Show Ireland Mother of Croquet Ireland appears to have been the mother of croquet A London ivory turner has produced evidence from the books of ot his firm that the firm was making croquet sets for export solely to Ireland as far back as 1837 In the annals of the Lonsdale Lansdale family it has been discovered that it was the Irish Miss MacNaughton who taught Lord Lonsdale's sporting family the game in 1850 And it was the Lonsdale family who popularized it on the English lawns of ot that pe pe- period nod What seems uncertain is la whether the Irish invented the game or merely took it over from the Res Res- Restoration Restoration Restoration game of ot Paille Maille after niter which the street Pall Mall u la supposed to have been named |