Dublin, Lucan, Ireland Begarsbush 1704
Rocque’s Survey of Dublin (1760) shows Begarsbush over three fields running north-south west of the lane south from the Lucan to Palmerston road (now the N4). The site roughly corresponds with what is now Ballyowen Park. It is opposite the gate house to the park marked Hermitage, and an area marked Woodville. Taylor’s Map of Dublin (1816) shows Beggars Bush running west-east across the same lane, and appears to show the area as being a small hill.
Bishop Donnelly wrote that in a list of “Popish Clergy” of 1704 a Father Richard Fox is recorded as residing at Beggar’s Bush “though registered (to evade the law) as P.P. of Escor (near Lucan).” Donnelly associates Fox with the Beggar’s Bush at Donnybrook, Dublin, but it seems more likely that he was actually resident at the Beggars Bush in Lucan.
The name is not shown on the 1st Edition OS Survey of 1843 or any later map. There does not appear to be any direct link to the other Beggars Bush site in Dublin, Donnybrook and is not listed in the Irish Place Names Database.
Irish Grid
O 05727 35857
Sources
Donnelly N., A Short History of Some Dublin Parishes (Dublin, 1905)
Posted: April 25th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Donnybrook, Dublin, Dublin Lucan, Ireland | No Comments »
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