Tales from a drowned valley – the flooding of the Blessington Lake

Tales from a drowned valley – the flooding of the Blessington Lake

Tales from a drowned valley - the flooding of the Blessington Lake

When

6 October 2025    
7:45 pm - 8:45 pm
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Where

Celbridge Community Library
St Patrick's Park, Celbridge, County Kildare, W23 VA47

Event Type

Celbridge Historical Society

Our AGM is planned for Monday 6 October at 7.15pm in Celbridge Library.
It will be followed at 7.45pm by a talk by Seamus Cullen: ‘Tales from a drowned valley: the flooding of the Blessington Lake’.

“At 10.00am on 3rd March 1940, the sluice gate diverting the River Liffey around the Poulaphouca Dam was closed and the Poulaphouca Reservoir began to fill.
6500 acres of land had been cleared to make way for the reservoir and 76 houses were lost to the floodwaters including the entirety of the townland of Ballinahown”.