Steam Museum, Straffan

The Steam Museum & Lodge Park Walled Garden is a steam museum and tourist destination in Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland.

The Steam Museum
An Músaem Innealtóireachta
An Ingersoll Rand air compressor, Imperial Type 10 (c. 1912)
Location within Ireland
Established1988[1]
LocationLodge Park, Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland
Coordinates53.311715°N 6.598973°W / 53.311715; -6.598973
TypeSteam museum
Public transit accessStraffan bus stop (Bus Éireann routes 120, 121, 123)
Websitesteam-museum.com
Lodge Park "big house"

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.

gollark: Or, well, less since hammers have balance stuff, but it's still quite fast.
gollark: Ah yes, mining 9 times as fast is soøøøøøøøø useless.
gollark: You put on a Blast Protection suit, and go to the nether roof, and a TNT cannon propels you in the direction you want.
gollark: How about, nether TNT cannon networks?
gollark: Hmm, nether viaduct networks, interesting iðeæ.

References
  1. Schulze, Marco (1 January 2007). "Museums of the World". de Gruyter Saur.
  2. "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
  3. "Lodge Park Walled Garden". kildareheritage.com. Kildare Town Heritage Centre. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  4. Campbell, Georgina; Heron, Marianne (1 January 2006). "Georgina Campbell's Ireland for Garden Lovers". Georgina Campbell Guides.
  5. "The Steam Museum Kildare - Visitors Information". familyfun.ie. 10 August 2010.
  6. Mulvihill, Mary (1 December 2003). "Ingenious Ireland: A County-by-County Exploration of the Mysteries and Marvels of the Ingenious Irish". Simon and Schuster.
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