Steam Museum, Straffan
Location
The Straffan Steam Museum is housed in a church building which once stood by the Inchicore railway works in Dublin. The church building was later moved and rebuilt in Straffan in Kildare.
The museum is located on the site of Lodge Park, a former "big house", which has an 18th-century walled garden.
Collection
This steam museum contains a collection of prototype model locomotives and live steam engines. Two of the locomotives on display were used in the late 19th century by the Great Northern Railway.
The museum also has a selection of steam engines used for industrial propulsion, including a large beam engine used in the old Midleton Whiskey Distillery, a pumping engine once employed in Jameson's Distillery in Dublin, and a beam engine installed in Smithwick's Brewery, Kilkenny, in 1847.
Operations
The museum is open to visitors from Wednesdays to Sundays during the summer, from 2pm to 6pm. It has a café and a small shop.
References
- ^ Schulze, Marco (1 January 2007). Museums of the World. de Gruyter Saur. ISBN 9783598206948.
- ^ "The Steam Museum and Lodge Park Walled Garden". discoverireland.ie. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
The Steam Museum is housed in the Victorian Gothic church building moved from Inchicore in Dublin which was originally used by railway engineers
- ^ "Lodge Park Walled Garden". kildareheritage.com. Kildare Town Heritage Centre. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ^ Campbell, Georgina; Heron, Marianne (1 January 2006). Georgina Campbell's Ireland for Garden Lovers. Georgina Campbell Guides. ISBN 9781903164143.
- ^ "The Steam Museum Kildare - Visitors Information". familyfun.ie. 10 August 2010.
- ^ Mulvihill, Mary (1 December 2003). Ingenious Ireland: A County-by-County Exploration of the Mysteries and Marvels of the Ingenious Irish. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780684020945.