placenamesLisdeen
Lios Duibhinn
The parish’s church history records the replacement of Lisdeen’s small early nineteenth-century chapel by St Flannan’s at Garraun.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Lios Duibhinn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Lisdeen · English · main form
Place & story
A church replaced in the twentieth century
Kilkee parish records a chapel at Lisdeen by 1760 and another built between 1806 and 1810. The later building had a cruciform plan and a roof of pointed flagstones. It was eventually demolished after St Flannan’s Church was built at Garraun in 1963. The replacement received its altar, seats and other furnishings from the old church at Kilkee, rather than from Lisdeen. In December 2011 a window depicting St Flannan, also transferred from Kilkee, was dedicated in its sanctuary. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Moyarta
- Civil parish
- Kilfearagh
- Within
- Lisdeen
- Coordinates
- 52.67127, -9.61154 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412565 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lisdeen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- St Flannan’s Church, Lisdeen · Kilkee Parish
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.