placenamesMountlucas
Droim Cáithe
A former steward’s house, a wind farm on cutaway bog and a specialist training campus show different stages in the working landscape around Mountlucas.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Droim Cáithe · Irish · main form · validated name
- Mountlucas · English · main form
Place & story
A surviving estate building
The former steward’s house at Esker Beg preserves part of the service landscape associated with the demolished Mount Lucas House. Built around 1820, it has a compact two-storey frontage and a round-headed entrance with a carefully worked stone surround and petal-shaped fanlight. The architectural inventory also draws attention to its split-level stone outbuilding. These smaller buildings retain evidence of the estate after the loss of its main residence. [2]
Power from the cutaway bog
Mountlucas Wind Farm was commissioned in 2014 on cutaway peatland near Daingean. Its operator records twenty-eight turbines with an installed capacity of 84 megawatts. The wider bog covers about 1,100 hectares and belongs to the Derrygreenagh group. The project also developed a walking and cycling amenity and a learning hub explaining wind-energy technology, giving the former peat-production landscape additional uses beyond electricity generation. [3]
A campus built for training
Mountlucas also became a centre for construction training. A project account by Chancery Group records the building of a 700-square-metre workshop with a two-storey teaching area at the National Construction Training Centre in 2019. Poor ground conditions required piled foundations beneath the steel-framed structure. The existing training facilities continued operating during construction, allowing the campus to expand while courses were still being delivered. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Offaly
- Barony
- Coolestown
- Civil parish
- Ballynakill
- Coordinates
- 53.29976, -7.21997 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1375248 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Mountlucas. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Esker Beg: former steward’s house,14919010 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- The Wind Farm: Mountlucas project and location · Mountlucas Wind Farm / Bord na Móna
- Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board Training Centre:2019 project · Chancery Group
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.