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Lucan

Lucan is a suburban village to the west of , Ireland, located 12 km from Dublin city centre, on the . It is near the Strawberry Beds and Lucan Weir, and at the confluence of the River Griffeen.
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  • Type: Town with 15,300 residents
  • Description: town in County Dublin South, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Lucan, Dublin”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Luttrellstown Castle and Adamstown.

Castle
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is a castellated house located in on the outskirts of , dating from the early 15th century. It has been owned variously by the eponymous and notorious Luttrell family, by the bookseller Luke White and his descendants Baron Annaly, by the Guinness family, the Primwest Group, and since 2006, by JP McManus, John Magnier and Aidan Brooks.

Railway station
Photo: William Murphy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
railway station is a station on the Dublin to Kildare Commuter service. It serves the new town of and South Western Commuter services call to the station. is situated 2½ km southwest of Lucan.

Railway station
Photo: ANDREW POYNTON, CC BY 2.0.
is a railway station in the north-eastern corner of , . It is one of two stations that serve the civil parish of Leixlip, the other being . Both stations lie on the Dublin to commuter route. is situated 3 km northwest of Lucan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Leixlip and Clonsilla.

Town
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is a town in north-east , Ireland. Its location on the confluence of the and the Rye Water has marked it as a frontier town historically: on the border between the ancient kingdoms of and Brega, as an outpost of The Pale, and on Kildare's border with . is situated 3 km west of Lucan.

Village
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is a northwestern suburb of in , Ireland. is also a civil parish in the barony of Castleknock in . is situated 3½ km northeast of Lucan.

Village
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is a western suburb of , . Developed on a greenfield basis since 2001, it lies within parts of the townlands of Castaheany and "Hansfield or Phibblestown", within the ancient Barony of Castleknock, County Dublin. is situated 4½ km north of Lucan.

Lucan

Latitude
53.35672° or 53° 21′ 24″ north
Longitude
-6.45015° or 6° 27′ 1″ west
Population
15,300
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IE LKY
Open location code
9C5M9G4X+MW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52246971
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2962785
Wiki­data ID
Q1798906
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Urdu—“Lucan” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Lucan”
  • Belarusian: “Лукан”
  • Catalan: “Lucan”
  • Cebuano: “Lucan”
  • Chinese: “卢肯”
  • Chinese: “盧肯”
  • Dutch: “Lucan”
  • French: “Lucan”
  • German: “Lucan”
  • Irish: “Leamhcán”
  • Italian: “Lucan”
  • Japanese: “ルーカン”
  • Lithuanian: “Lucanas”
  • Lithuanian: “Lukanas”
  • Ossetian: “Лукан”
  • Persian: “لوکان”
  • Polish: “Lucan”
  • Russian: “Лукан”
  • Spanish: “Lucan”
  • Swedish: “Lucan”
  • Urdu: “لوکن، ڈبلن”
  • Urdu: “لوکن”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lucan”. Photo: Ro55box, CC BY-SA 4.0.