placenamesListerlin
Lios ar Glinn
The architectural survey records a nineteenth-century church incorporating part of its predecessor.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Lios ar Glinn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Listerlin · English · main form
Place & story
A church with more than one building phase
Saint David’s Catholic Church at Listerlin dates to about 1875 and incorporates fabric from a chapel already present before 1840, according to the 2004 architectural survey. Its cruciform plan combines a nave, north and south transepts and a shallow eastern chancel. A three-stage entrance tower rises at the west, topped by a stone pyramidal spire. The survey also singled out surviving slate hanging on the south side, a distinctive detail among the church’s retained materials. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kilkenny
- Barony
- Knocktopher
- Barony
- Ida
- Coordinates
- 52.40181, -7.05729
- Mapped area
- 22.06 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1335 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Listerlin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint David’s Catholic Church (Mullinarrigle), NIAH12403606, recorded7 December2004 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.