placenamesLyons
Liamhain
Lewis described Lord Cloncurry’s art collection as a resource for Irish artists as well as decoration for his house.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Liamhain · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Lyons · English · main form
Place & story
Art within a pavilion
One pavilion at Lord Cloncurry’s Lyons mansion served as a gallery of sculpture for the study of native artists, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. The pavilion belonged to a house arranged around a central block and linked wings, with semicircular colonnades. Inside, some rooms had frescoes by Gabrielli, whom Lewis says Cloncurry brought from Rome for the work. The account identifies the artist by surname only and does not specify who used the sculpture gallery. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Salt South
- Coordinates
- 53.30066, -6.55318
- Mapped area
- 7.18 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1206 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lyons. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lyons in A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.