An Músaem Innealtóireachta | |
Established | 1988 [1] |
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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.
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]
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.[ citation needed]
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.[ citation needed]
The Steam Museum is housed in the Victorian Gothic church building moved from Inchicore in Dublin which was originally used by railway engineers
An Músaem Innealtóireachta | |
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.
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]
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.[ citation needed]
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.[ citation needed]
The Steam Museum is housed in the Victorian Gothic church building moved from Inchicore in Dublin which was originally used by railway engineers