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

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during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland and was present at the

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. He was granted lands around Corofin in

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as part of the

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of 1652.Irish Townlands p.99 He was the

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of the Irish radical

Charles Lucas Sir Charles Lucas, 1613 to 28 August 1648, was a professional soldier from Essex, who served as a Royalist cavalry leader during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Taken prisoner at the end of the First English Civil War in March 1646, he was rel ...

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