Lodge Park, Straffan, Co. Kildare

 

This museum is housed, appropriately, in a church which once stood in the Inchicore railway works in Dublin.

Inside the museum, there's a fine collection of models of steam locomotives, including two used in the late 19th century by the Great Northern Railway.

The museum also has a fine selection of steam engines used for industrial propulsion, including a huge beam engine used in the Midleton whiskey distillery in County Cork, a pumping engine employed in Jameson's distillery in Dublin, and a large beam engine installed in Smithwick's brewery, Kilkenny, in 1847. Steaming Kettle tearoom.

Admission Rates to Steam Museum & Lodge Park Walled Garden:

Adults - €7.50
Child/OAP/Student/Group of twenty - €5.00
Family admission - €20.00
Horticultural/Technology Student with card - FOC.

Last update : 26th Nov 2008