placenamesLiscarroll
Lios Cearúill
Community buildings and a revived sporting fixture add another chapter to Liscarroll’s history.
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 Cearúill · Irish · main form · validated name
- Liscarroll · English · main form
Place & story
From school to community centre
The community’s historical timeline dates the old national school to 1882. Its replacement, Saint Joseph’s National School, opened in 1971, leaving the earlier building to take on another public role. Gene Fitzgerald, then Minister for Labour, officially opened Liscarroll Community Centre in 1979. These dates distinguish the school building’s original purpose from its later use as a meeting place. [2]
A school extended
The same local timeline records a major refurbishment and extension of the national school in 2006, followed by the official opening of its autism unit in 2010. The school’s development thus continued well after the move of 1971. [2]
Racing revived
Liscarroll’s timeline dates the revived race committee’s first point-to-point meeting to 26 April 1954. Its racing page also records Denman winning his maiden here as a five-year-old in 2005, before his later Cheltenham Gold Cup success. This is a documented sporting association rather than a claim that the modern fixture has run continuously since the district’s earliest races. [2] [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Liscarroll. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Liscarroll community timeline, credited to D. O’Cainte · Liscarroll community website; timeline credited to D. O’Cainte
- Liscarroll point-to-point racing · Liscarroll community website, citing Irish Point-to-Point Services
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.