Lucan is the king's' (White 1943, 29-30). In 1543 the Crown granted a 21 year lease to 'Thomas Lutrell, of Lutrelliston, knight; of the site of the hospital of St. John the Baptist [DU018-020062-], without the New gate of Dublin, lands in Dublin and suburbs' (Nicholls 1994, 42) which included lands in Lucan. A condition of the lease stated that '£9 is allowed for the repair of the chancels' (ibid. 43). In 1553-4 the Crown granted a 21 year lease to; 'John Goldsmyth, of Dublin, gent.; of a moiety of the tithe corn of the parish of Lucan and Wespaylston, estimated at ninety pecks a year, parcel of the possessions of the abbey of Thomas-court [DU018-020051-]' (Nicholls 1994, 298). In 1569 the Council of Ireland certified to Queen Elizabeth the granting of the 'manor of Lucan to sir William Sarsfield from the earl of Kildare' (Cunningham 2010, 128). In 1578 Queen Elizabeth granted English liberty to; 'John Ower, vicar of Esker and Lucan' (Nicholls 1994, 464).    The 1615 Royal Visitation of the Diocese of Dublin recorded the following details about the vicarage of Lucan which was then standing in the medieval deanery of Newcastlelyons; 'Thomas Keatinge Vicarius. Thomas Keating a reading minister resident. Ecclesia et cancella bene cum libris [church and chancel good with books]' (Ronan 1941, 27). In 1630, Archbishop Bulkeley's Visitation of Dublin recorded the following details about Lucan Church; 'The rectory is impropriate, worth besides the kings rent, x libri per annum. The church is in good repairacon, the chauncell is ruinous. There are not above five in that parish that comes to church. Thomas Keatinge, clarke, is vicar there, whose meanes there, as he certified, is not above iiii libri per annum, and whose wife is a recusant' (Ronan 1941, 72). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Dublin recorded that at; 'Lucan there is a verry faire house a Chappell some thatch houses and Cabbins and a good Stone bridge [DU017-016----] crossing the river Liffey' (Simington 1945, 290).    The Urban Survey of Dublin (Bradley and King 1988, 254-) recorded the following details about St. Mary's medieval parish church in Lucan; 'This church was in existence by c. 1219 when it granted to the Augustinian priory of St. Catherine founded by Warisius de Pech, to the west of Lucan (Ball 1902-20, iv, 55; Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 192). In 1337, after St. Catherine's was united with St Thomas Dublin (DU018-020051-), the advowson passed to this abbey and after the Dissolution it was bought up by Sir William Sarsfield. The church was kept in good repair until the end of the sixteenth century but by 1630 the chancel was ruinous (Ball 1902-20, iv, 56). The church is a simple nave and chancel structure of uncoursed rubble limestone and is missing the north wall of the nave. The west gable is almost complete and had a bellcote above a steeply pitched roof. The west window is ogee-headed twin-light with concave chamfered limestone jambs and segmental headed rear arch. There is a blocked round arched door in the west end of the south wall with a lintelled rear arch. The residential tower is on the north side of the church and is built of roughly coursed limestone. It is rectangular with three floors. The ground floor is barrel vaulted and there is a barrel vaulted annex on the east. A stair turret projects on the north side above first floor level'.  The church was entered originally through a two-centred arched doorway (blocked) at W end of S wall of nave. The nave (L 14m x Wth 5m) is lit by a cusped ogee-headed, double light W window with concave chamfered jambs and remains of a similar window in the S wall. The E end of the church (L 10.8m x Wth 5m) is lit by two late brick-lined, round headed windows placed high in the S wall. The residential tower attached to the N side is roughly square in plan with a stair turret in the NW corner. Built of roughly coursed masonry, it rises to three storeys with a vaulted annexe to the E side (int. dims. Wth 4m x L 6.5m). The tower was originally entered through a two-centred arched doorway. There is an inserted lintelled entrance in the E wall with the decorated head of a double-light ogee headed window built into the wall above it. The ground floor is vaulted on an E-W axis with traces of wicker-work centring. There is a fireplace on the ground floor in the W wall with a round-headed recess in the wall to the S of it. A lintelled entrance opens on the first floor with a small garderobe in the N wall beside it. E of this is a recess for a fireplace. The first floor is lit by large rectangular windows in the W and E walls which are built of roughly dressed limestone. The second floor is also vaulted. The entrance to the corbelled chamber in the NE tower is round-headed. Fireplace in the E wall. The stairs continue to parapet level. A chimney stands in the centre of the N wall (Dix 1897, 36; Ball 1902-20, IV, 43). The castle or residential tower attached to the N side of the church was described in 1897 as follows; 'The castle consists of a square with two projections. The present entrance door is evidently modern, and the only old doorway in this castle is the one between it and the attached chapel, now built up, but the arch of which is apparent, both on the castle side and the chapel side. The stone steps leading to the top of the castle are situate in the small projecting tower, as shown in the diagram. The other projection contains small chambers, according to the different floors. On the ground floor, in the wall opposite the present entrance, are some recesses, rather suggestive of ecclesiastical uses than of anything else. In the small chamber off the ground floor, some of the old wattles still remain embedded in the mortar of the roof. The first floor is intact; it is lighted by several windows, and has also a fireplace. The floor of the second storey has disappeared, but it is covered by what at first sight, when one first steps out on it, appears a flat roof, but which is very probably the floor of another storey, as on one side the battlements rise much higher than is usually the case, and have two openings like windows, but so covered with ivy as not to be easily examined further. On this top floor there is also a small chamber, occurring in each of the other floors below. Nearly the whole of the tower is closely covered with ivy. The internal measurements of the first floor are, 12 ft. 8 in. in width by 19 ft. 2 in. in length. The stair turret rises several feet above the top of the castle, and the idea is rather suggested that it once rose still higher, being reached by some stone steps. The immediate proximity of the chapel or church, which is actually built against the castle on the south side, is remarkable, and the communication between the two by a doorway suggests that this chapel was a private one for the convenience of the owner of the castle. Mr. Reid, Col. Vesey's steward, takes great interest in the antiquities of the demesne and the family. He stated that, in his opinion, there were originally four towers connected by a wall, and added that, at one time during the digging of some ground between the castle and the river, a great many bones were turned up. There are three narrow windows in the west wall and two in the south wall. In 1609, Sir Wm. Sarsfield was seized of the manor, " two castles," &c. It would be of interest to know where the second castle is — perhaps where Mr. Hill's Woollen Mills now are [vide Ordnance Sheet.] In 1667, Sir Theophilus Jones obtained by patent the manor "castle," dec, of Lucan; and in 1700, one John Green claimed a subinterest in the "castle" and great white house at Lucan, but failed to prosecute his claim'.   Lucan Church ruins were described by Ní Mharcaigh (1997, 271-2) as follows; 'The west front resembles that of Esker in that a buttress on each side of a central window continues upward to form a segmental arch over the window, and higher still, to support a bellcote for two bells, although only half of the bellcote survives. A string course decorates the buttresses in two places and is repeated over the window arch. A putlog hole in this wall, to the south of the window, is not visible from inside. It is about 2m from the ground and continues a row of three putlog holes at the same level in the south wall. Three further putlog holes are visible in the gable, between the window and the bellcote. The west window is a two-light one under a round-arch hood on the outside and a segmental, almost flat-headed embrasure on the inside. Each light is trefoiled and ogee-headed, hollow-chamfered and cusped. The central mullion is hollow-chamfered and is grooved with holes for five glazing bars, matched by holes in the sides of the frame. The south wall, 15.9m long, has a vertical break at 7.6m from the west. Whether or not this marks a chancel arch is not certain in the absence of the opposing north wall. The row of three putlog holes already mentioned occurs in this westerly part of the wall, with a fourth below the central one. A gallery may be indicated. A blocked up doorway, 1.2m wide, narrowing slightly to the ground, has a pointed segmental arch on the outside and a lintelled head on the inside. East of the break in the wall is a blocked-up two-light window of which only the upper part remains, under a straight hood moulding. The mullion, sides and sill are missing. Each light had an ogee head with hollow-chamfered and roll mouldings and a pair of spandrels decorated with shallow-cut leaves. There is no trace of the window on the inside of the wall. Whether or not the window is now in its position is therefore conjectural. The north wall of the church is missing except for about 1m adjoining the west wall, within the Italian embassy grounds. Site of the east wall. The east wall of the church has been displaced by the west wall of a house that was built on to the south wall of a medieval tower house. The tower is three storeys high with a stair turret projecting on the north side and an annex projecting on the east. It is not connected to the church at any point and does not appear to have had any function as a belfry. The two-light ogee-headed west window indicates a fifteenth-century date for this church and the head of the north blocked window would fit in with this date'.  Compiled by:  Caimin O'Brien Date of Compilation: 01 December 2025

• DU017-019003 Graveyard
  Description

  St Mary's medieval parish church ruins (DU017-019002-) forms the N boundary of Lucan graveyard (dims. 29m N-S x 62m E-W), on the demesne lands of Lucan House (DU017-019008-) which stands 80m to the W. The graveyard stands on the W side of Lucan village on land that slopes down to the River Liffey located 110m to the NNW. The Griffeen River lies 50m to E running through the centre of Lucan village. Graveyard consists of a semi-circular shaped area with post-1700 memorial stones enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate at E accessed off laneway from the village of Lucan. Medieval window mullion from St Mary's Church reused as a grave-marker to W of church close to boundary wall of graveyard. In 1881 the Report of The Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland, For the Period 1869-80 listed 'No. 25 - Lucan Burial Ground' in Appendix No. 8 which was a Schedule of Burial Grounds situate in Private Demesnes, vested by The Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland, by direction of the Lord Lieutenant in Council, in the Owners of such Demesnes, pursuant to the 26th section of “The Irish Church Act, 1869”. This report recorded that on the 6th of December 1875 the Irish Church Temporalities Commission vested 'Lucan Burial Ground' to; 'Charles W. Hamilton, and Jas. R. Gordon, and Heirs'. In 1889 the 17th Annual report of the Local Government Board recorded under order No. 31, that 'Orders have been made and gazetted prohibiting further interments in the burial grounds named hereunder, which included 'The Chapel burial ground at Lucan, in the Celbridge Union'. In 1922 the August 12th edition of the Irish Builder and Engineer listed an advertisement for tenders invited for 'The Celbridge No. 2 Rural District council invite tenders before the 26th for the repair of the boundary walls of the burial grounds at Esker, Lucan, Loughtown, Newcastle and Saggart'. Anon. 1881 Report of The Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland, For the Period 1869-80. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 23 May 2023

• DU017-019004 Cross
  Description

  According to Lewis (1837, 2, 322) a cross stood opposite the entrance to Lucan House. A map of Lucan (NLI MS 39/251/3) dating from 1699 shows the cross standing to the S of the 17th-century Lucan House (DU017-019008-) standing on a bend of the road leading to Cooldrinagh (the Long Acre) with the annotation 'Here is a Cross'. Today there are so surface remains visible of this cross. Local archaeologist Helen Farrell has identified a granite cross-base with small circular-shaped socket in the graveyard (DU017-019003-) to the W of St. Mary's Church (DU017-019002-) which may have belonged to the cross depicted on the 1699 map of Lucan. NLI MS 39,251/3 National Library of Ireland, Original and copy title deeds to the lands of Pettycannon, outside Lucan, so called because originally they belonged to the Petty Canons and Choristers of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Helen Farrell Date of revised upload: 23 May 2023

• DU017-019005 Weir - fish
  Description

  The fish weir depicted crossing the River Liffey at Lucan on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map may have been built on the site of the medieval fish weirs belonging to the medieval 'fishery of Lucan'. A second weir (DU017-019010-) depicted on the 1837 ed. OSi map located on the River Liffey 1.2km to the W is an alternative possible location for the medieval fishery of Lucan. In 1295 Hugh de la Felde and Alianora his wife, were dispossessed or disseised of their freehold in Lucan which included 'a third of the fishery of the water of Lyuekan from the ford of Mich[ael]. Luterel to the ford of Athbo' (Cal. justic. rolls, Ire. Edw. I, 222). In response to this dispossession Hugh de la Felde and his wife Alianora replied that; 'As to the fishery, they say that Rob[ert]. de Wyleby and his wife are in seisin of the third part, and they pray judgment. And Hugh and Alianora say that Robert and his wife have nothing in the fishery, and put themselves on the assise' (ibid.). A few years later in 1306 King Edward sent his writ to John Wogan Jusiticiar of Ireland; 'on the part of John de Hausteyd and Roesia his wife, it is shown that whereas they ought to have a moiety of the fish taken in the water of Anneliffy [Liffey], between their land of Lyuekan on one side, and the land of the Salmon Leap [DU017-014----], which was of Ralph Pipard, on the other side of the water. And they, and the ancestors of Roesia, had the moiety of the fish taken in said water between said lands, and Ralph Pipard and his ancestors had the other moiety, while the land of Salmon Leap was in their hands. Ric[hard]. de Bereford treasurer of Ireland, when said land of the Salmon Leap, by grant which Ralph made to the King, came to the King's hand, immediately impeded John and Roesia from having the moiety of the fish. Wogan is to enquire, and if it appear that John and Roesia and her ancestors had the moiety of the fish in said water until so impeded, then to permit them to have the moiety of the fish taken' (Cal. justic. rolls, Ire. Edw. I, 257). A response to this legal writ from local jurors stated that; 'the fish taken between the land of Lyuecan and the land of Salmon Leap were never accustomed to be divided between the lords of those towns, but each of the lords was accustomed to have his fishery to the middle (ad medittatem) of the water, in places where the river of Aneliffy separates their lands from each other on opposite sides, so that the lord of Lyuecan had fish taken towards his land, and Ralph towards his land; and they were accustomed to fish with engines or nets. They say also that the weirs of Kilmaynan [Kilmainham], Chapel Isolde [Chapelizod], Palmereston [Palmerstown], Lyuecan [Lucan], and S. Katerine [St. Catherine's] are raised, and the water in them much narrowed, in prejudice of the King, and deterioration of his weirs and fishery. Because they say that in those weirs, the course of the water was accustomed to be of) the breadth of 16 feet at least, with sufficient depth for the passage of boats, bundles of firewood, and fish. Therefore the Sheriff is commanded to go to those parts, and cause the weir newly raised at Lyuecan [Lucan] to be wholly pulled down, and the other weirs, by view of the jurors, reduced in height, and the course of the water widened. So that those weirs be in the same state as they were of old accustomed to be, and the course of the water likewise. And that said injurious things be wholly put away' (Cal. justic. rolls, Ire. Edw. I, 258-9). the 1315 'John de Hanstede, knight, grants and quitclaims to Robert de Notingham, citizen of Dublin, his heirs and assigns all his right and claim in a water-mill at Lotereleston in the county of Dublin and in the manor of Lyuecan with all its appurtenances in the same county, viz., in messuages, lands, meadows, woods, heaths, parks, moors, marshes, mills, sites and seats of mills, waters, ponds, fisheries, warrens, river banks, weirs, streams, quarries, rabbit-warrens, homages, rents, services and customs of free tenants, burgesses, farmers, cottagers and betaghs, both English and Irish.' (Curtis 1932, 201, No. 505). In 1323 the Great Rolls of the Pipe of the Irish Exchequer, Walter de la Pulle, escheator of Ireland, accounts for the fisheries of the manor of Lucan (Went 1954, 54). Arthur Went (1954, 54) concluded that 'These few documents indicate clearly that the fishery of Lucan in the fourteenth century was exceedingly valuable'. The method of fishing described above were 'engines and nets' which indicates the construction of weirs and use of drift netting. The weir west of Lucan bridge, marked 'Weir, Salmon Pass' was possibly built on one of the sites of the medieval fishery of Lucan. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 10 May 2023

• DU017-019006 Bridge
  Description

  One of three bridges spanning the River Liffey in Lucan. The present Lucan Bridge which spans the River Liffey was built in 1814 to replace an earlier bridge (DU017-019007---) located downriver 160m to the W which in turn was built in the 18th-century to replace the medieval bridge (DU017-016----) located 240m to the W. The 19th-century bridge was described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a; 'Single-arch road bridge over river, 1814. Coursed squared limestone walls and abutments. Segmental arch with slender ashlar voussoirs and double keystone. Cast-iron balusters to parapet with stone coping' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; NIAH Reg. No. 11201090). No bridge is shown at this location of Rocque's 1760 Map of County Dublin. This bridge was described by Simington and O'Keeffe (1991, 270-4) as 'the longest span masonry arch ever built in Ireland. There is one clear-cut and informative mention by Bernard Mullins in his presidential address to ICEI in 1859; "this structure, consisting of a single arch' of 111ft [33.8m] span and 22ft [6.7m] rise, like many of the same period, is of a far more expensive character than the occasion called for. Its construction was attended with no difficulty, a good foundation having been easily obtained, with suitable materials immediately at hand, and yet the cost of construction exceeded £9,000. Mr George Knowles was the architect and, probably, the contractor, an arrangement common in those days, owing to the difficulty of obtaining the services of a sufficiently competent person of the latter class, together with the want of capital, there having been no banks to assist enterprise of that description". The date of its erection was solved by de Courcy who found that the metal balustrades were made by the Phoenix Iron Works of Dublin in 1814. Lucan is a segmental arc with a rise-to-span ratio of 0.20, whereas Sarah [Bridge] is three-centred, perhaps oval, with a ratio of 0.29; Lismore is 0.2. The ashlar masonry in Lucan is superb and the see-through iron balustrade parapets and unobtrusive spandrels give it a superb overall appearance from the river. The skewback, resting on an impost, is formed of three stones with a springing face at 45° to the horizontal. This is unusual for such a large arch; however, the springings are backed each side by solid 6ft [1.8m] thick pier abutments up the road level, giving a large vertical load; more-over, it springs from less than 3ft [0.9m] above the solid rock; consequently there is little risk of horizontal slippage resulting from the horizontal component of the arch thrust. This, of course, has been proved over a service life of 176 years. The actual span was checked by Dublin Co. Council in 1990 and is 110ft [33.5m].' Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 8 May 2023

• DU017-019007 Bridge
  Description

  One of three bridges spanning the River Liffey in Lucan. The present Lucan Bridge (DU019-019006-) located 180m upstream to E was built in 1814 to replace this 18th-century bridge which was built to replace the medieval bridge (DU017-016----) located 240m to the W. On the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map the bridge site is annotated 'Piers of Br.' where it shown immediately to the N of the Infant School on the S bank of the Liffey. The 18th-century bridge was described by Simington and O'Keeffe (1991, 270) as; 'The first Dublin to Kinnegad Turnpike Act (5 Geo. II c.16) was passed in 1731. The first sentence of it gives a clue to the line of the principal road to the west at the time as it mentions "the road leading from the city of Dublin through the towns of Kilmainham, Is land-bridge, Chappel-izod, Palmerstown, Lucan, Leixlip, Monouth, Kilcock, Cloncurry and states it was in a ruinous and bad condition. Section 20 states that "the road leading from the bridge at Lucan by the causeway of St Katherine's to the town of Leixlip by the sudden and frequent overflowing of the river Liffey over the said causeway is dangerous to passengers, several persons having lost their lives and many cattle having been drowned, and it is almost impractical to raise and make the same safe and commodious, and by the building of a bridge over the river in a convenient place, and turning the road another and shorter way the like accidents will for the time to come be prevented." The act then empowers the trustees to build a bridge of stone and lime in some convenient place over the Liffey and make a new road through Lucan and the lands of Cooltreeny leading to such bridge. Among the 100 or more trustees named in the 1731 act there are two Agmondisham Veseys, father and son. The Veseys had come into the Lucan estate when the father married a niece of Patrick Sarsfield in the 1720s. The importance of Lucan Bridge diminished with the building of the Leixlip road and bridge. Dean Swift's couplet fills the gap: "Agmondisham Vesey out of great bounty/ Built the bridge at the expense of the county.": this is generally accepted as relating to the Lucan bridge over the Liffey. Swift, who probably composed the couplet sometime in the 1730s, was one of the trustees named in the Blackbull-Trim-Athboy Turnpike Act, 1731 and was no doubt familiar with road financing procedures. This evidence suggests that a bridge was built at Lucan in the 1730s. Positive evidence of a new bridge is given in an act 11 & 12 Geo. III c. 35 (1771-2) which prescribed: Whereas a new bridge has been built at the expense of the county of Dublin over the river Liffey near the village of Lucan; and whereas Agmondisham Vesey esquire has consented and undertaken that the road from the said new bridge shall be carried without expense to the county through his estate in a straight line from the said bridge to Thomas Lynch's house where it will intersect the turnpike road which will be considerably shortened thereby be it enacted by the King's Majestie by the Lords . .. that as soon as the said new road be finished it may be lawful to the said Agmondisham Vesey to stop and inclose that part of the old road which lies west of the little river called the Griffeen. Examination of the 1844 O.S. six-inch map provided the necessary clues to piece together the evidence. This map shows the remnants of an abutment and two piers. Evidently the middle bridge mentioned in the Vesey act was swept away in the floods of 1784 or 1786.' Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 8 May 2023

• DU017-019008 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Lucan House now the residence of the Italian Ambassador was built in the 18th-century possibly on the site of the 'faire house' depicted on the 17th-century Down Survey map of Newcastle Barony (Hib. Reg.) and on the parish map of Lucan (NLI, Ms. 714). This 17th-century house may have been built on the or close to the site of the medieval castle (DU017-019002-) of the manor of Lucan. In 1702/03 a gentleman called John Green submitted a claim No. 1984 at Chichester House, College Green, Dublin, for an interest in a lease of 31 years, dated 25th of March 1700 by a deed dated the 9th of January 1699 against the property described as the 'Castle, and great white house at Lucan, the Land called the wood and several other premises' which was the property of Patrick Sarsfield (Anon. 1701, 226, Claim No. 1984). This claim which was rejected suggests that the 17th-century Lucan House was built beside or attached to the medieval castle (DU017-019001-) of Lucan. In 1569 the Council of Ireland certified to Queen Elizabeth the granting of the 'manor of Lucan to sir William Sarsfield from the earl of Kildare' (Cunningham 2010, 128). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Dublin recorded that at; 'Lucan there is a verry faire house a Chappell [DU017-019002-] some thatch houses and Cabbins and a good Stone bridge [DU017-016----] crossing the river Liffey' (Simington 1945, 290). In 1641 this house was the residence of William Sarsfield, an Irish papist and owner of 947 acres of land in Lucan (ibid., 302). In 1653 Theophilus Jones, a Colonel in the Parliamentarian Army submitted a petition to the Council of State relating to the lands of Lucan. In this petition he stated that he; 'shall have and enjoy the Town and Lands of Lucan, in the County of Dublyn, and Province of Leinster, in Ireland, with some other Parcels of Land lately belonging to one Sarsefield of Lucan, in which the said Colonel Theophilus Jones claims a Lease from the Commonwealth, at the Rent of One hundred and Ninety Pounds yearly, for and towards the Satisfaction of such Arrears as are due unto him for his Service for the Parliament; he paying for the same half so much more as other the Lands within that Province are to be sold at; viz. Nine hundred Pounds for a Thousand Acres, Allowance being made out of the same unto him for his present Estate in the Premises, or any Part thereof: And the Commissioners of Parliament in Ireland are hereby authorized and required to set out the same unto the said Colonel Theophilus Jones, his Heirs or Assigns, to be enjoyed by him, his Heirs and Assigns, accordingly' (Anon. 1802, 358). On the 28th of July in 1693 Sir Edward Ward, Attorney-General, to the Lords of the Treasury, reported on the; 'the petition of Charlotte Sarsfield, an infant, daughter and sole surviving heir of William Sarsfield, late of Lucan, in the co. of Dublin, Esq., by Mary his wife, sister to the late Duke of Monmouth, presented by William Fanshaw, Esq., her father-in-law and guardian, respecting “the manor of Lucan and other forfeited lands” in Ireland, which had belonged to the said William Sarsfield, and which the petitioner sought to obtain; recommending that she should be gratified' (Anon. 1868, 303). The following year in 1694 King William replied to 'William Fanshaw and his ward, Charlotte Sarsfeild, a minor, only daughter and heiress of William Sarsfeild of Lucan, esq., deceased, for confirmation of the said Charlotte's title to the manor of Lucan and other lands in Ireland, seized to the Crown as late in the possession of Col. Sarsfeild, or that her title may be tried by some expeditious action' (Anon. 1935). In 1695 an abstract about her petition sated that; 'Charlotte Sarsfield, an infant, by William Fanshaw, her father-in-law and guardian, was daughter and heir of William Sarsfield, of Lucan in Ireland, who on intermarrying with her mother had agreed (on the death Patrick Sarsfield, his father) to settle 800l. a year on her and her children. The petitioner charges the Earl of Lucan with entering on her property, by whom it was forfeited; praying for restoration of her estate' (Anon. 1868). In 1696 the Crown ruled once more on this petition and gave an; 'order for taking off the seizure of the estate of William Sarsfeild of Lucan in Ireland, deceased, and for putting Charlotte Sarsfeild his only daughter and heir into possession of said estate: it appearing from her petition that Patrick Sarsfeild, the elder, father of her said father, was tenant for life of the manor of Lucan and other his lands and estate in Ireland with remainder in tail to the said William and heirs male; that Charles II. granted the said reversion to the said William and his heirs for the intended benefit of Mary his then wife, sister to the late Duke of Monmouth, and her children by the said William, whose sole daughter and heir by the said Mary, also lately deceased, is the said Charlotte, petitioner herein; and the said Patrick dying during the late Rebellion, Col. Patrick Sarsfeild, younger brother of the said William, taking advantage of petitioner's infancy and of her being in England got into possession of the estate and wrongfully detained it till expelled by the King's arms; and the Revenue Commissioners, Ireland, finding the said Col. Patrick last possessed thereof did seize same into the King's hands on account of his forfeiture (except the manor of Lucan which has been in possession of petitioner and her mother for many years before the said Rebellion): on which petition the Solicitor-General reported that old Patrick Sarsfeild of Lucan was by the Court of Claims in 1663 declared innocent and his son William was declared innocent and was adjudged to be restored to the several lands declared in the decree to be held by him and his heirs made after the death of his said father: and that Charles II. afterwards granted the reversion as above, it being Charles II.'s intention that the estate should go to the heirs of the said William by the sister of the late Duke of Monmouth whose sole daughter is Charlotte, petitioner herein' (Shaw 1933). Two years later in 1698 the House of Commons received a petition from Agmondisham Vesey, and Charlotte his wife which stated; 'That upon the Marriage of William Sarsfeild, the Petitioner Charlott's Father, with Mary Sister of the late Duke of Monmouth, King Charles the IId, as a Marriage-Portion, granted to William Sarsfeild, and his Heirs, the Manor of Lucan, and other Lands, forfeited in 1641; which Grant was, in Trust, for the said Mary, and her Children: That Wm. Sarsfeild died in 1675, leaving Mary his Widow, and Three small Children, Two whereof died Infants, without Issue; and the Petitioner Charlott is Daughter, and Heir, to her said Father, and Brothers: That Colonel Patrick Sarsfeild; younger Brother of the said William, taking Advantage of the Petitioner Charlott's Infancy, by Violence, in the late Rebellion in Ireland, got Possession of the said Estate; and, upon Application to the King, her Title being made out, was pleased, by Letters of Privy-Seal, dated in April 1696, to restore her to her paternal Estate; which she has quietly enjoyed ever since: And praying, That the Bill for vacating all Grants of Estates, and other Interests; forfeited in Ireland, since the 13th Day of February 1688, may not prejudice the Petitioner's Title to the said Estate' (Anon. 1803). Lucan House is depicted on the 17th-century Down Survey map of Newcastle barony where it is shown standing to the S of Lucan Bridge (DU017-016---) and adjacent to the medieval road flanked on either side by a line of dwellings representing the 17th-century village of Lucan with medieval parish church. On the map the house is depicted as a gable fronted house with tall lateral chimneystacks rising above the roofline of the house in typical late 16th-early 17th-century style. The house is depicted as a tall gable ended building with central gable fronted tower with three tall chimneystacks ris

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Architectural heritage

• Stewart's Crafts, unknown, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey building, c.1860, entered at first floor level from street. Now in use as craft shop. Red brick walls with yellow brick eaves course. uPVC casement windows with flush stone sills. Three-centred carriage arch to north bay, partially reduced in size. Hipped slate roof with decorative timber brackets to eaves. Red brick chimney stack. Large wing to east with brown brick walls, uPVC casement windows and hipped slate roof.

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Ground and risks

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3003 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

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