placenamesLisgrea
Lios Cré
A family shop and roadhouse became entangled with decades of plans to bypass Virginia.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Lios Cré · Irish · main form · validated name
- Lisgrea · English · main form
Place & story
A shop beside a proposed road
In a 2021 interview, TP O’Reilly recalled his father Peter seeking permission for petrol pumps beside the shop he ran with his wife Mary in late 1968. The council refused because a proposed Virginia bypass might cross the site. The couple subsequently established Lisgrey House farther along the road. Their son Philip was running that business when another preferred bypass route was announced in 2021. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Civil parish
- Lurgan
- Within
- Lisgrea
- Coordinates
- 53.86517, -7.11828 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412331 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lisgrea. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mixed feelings as N3 bypass route selected (28 August 2021) · Seamus Enright, Anglo Celt
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.