Steam Museum, Straffan
An Músaem Innealtóireachta | |
An Ingersoll Rand air compressor, Imperial Type 10 (c. 1912) | |
Location within County Kildare | |
| Established | 1988[1] |
|---|---|
| Location | Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland |
| Coordinates | 53°18′42″N 6°35′56″W / 53.311715°N 6.598973°W |
| Type | Steam museum |
| Public transit access | Straffan bus stop (Bus Éireann routes 120, 121, 123) |
| Website | steam-museum |
The Steam Museum & Lodge Park Walled Garden is a steam museum and tourist destination in Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland.
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.[2]
The museum is located on the site of Lodge Park, a former "big house", which has an 18th-century walled garden.[3]
Collection
This steam museum contains a collection of prototype model locomotives and live steam engines.[4][5][6] Two of the locomotives on display were used in the late 19th century by the Great Northern Railway.[5]
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.
- ^ a b "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.