Benjamin Lucas was an English soldier of the seventeenth century who served and settled in Ireland. Lucas served as a colonel during the

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and was present at the Siege of Drogheda. He was granted lands around Corofin in County Clare as part of the Cromwellian Settlement of 1652.Irish Townlands p.99 He was the great-grandfather of the Irish

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Charles Lucas who served as MP for Dublin City.

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* Paul Connell, Denis A. Cronin & Brian Ó Dálaigh. ''Irish Townlands: Studies in Local History''. Four Courts, 1998. 17th-century Irish landowners Irish soldiers English soldiers English emigrants to Ireland People from Corofin, County Clare {{mil-bio-stub