placenamesLislap
Lios Leapa
Postal historian Tony Graham’s newspaper research preserves a brief account of refuge at Lislap in the winter of 1867.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Lios Leapa · Irish · main form · validated name
- Lislap · English · main form
Place & story
Stranded between Omagh and Gortin
A Tyrone Chronicle report dated 11 January 1867 recorded the effects of a blizzard at Lislap Post Office. Postmaster John McFarland provided shelter for 45 people stranded between Omagh and Gortin. The incident survives in notes made by postal historian Tony Graham while researching the newspaper’s 1857–68 issues, later published in Irish Philately. It records the post office serving as a place of emergency refuge as well as a link in the postal network. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lislap. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tweetings from Tyrone, Irish Philately, December 2013, page 93 · Irish Philatelic Circle editor, publishing research notes of Tony Graham
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2010-04-19. How this page was prepared.