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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...

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  Lucan Bridge

  Built in 1813

• 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...

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  Lucan Bridge

  Built in 1813