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Danger Lurking in Shadows
by Annette Black, Wicklow — 22nd August 2013
The frivolous indulgences of genteel society types who flocked to Lucan up to the mid-1800s, starkly contrasted with the lives of their blighted fellow countrymen, the desperate poor. While one group took to the health enhancing waters, danced until dawn and negotiated mutually beneficial marriages, the other fought man and...
Lucan Bridge
Built in 1813
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Lucan in the 1700s
by Annette Black, Wicklow — 21st August 2013
Ladies and gentlemen of comfortable means could think of nothing more delightful than taking a few days at the Lucan Spa. The young came to dance until dawn, mothers to assess marriage prospects for their daughters and the cultured to set up their easel on the riverbank and paint the...
Lucan Bridge
Built in 1813