Lucan and Pettycanon

Lucan and Pettycanon is a townland in the civil parish of Lucan, barony of Newcastle, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Leamhcán.

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Area: 6,222 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres)
Buildings: No building touches it.
Zoning: G1 OS (South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective
R2 RES (South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective
Townland: Lucan and Pettycanon

Planning applications on this parcel

25 Jun 2002Grant permission
Demolish existing single storey side extension, construct new two storey attached end of terrace house with associated site works and new vehicular access.
Permission, 1 home · South Dublin County Council, SD02A/0212
—Pending
• Construction of 4.2 km shared pathways pedestrian and cycle facilities within parklands and quiet streets and traffic calming measures on vehicle carriageway from Grand Canal to Lucan Village • Construction of 4.29km school connections with improved footpaths, cycle facilities, and school zones. • Junction amendments to provide safer movement of pedestrians and cyclists • Associated services • Landscaping and Public Realm works
Application under part 8 · South Dublin County Council, SD228/0009

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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
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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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Ground and risks

Radon: At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3003 (ZIP).
Flooding: The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.

Area: 108.8 ha; 269 acres
Land parcels: 895; registered freehold, median 222 m²
Zoning: R2; RES
Planning: 100; applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

Lucan and PettycanonLucan Demesne Esker South St. Edmondsbury Coldblow Laraghcon Ballyowen Ballydowd Cooldrinagh Glebe Esker North Doddsborough

500 m

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895 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lucan and Pettycanon, from 1 m² to 94,753 m² (9.48 ha, 23.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 62 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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Zoning

Development plans, national zoning

R2RES (Existing residential)
South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 836 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
M2VC (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 48 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
G1OS (Open space, park)
South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
M3LC (District, neighbourhood centre)
South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
G3HA-LV (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
R3SDZ (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

25 Sept 2026Provisional recommendation
The erection of a porch outside our external front door of the house. The porch will be situated at least x metres from the road. The floor area does not exceed 2 metres squared. The slated pitched roof is 3 metres in height.
Declaration of exemption sect. 5 · South Dublin County Council, ED26/0091
18 Sept 2026Recommended decision
(Shop Front Grant) -Replace the existing shop front door as it is damaged. -Repaint the wooden frame arounf door. -Add illuminated soft white led light to sign above shop front door. -Add flowers above shop door. -Repaint the windows on middle and top level.
Declaration of exemption sect. 5 · South Dublin County Council, ED26/0088
11 Sept 2026Invalidate application
Installation Of Solar Panels On South Facing Roofs Of Existing Parish Centre All Associated Site Works.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD26A/0218W
21 Aug 202635 day assessment
Change of use of existing solicitors office to doctors surgery, to include minor internal alterations, and all ancillary site development works.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD26A/0203W
16 Aug 202635 day assessment
Construction of a single-storey front porch extension, plus all associated site works.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD26B/0374W
28 Jul 2026Request additional information
Construction of an out building in the garden; The building will be a single story unit.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD26B/0351W
8 Jul 2026Grant permission
The development will consist of change of use of existing dwelling to doctor’s general practice rooms, modifications to existing elevations and plan layout, together with two storey extension to the rear comprising 2 no. 2 bed apartments. The development also includes 14 no. car parking spaces, bicycle stand, modifications to existing entrance, private and common amenity areas and all associated site works.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD25A/0304W
6 Jul 2026Refuse permission
Change of use of an existing terraced first, and second foor office unit to provide 2no. self-contained own door access studio apartments, including internal alterations, associated services, and all ancillary site development works.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD26A/0162W
1 Jul 2026Unregistered application
Proposed Outdoor advertising project comprising of digital advertising display units
Application under part 8 · South Dublin County Council, PT8SD422
11 Jun 2026Grant permission
Alterations to existing dormer bungalow including (i) construction of 2 no. dormers to the rear section of the pitched roof; (ii) internal alterations at 1st floor consisting of the provision of 2 no. bedrooms; (iii) 2 new windows to the rear gable elevation and all associated site development works.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD26B/0290W
13 May 2026Grant permission & grant retention
Application for permission to retain the exhaust fuels at rear of the units 1 & 2.
Permission and retention · South Dublin County Council, SD26A/0030
31 Mar 2026Grant permission
Removal of boiler shed and store to rear & construction of a first floor extension to side above existing converted garage and single-storey kitchen extension to the rear with associated site works
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD26B/0146W
19 Mar 2026Declared exempt
Whether the use of the Moat Lodge B&B at Lock Road Lucan Co Dublin K78 P7X3 to provide accommodation for persons seeking international protection, constitutes exempted development or does not constitute exempt development
Declaration of exemption sect. 5 · South Dublin County Council, ED26/0010
5 Mar 2026Grant permission
The provision of a new external ramp to enhance emergency escape provisions from the existing nursing home to a place of safety, the removal of two car parking spaces to the north west of the site, the relocation of an existing waste water access chamber and the installation of new external lighting to service the ramp and all associated site works.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD26A/0058W
19 Feb 2026Grant permission
The development will consist of: Construction of a new louvered screen with access door to the front and side at ground floor level to screen a bin storage area behind, and the construction of a single storey flat-roof extension to the rear.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD25B/0705W
17 Feb 2026Invalid - site notice
The provision of a new external ramp to enhance emergency escape provisions from the existing nursing home to a place of safety, the removal of two car parking spaces to the north west of the site, the relocation of an existing waste water access chamber and the installation of new external lighting to service the ramp and all associated site works.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD26A/0038W
16 Feb 2026Grant permission
Part single-storey, part two-storey rear extension incorporating internal ground and first floor modifications. Front porch extension and widening of the existing vehicular entrance, plus all associated site works.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD26B/0064W
10 Feb 2026Grant permission
Construction of a new 3-bedroom single storey log cabin style detached house with rendered finished front elevation on the site with a share site entrance and separate driveways and parking.
Permission, 1 home · South Dublin County Council, SD26A/0032W
6 Feb 2026Declared exempt
To use the building as a GP Surgery instead of Pieta House counselling.
Declaration of exemption sect. 5 · South Dublin County Council, ED26/0008
19 Jan 2026Grant permission
The development will consist of the construction of a single-storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling to provide kitchen, dining and living accommodation, the conversion of the existing garage to the side of the dwelling to provide a playroom, the construction of a single storey extension to the front of dwelling to provide a new porch, the construction pf a first - Floor extension to the side of dwelling to provide a new bedroom, together with internal alterations and all associated site works.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD26B/0017
23 Dec 2025Declared exempt & declared not exempt
Material alterations compromising changes and amalgamations to part of the existing four storey nursing home.
Declaration of exemption sect. 5 · South Dublin County Council, ED25/0097
23 Dec 2025Grant permission
Development consisting of extensions & alterations to existing semi-detached two storey dwelling house to include single storey flat & slopping roofed extensions to front, side and rear of dwelling, single storey extension to front to include extended front porch & new bay window to living room with new flat roof canopy over. Extension to side and rear to comprise new master bedroom, dressing room & ensuite to front & side, new utility & WC to rear, extended kitchen, dining & living area to rear and new covered external patio/deck area to rear. Works to include associated minor internal & external alterations to facilitate development including minor alterations and widening of existing front vehicular entrance to the site, associated drainage & landscaping works etc.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD25B/0723W
15 Dec 2025Grant permission
The proposed development will consist of 'extending the side gable wall and roof to form a new 'Dutch' type roof structure with rear dormer roof structure to convert the existing attic area into a non-habitable area with internal alterations, external finishes to match existing & associate site works.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD25B/0696W
5 Dec 2025Invalid - site notice
The development will consist of: Construction of a new louvered screen with access door to the front and side at ground floor level to screen a bin storage area behind, and the construction of a singlestorey flat-roof extension to the rear.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD25B/0681W
24 Nov 2025Invalidate application
The development will consist of: Construction of a new louvered screen with access door to the front and side at ground floor level to screen a bin storage area behind, and the construction of a single storey flat-roof extension to the rear.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD25B/0657W

The 25 most recent of over 100 applications.

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Nature and heritage

Designated sites and recorded monuments

Designated sites

Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Liffey Valley 000128

Recorded monuments

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
DU017-019009 Water mill - unclassified
Description
The 'Old Mill' depicted on Taylor's 1816 Map of County Dublin may represent the remains of the medieval mill associated with the manorial borough of Lucan or of a later mill dating from the 16th/17th century. In the early 13th-century there is a reference in the Register of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist, to the 'molendinum de Lyuekan' or mill of Lucan (Brooks 1936, 210). In 1295 Hugh de la Felde and Alianora his wife, were removed from the possession of their freehold in Lucan which included 'a third of two parts of the lesser perquisite [profits] of the mill of Lyuekan' (Cal. justic. rolls, Ire. Edw. I, 222-3). The Urban Survey of Dublin (Bradley and King 1988, 251-3) recorded the following details about the medieval watermill in the borough of Lucan; ' MILL 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)'. In 1341 the Ormond Deeds recorded the; 'Final concord made in the court of the King at Dublin in the morning after the Purification of the B.V.M. in the 15th year of the reign of King Edward III, before Simon fitz Richerd, Thomas de Mountpelleris, clerk, John Gernoun and Nicholas de Snyterby, Justices of the Bench, and other lieges of the King present, between Simon fitz Richerd, plaintiff, and John de Bath and Eglentina his wife, deforciant, concerning the manor of Lucan and a mill with its appurtenances in Luterelston, over which a plea of covenant was summoned between them in the same court, viz., that said John and Eglentina recognised the said manor with its appurtenances and mill to be the proper right of Simon, as that which he had of the gift of said John and Eglentina, who now release and quitclaim the same for themselves and their heirs to the aforesaid Simon and his heirs for ever. And for this recognition, release, quitclaim, fine and concord Simon gave to John and Eglentina a sparrow-hawk' (Curtis 1932, 317-8, No. 747). NLI MS 39/256/1 National Library of Ireland, An accompt of the survey of the lands of Lucan according to the meares and bounds showed Mr Abra[ham[ Carter. De Vesci Papers. See attached Taylor's Map of Dublin showing the village of Lucan (DU017-019----), 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: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 May 2023
DU017-019012 Castle - unclassified
Description
The residential tower attached to the N side of St Mary's church (DU017-019002-) at Lucan (DU017-019----), was mistakenly identified as the medieval castle of Lucan. 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 situated in the main Street of Lucan village (ibid.). Salter (ibid.) recorded the following details about the medieval castle (DU017-019001-) 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'. Recent research by local archaeologist, Helen Farrell confirmed Mike Salter's identification of a medieval castle in the historic village of Lucan (DU017-019----). The De Vesci Papers in the National Library of Ireland contains a map of Lucan village dating from 1699 which shows the location of a medieval castle in the village of Lucan (NLI MS 39,251/3). On this map a tower hosue type building annotated 'The Castle' castle is shown standing immediately N of a medieval road following the line of the present road that leads up to Cannonbrook and to the E of Lucan Church (DU017-019002-) and Lucan House (DU017-019008-). The house known locally as 'Ard Garon' on Dispensary Lane stands on the site of or incorporates fabric of the medieval castle. It is not clear if there was one or two medieval castles in the manor of Lucan and it is possible that this may be the original medieval manorial castle of Lucan. Alternatively there may have been two castles in the medieval manor of Lucan, one of which was located on the site of the present Lucan House and the second castle located here to the E of St. Mary's medieval church (DU017-019002-). The present house 'Ard Garon' on Dispensary Lane was described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a; 'Semi-detached three-bay two-storey building, c.1830, originally two separate buildings and now containing two dwellings. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base course. An unusual, intriguing building, comprising two related and interconnected structures on a corner site' (NIAH Reg. No. 11201038)'. The 'unusual' facade of this building suggests that this house consists of a two storey high medieval tower that was extended or modified in the 19th-century creating the unusual appearance of the building known as 'Ard Garon' NLI MS 39,251/3 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: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by local archaeologist, Helen Farrell Date of upload: 23 May 2023
DU017-019013 Water mill - unclassified
Description
The De Vesci Papers in the National Library of Ireland contains a map of Lucan village dating from 1699 which shows the location of a medieval castle in the village of Lucan (NLI MS 39,251/3). On this map a possible watermill is depicted standing immediately to the E of the Griffeen River and to the S of St. Mary's Church (DU017-019002-) and Lucan House (DU017-019008-). The watermill was located in a parcel of land adjoining on the W bank of the River and fronting onto the medieval road leading to Cooldrinagh. This watermill was listed in the 1680 survey of the lands of Lucan, where it is recorded that on parcel no. 22 the land of 'Nicholas Roos' who held 'on the north side of ye River An Island by ye Mill' (NLI MS 39/256/1). NLI MS 39,251/3 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. NLI MS 39/256/1 National Library of Ireland, An accompt of the survey of the lands of Lucan according to the meares and bounds showed Mr Abra[ham[ Carter. De Vesci Papers. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by local archaeologist, Helen Farrell Date of upload: 23 May 2023
DU017-021001 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on a high natural ravine. The site is a broad oval area (c.55m NW-SE; 28m NE-SW) demarcated by a scarped bank (Wth 7m; H 2.2m) on ground that falls away to the SSW. There is a castellated entrance through the bank in the ENE. A souterrain (DU017-021002-) lies in the NW end of the interior (Anon., 1896, 421-2). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011
DU017-021002 Souterrain
Description
Situated in the NW end of a ringfort's interior (DU017-021001-). Its position is visible as a sunken area with descending stone steps. It was accessible up to recently. When last inspected in 1971 the entrance led into a passage with a beehive chamber off it. This was built of drystone walling with a corbelled roof closed by a large slab which was thought to be a modern repair. At a point opposite the present entrance was another entrance into a slightly curving passage orientated ENE-WSW. This was blocked at one end (Anon 1896, 421-2; Ball 1906, 4, 36; Price 1940, 123). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

Public house, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached eight-bay two-storey public house, c. 1847, consisting of three originally terraced buildings. Rendered, ruled and lined and painted walls with square-headed window openings having two-pane and multiple-pane timber sash windows. Pitched slate roof with four rendered chimney stacks marking former building partitions. Simple timber pub front with large casement windows. Two-storey section to rere with corrugated iron roof and blocked openings.
Ardfield House, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay two-storey former house, c.1880, with projecting two-storey entrance bay. Now in use as an apartment block. Random rubble limestone walls to north and east ground floor, smooth rendered elsewhere, with parallel quoins. uPVC casement windows. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimney stacks. Carved limestone nameplate over replacement timber door.
Walled garden, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Former orchard boundary wall, c.1850, of random rubble limestone with brick coping to section. Wall repointed and large brick-dressed opening now blocked. Brick coping possibly formerly part of building within orchard.
Gardenville, steward's house, 1735–1740 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-bay two-storey steward's house, dated 1738, on an L-shaped plan originally two-bay two-storey on a rectangular plan. Pitched and hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron octagonal hopper and downpipes. Roughcast walls on battered base with rusticated rendered piers to corners. Square-headed window openings with sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-three timber sash windows. Round-headed window opening (north) with sill, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash window without horns having interlocking Y-tracery glazing bars. Segmental-headed door opening (south) with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Street fronted on a corner site with rendered boundary wall to perimeter having rubble stone coping.
House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Semi-detached three-bay two-storey former house, c. 1830, now in use as a travel agency. Smooth rendered walls with timber sash windows having stone sills. Replacement timber door with projecting gabled hood. Plain timber cornice beneath a pitched slate roof with gable end and shared chimney stacks. Replacement slate roof to rere. Low rubble limestone walls and gate piers to street. Carriage arch with timber doors to east.
Annadale, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1830. Smooth rendered walls with timber sash windows having stone sills, and a round-headed doorway with plain fanlight and timber panelled door. Roughcast rendered west gable end and two-storey flat-roofed extension. Pitched slate roof with gable end and shared chimney stacks. Rubble stone outbuilding to rear. Low rubble limestone walls and gate piers to street.
Rose Cottage, house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former house, c.1840, now in use as offices. Random rubble stone walls to front with brick quoins, roughcast rendered to sides and rere. Replacement timber casement windows with stone sills and brick surrounds, painted to ground floor. Pair of red brick gabled projecting porches. Pitched slate roof with two brick chimney stacks.
The Forge, forge/smithy, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey former outbuilding, c.1830, now in use as two separate dwellings. Random coursed limestone rubble walls, whitewashed to front elevation to south. Replacement uPVC windows and replacement timber front doors to eastern section. Timber planked front door and modern porch extension to western section. Squared bullseye windows in the east gable with concrete lintel and brick surrounds. Pitched pantile roof with chimney stack to the west end.
Lucan Garda Síochána Station, RIC barracks, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-storey constabulary barrack, c.1810, with central three bays flanked by pair of projecting three-sided bows. Ashlar limestone walls to ground floor with brick surrounds to windows, brick walls above with limestone quoins. Replacement timber sash windows. Round-headed doorway with radial fanlight. Hipped slate roof with two brick chimney stacks. Granite gate piers to street with plinth wall and later railings. Extensively refurbished and extended to rere, late 1980s.
Public house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey with attic public house, c.1830. Rendered walls, with simple timber pilaster pub fronts having plate glass windows to ground floor, timber casement windows above. Extensive later thatched roof with three dormer windows and single chimney stack to east gable. Small modern brick extension to south.
House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-bay single-storey with attic house, c.1860, currently unoccupied. Coursed limestone walls with projecting gabled entrance porch having timber door with rectangular overlight. Square- and segmental-headed window openings with brick surrounds, some retaining timber sash windows. Pitched slate roof with central chimney stack.
Griffeen Lodge, house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-bay two-storey house, c.1790, built in an early Gothic idiom. Roughcast rendered walls with octagonal limestone clasping corner posts having elongated finials. Timber sash, casement and canted bay windows. Four-centre arched doorway with moulded surround. Hipped slate roofs behind crenellated parapet with two rendered chimney stacks. Timber glazed conservatory to the west. Detached single-storey outbuilding to yard. Cast-iron entrance gates to street.
Outbuilding, 1750–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached irregular-bay two-storey domestic outbuilding, c.1775. Roughcast rendered eastern and southern walls, the latter articulated in an early Gothic idiom, with gabled parapet, corner columns with simple finials, three-centred carriage arch, small square first floor window and flanking Latin cross blind arrow loops. Irregular blocked openings to eastern street side. Painted coursed rubble walls to south and west, with brick chimney, cornice and reveals to slit windows. Pitched and hipped slate roof. Twentieth-century single-storey lean-to extension to west, with concrete walls and corrugated iron roof.
Canonbrook House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached multiple-bay two-storey over basement house, c.1800, on an L-plan. Smooth rendered walls with replacement timber sash and uPVC windows. Single original lancet window to east gable. Pitched slate roof to east with rectangular chimney stack set in east gable. Hipped slate roof to north with single chimney stack to west. Flat-roofed porch extension to re-entrant corner. Low coursed limestone boundary wall and gate piers to street, buttressed to the northern section.
Lucan Methodist Church, church/chapel, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached Gothic Revival church, c.1877, with four-bay nave having paired lancet windows, half-octagonal apse to east, and large three light window to west entrance front. Snecked limestone walls with red brick string courses, cornice and dressings to buttresses and openings. Decorative brick and limestone bellcote to west gable. Pitched slate roof. Single-storey lean-to extension to north. Simple interior with timber scissors truss to roof. Limestone rubble boundary wall.
Lucan Methodist Church, manse, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey clerical dwelling, c.1880. Brown brick walls with red brick bands, cornice, arches to segmental-headed window openings, and doorway surround. uPVC casement windows with stone sills. Recessed porch with timber panelled door and glazed door surround. Hipped slate roof. Set within Methodist church grounds.
House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Semi-detached four-bay two-storey house, c.1830, now in office use. Smooth rendered walls with a projecting base course and quoins. Original round-headed door surround with decorated keystone supported by pilasters. Late nineteenth-century timber sash windows with stone sills also have decorated window surrounds and keystones. Pitched slate roof with three chimney stacks. Contemporary projection and later extensions to rere retaining cast-iron rainwater goods. Cast-iron railings on plinth wall to street.
Ard Garon, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Semi-detached three-bay two-storey building, c.1830, originally two separate buildings and now containing two dwellings. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base course. Replacement uPVC windows with stone sills in widened openings. Pair of uPVC doors in widened opening. Pitched slate roof, hipped to corner, with parapet having stone coping. Rendered chimney stacks. Cast-iron gate and railings on plinth wall to street. Rubble stone outbuilding to rere.
House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Semi-detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, c.1820. Roughcast rendered walls with timber sash windows. Round-headed doorway with uPVC door approached by flight of steps. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimney stacks. Plinth wall to basement area. Two bays of lower floors to right obscured by mid twentieth-century flat-roofed retail outlet attached to neighbour to right.
House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Semi-detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, c.1820, also in use as retail outlet. Smooth rendered front wall with render quoins, roughcast rendered to side. uPVC casement windows. Round-headed doorway with uPVC door approached by flight of steps. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimney stacks. Two-storey extension to rere. Mid twentieth-century single-storey flat-roofed retail outlet projecting, obscuring basement and ground floor of central four bays of the semi-detached pair. Plinth wall to basement area removed.
Bridge, 1770–1775 · Regional interest
Description
Single arch road bridge over river, built 1773, with flanking quadrant walls and associated semi-circular walls to south side. Ashlar limestone parapets, raised voussoirs and walls, with radial stonework to spandrels. Pair of blind niches to northern quadrant walls. Collection of Coade stone plaques and panels to northern side, facing Lucan demesne. Inscribed limestone commemorative block facing south on north parapet.
Canal (section of), 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Canalised section of river between Griffeen Bridge and Vesey Bridge, c.1840. Limestone rubble walls with squared limestone coping. Pair of ashlar piers to northern end, now with an infill plinth wall.
Bridge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch road bridge over canalised river, c.1840. Ashlar walls, parapets and voussoirs, with benchmark to southern face of north parapet.
Post box, 1970–1990 · Regional interest
Description
Cast-iron pillar post box, c.1980, with raised 'an post' plaque and manufacturer's name plate.
Bank/financial institution, 1885–1895 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey former bank, c.1890, now in use as restaurant. Rendered walls with quoins. Timber sash windows with stone sills to first floor. Round-headed door with fanlight and drip moulding. Large bracketed timber front to restaurant. Pitched and hipped artificial slate roof behind parapet with clock in tablet. Single rendered chimney stack. Cast-iron railings to street.
Griffeen House, house, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey former house, c.1860, now in use as a taxi office and enterprise company accommodation. Red brick walls with eaves course. Raised brick surrounds and stone sills to openings having timber sash windows. Wide segmental-headed doorway formed from original door and window opening. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimney stack. Simple iron railings to street.
Lucan Physiotherapy Clinic, house, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Pair of terraced two-storey houses, c.1860, one two-bay, the other single-bay. Now in use as physiotherapy clinic. Red brick walls with eaves course. Raised brick surrounds and stone sills to openings. uPVC casement windows and doors. Pitched slate roof with two red brick chimney stacks. Simple iron railings to street.
Lucan Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1875–1885 · Regional interest
Description
Detached gable-fronted church, c.1880, comprehensively rebuilt 1988. Three-bay nave with gabled projecting side chapels to aisles. Brown brick walls with polychrome brick bands, base courses and opening surrounds. Timber door, in doorway with flanking dwarf columns having foliate capitals. Lancet windows flanking with large tracery window to west front. Some openings retain leaded or stained glass. Pitched slate roof with rere chimney stack, stone coping and saw tooth cresting. Cast-iron gates and railings to street.
House, 1905–1915 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace three-bay single-storey house, c.1910. Red brick walls with replacement timber casement windows having stone sills. Plain timber door with overlight. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimney stack.
Lucan Family Centre, house, 1905–1915 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay single-storey former house, c.1910, now in use as a family centre. Red brick walls with replacement timber casement windows having stone sills. Glazed timber door with overlight. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimney stack.
House, 1905–1915 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay single-storey former house, c.1910, now in use as a crèche. Red brick walls with timber casement windows having stone sills. Replacement timber door. Doorway moved from right-hand to centre bay. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimney stack.
House, 1905–1915 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace three-bay single-storey house, c.1910. Rendered walls, originally red brick, with timber windows having stone sills and external roller shutters. Semi-circular window to gable end. Timber panelled door. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimney stack. Large rere extension with single-pitched roof and attic windows.
House, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, c.1860. Imitation stone wall with enlarged window openings having aluminium casement windows. Replacement door in later surround. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimney stack. Simple iron railings to street.
House, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, c.1860. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth base course. Raised red brick surrounds to openings. Timber sash windows. Glazed timber door with overlight. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimney stack. Simple iron railings to street.
House, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, c.1860. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth base course. Raised red brick surrounds to openings. uPVC casement windows. Glazed timber door with overlight. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimney stack. Simple iron railings to street.
House, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, c.1860. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth base course. Raised red brick surrounds to openings. Timber sash windows. Timber door with overlight. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimney stack. Simple iron railings to street.
Lucan Studios, house, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey house, c.1860, on irregular plan. Now also in use as photographic studio. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth base course. Raised red brick surrounds to openings. uPVC casement windows. Glazed timber door with overlight. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimney stack. Simple iron railings to street.
House, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, c.1860. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth base course. Raised red brick surrounds to openings. uPVC casement windows. Timber panelled door with overlight. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimney stack. Simple iron railings to street.
House, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey house, c.1860. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth base course. Raised red brick surrounds to openings. Timber sash windows. Timber panelled door with overlight. Pitched slate roof with brick chimney stack. Simple iron railings to street.
House, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, c.1860. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth base course. Raised red brick surrounds to openings. uPVC casement windows. Timber panelled door with overlight. Pitched slate roof with brick chimney stack. Simple iron railings to street.
House, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, c.1860. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth base course. Raised red brick surrounds to openings. uPVC casement windows. Glazed timber door with overlight. Pitched slate roof with brick chimney stack. Simple iron railings to street.
House, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, c.1860. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth base course. Raised red brick surrounds to openings. Timber sash windows. Timber panelled door with leaded overlight. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimney stack. Simple iron railings to street.
Cormack's, house, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
End- of-terrace two-bay two-storey house, c.1860, now also used as a shop. Full-width flat-roofed shop extension to front, two-storey extension to rere. Smooth rendered front wall, roughcast to side. Painted brick surrounds to first floor windows. Timber sash windows to front, uPVC casement windows to gable and rere extension. Plate glass shop window with roller shutter. Pitched slate roof with brick chimney stack. Open forecourt to street.
House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Formerly semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1820, now terraced. Smooth rendered walls. Replacement small pane timber sash windows with stone sills and patent reveals. Timber panelled door with fanlight and granite step. Pitched slate roof with chimney stack to each end and to rere. Limestone steps down to a rubble stone wall to street front.
I.F.S. House, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Formerly semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1820, now terraced and in use as an Insurance and Financial Services office. Roughcast rendered walls with a smooth rendered base course. Replacement uPVC windows to first floor and replacement timber casement windows to ground floor, all with patent reveals. Altered doorway with timber door. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimney stack to each end. Stone steps leading down to a concrete wall to street front.
Saint Andrew's Church (Lucan), church/chapel, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
Description
Detached Gothic Revival church, built 1823. Three-bay nave with projecting square entrance to north having octagonal ashlar spire. Shallow polygonal projection to east, gabled projection to west. Roughcast rendered walls with ashlar limestone dressings including string course, chamfered reveals to openings, and crenellations and pyramidal finials to roof and tower. Diamond-paned timber Y-tracery windows throughout with drip mouldings. Timber panelled door. Pitched slate roof. Interior contains box pews, panelling and organ. Ashlar limestone gate piers and pedestrian gateways, with cast-iron gates. Modern parish centre to west, of roughly dressed rubble with metal cladding to upper floor.
The Robin's Nest, house, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace four-bay three-storey former house, c.1815, now in use as commercial outlets. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth base. Timber casement windows with stone sills to upper floors. Pair of plain modern timber shopfronts with plate glass windows. Large fanlight window to western bay, may originally have been carriage arch. Pitched slate roof with rendered and brick chimney stacks. Two-storey rubble stone extension with corrugated roof, and modern rendered extension to rere. Interior contains blocked stone oven with brick segmented arch and fireplace with timber lintel.
House, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced five-bay three-storey house, c.1815, now in use as commercial outlets. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base. Replacement timber sash windows with stone sills. Round-headed doorway with simple radial fanlight and timber panelled door. Pitched slate roof with rendered and brick chimney stacks. Twentieth-century extensions to rere.
Kieran Brady, house, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
Description
End-of terrace three-bay two-storey former house, c.1815, now in use as an estate agency. Rendered, ruled and lined and painted front wall with raised painted quoins. uPVC casement windows with stone sills over full-width glazed timber shopfront. Pitched and hipped slate roof behind parapet, with rendered chimney stacks. Full-height decorated screen wall with carriage arch to west.
EBS Building Society, bank/financial institution, 1905–1910 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace four-bay two-storey financial institution, c.1910. Western bay a later extension. Red brick front wall with decorative brick pilasters and rendered frieze. Segmental-headed timber sash windows with continuous granite sill course. Full-width glazed timber shopfront to original building. Segmental-headed carriage arch to extension. Pitched slate roof behind parapet with semi-circular tablet bearing date. Smooth rendered to sides and rere with uPVC casement windows.
Griffin's Pharmacy, house, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace four-bay two-storey over basement former house, c.1815, now in use as a pharmacy. Smooth rendered walls with later raised quoins. uPVC casement windows with stone sills to first floor. Pair of traditional-style glazed timber shopfronts to ground floor flanking central round-headed doorway with radial fanlight and stone block and start surround, now painted. Rendered side and rere, retaining possibly original timber sash windows. Pitched slate roof with rendered and brick chimney stacks. Building possibly originally three-bay, or possibly formerly two separate units.
House, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey over basement former house, c.1815, now in use as commercial accommodation. Roughcast rendered walls, smooth rendered to rere with bowed projection. Timber sash windows with stone sills throughout. Central round-headed doorway with radial fanlight and stone block and start surround, now painted. Pitched slate roof with redbrick chimney stacks. Rendered gate piers and rubble stone walls with stone coping to street.
House, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced four-bay two-storey over basement former house, c.1815, now in use as commercial accommodation. Roughcast rendered walls. uPVC casement windows with stone sills. Central round-headed doorway with radial fanlight and stone block and start surround, now painted. Four-centred carriage arch to western bay with ashlar voussoirs and double keystone. Bowed projection to rere. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimney stacks. Rendered gate piers and boundary wall with stone coping to street.
House, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced six-bay two-storey over basement house, c.1815, now also in use as an Indian Restaurant to the rere. Random rubble stone front wall, originally rendered. Roughcast rendered rere wall. uPVC and aluminium casement windows. Timber panelled door with rectangular overlight and simple render surround. Square-headed carriageway to western bay. Pitched slate roof with brick and rendered chimney stacks. Rubble stone boundary wall to street. Two-storey extension to rere housing restaurant.
House, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced five-bay two-storey over basement former house, c.1815, now in use as an office. Random rubble stone front wall, originally rendered. Roughcast rendered rere wall. uPVC casement windows throughout. Round-headed doorway with timber panelled door having plain overlight and moulded surround. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimney stacks. Roughcast rendered boundary wall to street. Later outshoot to rere with corrugated roof.
Bowman and Co. Solicitors, house, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey over basement former house, c.1815, now in use as an office. Random rubble stone front wall, originally rendered. Roughcast rendered rere wall. Replacement timber sash windows throughout. Round-headed doorway. Bowed projection to rere. Pitched slate roof with brick chimney stacks, one later. Roughcast rendered boundary wall and gate piers with stone coping to street.
Liffey Descent, house, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey over basement house, c.1815. Roughcast rendered walls. Timber sash windows. Round-headed doorway with replacement timber panelled door having radial fanlight. Pitched slate roof with brick and rendered chimney stacks. Lean-to extension to rere. Roughcast rendered boundary wall with stone coping to street.
House, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
Description
End-of terrace three-bay two-storey over basement former house, c.1815, now in use as an office. Refurbished and altered, c.1930. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plat band, base and opening surrounds to front. Widened openings with casement windows and concrete sills. Timber panelled door. Large metal-clad outshoot to rere. Replacement pitched and hipped slate roof with rendered chimney stacks. Roughcast rendered boundary wall with stone coping to street. Range of three outbuildings to rere, currently unused.
St Andrew's Lodge and Hall, school, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached single-bay two-storey over basement former school, built 1827, on a T-shaped plan formed by single-storey entrance bays flanking. Converted, c.1991, and now in use as private dwellings and an office. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base. uPVC casement windows. Four-light timber window to gabled projection to front. Timber panelled doors with plain semi-circular overlights. Pitched slate roof behind parapet having stone coping, pyramidal finials, and decorative render arcaded motif. Central tablet with carved roundel name and date plaque. Two rendered chimney stacks. Similar parapets to entrance bays. Coursed limestone rubble walls to street.
House, 1890–1920 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace single-bay two-storey gable-fronted house, c.1905. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth base and ground floor to side. Wide string course to first floor level and part timbered gable. Timber casement windows with stone sills. Plain door to side elevation. Pitched slate roof with shared red brick chimney stack. Door formerly housed in right-hand ground floor bay.
House, 1890–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, c.1905. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth base course. Wide string course to first floor level. Aluminium casement windows with stone sills. Recessed glazed timber door. Pitched slate roof with shared red brick chimney stack.
House, 1890–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, c.1905. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth base course. Wide string course to first floor level. Timber casement windows with stone sills. Timber panelled door. Pitched slate roof with shared red brick chimney stack.
House, 1890–1920 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace single-bay two-storey gable-fronted house, c.1905. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth base course and ground floor to side. Wide string course to first floor level and part timbered gable. Original multiple-pane timber casement windows with stone sills. Timber panelled door. Pitched slate roof with shared red brick chimney stack.
Water pump, 1850–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Cast-iron water hydrant, c.1880, with raised lion's head motif and acorn finial. Painted black and gold, and currently unused.
Saint Joseph's Convent, convent/nunnery, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-storey convent, c.1867, with five-bay entrance façade, two-bay projecting wing with canted bay window, and five-bay wing to south having ornate niche housing statue. Service wing to north. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Aluminium casement windows to first floor housed in round- and square-headed openings. Timber sash windows in segmental- and square-headed openings to ground floor. Timber panelled door with segmental overlight. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimney stacks, parapet cornice to southern wing. Four-bay mid twentieth-century chapel to east with concrete walls, coloured glazing and copper roof. Ashlar gate piers with cast-iron gates.
Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached gable-fronted church, c.1840, with three-bay nave. Coursed rubble limestone walls with ashlar west front. Paired Y-tracery timber sash windows with limestone surrounds and drip mouldings. Timber panelled doors. Pitched slate roof with modern bellcote to west. Stained glass window to east end. Three-bay single-storey vestry extension to north, c.1890. Five-bay extension to south side, c.1975, of concrete blocks with full-height slit windows and flat roof. Cast-iron entrance gates with ashlar piers.
St Mary's Church Graveyard, graveyard/cemetery, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Collection of carved limestone and cast-iron headstones, formerly contained within graveyard of adjoining church, c.1840. Headstones relocated, c.1975, and graveyard converted to carpark.
Gates/railings/walls, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Ogee-arched doorway, c.1890, set in rectangular surround having rectangular panel to each side and ogee-profile panel above. Replacement timber door. Ensemble set in random limestone boundary wall, now surrounding housing estate.
A N Blinds, gate lodge, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-bay two-storey gable-fronted former gate lodge, c.1870, now in use as commercial outlet. Random limestone walls with brick quoins. Modern timber shopfront to ground floor. Timber casement windows to first floor with stone sills and brick surrounds. Pitched slate roof with partly crested ridge. Single-storey rere projection.
Canonbrook Lodge, gate lodge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, c.1830, subsequently in use as a house though currently unoccupied. Smooth rendered walls. Timber and iron casement windows. Replacement timber door. Hipped pantile roof with wide eaves and central chimney stack. Single-storey twentieth-century extension to rere. Channelled ashlar gate piers with cast-iron gates and railings, immediately to north.
Coldblow Bridge, bridge, 1750–1780 · Regional interest
Description
Squared limestone abutment of former road bridge, c.1765, with remains of one arch having ashlar voussoirs and springing course. Surmounted by plain steel railings.
House, 1770–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Semi-detached three-bay single-storey house, c.1790, now in use as an office. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base course. Replacement timber tongue and groove door. Replacement timber sash windows. Pair of windows in gable end with plain drip mouldings. Pitched slate roof with plain terra-cotta ridge tiles. Slightly raised gable end to north with chimney stack. Shared chimney stack to south.
House, 1770–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Semi-detached four-bay single-storey house c.1780, southern bay a later extension. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base course. Glazed timber door and timber casement windows. Pitched artificial slate roof with roughcast rendered chimney stack in south gable and shared chimney stack to north. Garage extension to south. Smooth rendered wall and gate piers to street front.
Primrose Hill House, country house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey country house, c.1790, with full-height three-sided bow front to central three bays. Two-storey bowed projections on north-east and south-east elevations. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Timber panelled door with leaded fanlight and side lights, set into a simple round-headed stone archway. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base course. Hipped and pitched slate roofs with roughcast rendered chimney stacks.
Outbuilding, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached single-storey outbuilding, c. 1790, on a L-plan. Façade to north east is rendered, ruled and lined, with four-centre arched doorway having double-leaf sheet metal door and drip moulding over. Stepped crenellated parapet with corner finials and blind cross motif below drip moulding. Rubble stone walls, roughcast rendered facing yard. Pitched slate roofs. Several lean-to structures attached.
Garden, 1950–1960 · Regional interest
Description
Botanical gardens containing many rare and special plants, established in the 1950s. Stone walled garden covering flat ground sloping down to east. Ornamental objects and gate piers present.
Foot bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch footbridge, c.1800. Segmental arch of course limestone with low parapets, now partly overgrown.
Esker Burial Ground, graveyard/cemetery, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Roman Catholic cemetery, established c.1890. Low rubble stone wall with rounded coping divides central area from outer portion of cemetery. Within central area stands Celtic cross inscribed with date ‘1889’. Detached four-bay single-storey caretaker's house present within grounds, with uPVC windows and timber door set into roughcast rendered walls with stone quoins and smooth rendered base course. Pitched slate roof with brick chimney stacks. Perimeter wall to road of rubble construction with angular coping and cast-iron gates. Modern cemetery extension on opposite side of road.

Ground and risks

Radon, landslides, flooding

Radon: At the centre of the townland of Lucan and Pettycanon, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3003 (ZIP).
Flooding: The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Homes sold

Property Price Register

No address of the register names Lucan and Pettycanon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

The townland

Name: Lucan and Pettycanon · Leamhcán
Area: 1,087,935 m² (108.79 ha, 268.83 acres)
Civil parish: Lucan, and its townlands
Barony: Newcastle
Electoral division: Lucan Heights, the unit of the census
Census 2022: 5,131 people lived in 1,921 households in the Lucan Heights electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 6% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands: Ballydowd, Doddsborough, Esker North, Esker South, Glebe, Laraghcon, Lucan Demesne, St. Edmondsbury
Placenames: Lucan and Pettycanon on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.