BROWSE
townland
Lios na Seirseán
genitive: Lios na Seirseán
validated name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Lisnashearshane
(English)

Glossary

English ring-fort, enclosure

Hierarchy

county

barony

civil parish

Explanatory note

  • Gaeilge

    the ring-fort of the archers, mercenaries?
    Féach an nóta faoin bf Lios na Sasanach, par. Inis Caoin, Co. an Chabháin

  • English

    the ring-fort of the archers, mercenaries?
    See the note on the townland name Lios na Sasanach/Lisnasassonagh, par. Enniskeen, Co. Cavan

Centrepoint

52.102, -9.08377latitude, longitude
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Archival records

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Historical references

1803
Lisnasheshane
(s.n. Johana Hickey)
O'Kief Leathanach: VI, 1363
1805
Lisnashashane
Pembroke Pap. Leathanach: [19]
1811
Lissnashershane
Bath
1822
Lisnisheshane
Pembroke Pap. Leathanach: [14]
1834
Lisnasheirshane
TAB Leathanach: (2:16)
1839
Lisnashearshaun
BS:AL
1840
Lisnashearshane
McCarthy, O’Leary:AL
1840
lios na séirseán
EC:AL
1840
fort of the archers
OD:AL
1840
Lisnashearshane
Wallis, H.:AL

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