placenamesFour Roads
Tigh Srathra
Four Roads has a documented nineteenth-century chapel, an award-winning local conservation project and a celebrated hurling tradition.
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
- Tigh Srathra · Irish · main form · validated name
- Four Roads · English · main form
Place & story
The chapel recorded in 1837
Samuel Lewis's 1837 account of Tisrara parish locates its Catholic chapel at Four Roads. It was then a small thatched building in poor condition. His parish-wide description also lists two subscription-supported schools and four hedge schools. The entry records modest places of worship and education in the surrounding countryside, without locating all those schools within the village itself. [2]
Conserving Tisrara’s medieval remains
The Four Roads–Tisrara Tidy Towns Committee received the Heritage Council's heritage initiative award in 1997. The £2,000 prize recognised its conservation of Tisrara's medieval church and graveyard. Local research accompanied that practical work: the restoration committee had published Jim Higgins's archaeological and historical study of the church at Carrowntemple in 1995. Conservation and a substantial written account thus developed together around the site. [3] [4]
A Connacht hurling title
Four Roads hurling club dates its foundation to 1904. Its outstanding provincial success came in 1988, when it defeated Galway champions Abbeyknockmoy in the Connacht senior club final and qualified for an All-Ireland semi-final. A later GAA interview records how deeply hurling shaped local childhood, with players recalling going to matches with their fathers and beginning the game at an early age. [5]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Roscommon
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Civil parish
- Tisrara
- Coordinates
- 53.51776, -8.22616 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 134140 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Four Roads. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tisrara,TopographicalDictionary1837 · Samuel Lewis
- HeritageCouncilAnnualReport1997:TidyTownsAward · The Heritage Council
- TheTisraramedievalchurch,Carrowntemple,1995 · National Library of Ireland,catalogue of JimHiggins study
- FourRoadsstillputtingRoscommonhurlingonthemap · GAA,primary player interview
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.