placenamesLissacresig
Lios an Chraosaigh
Lissacresig's ringfort and stone circle belong to a protected archaeological landscape; Daniel Harrington's testimony records a much later chapter of life in the surrounding district.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Lios an Chraosaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Lissacresig · English · main form
- Lissacreasig · English · main form
Place & story
Two monuments in State care
The National Monuments Service lists both a stone circle and a ringfort in Lissacresig under national monument number 571. The circle is recorded as a five-stone example, with a separate archaeological reference from the ringfort. An inventory of sites in the townland also lists three individual standing stones, extending the recorded archaeological landscape beyond the two monuments in State care. [2] [3]
Daniel Harrington’s early life
Daniel Harrington gave his address as Coolavokig, Lissacresig, Macroom, when recording his experiences for the Bureau of Military History. He recalled being born at Coolavokig on 29 June 1891 and attending the local national school before continuing at Reenaree until he was sixteen. His statement preserves a personal connection between the Lissacresig postal district and the neighbouring communities in which his childhood and later political activity unfolded. [4]
Joining the Volunteers in 1915
Harrington remembered joining a short-lived Irish National Volunteers company at Kilnamartyra early in 1915. He later enrolled in an Irish Volunteers company at Ballyvourney, where he was then living. In his account, Terence MacSwiney, Seán Nolan and John Lynch addressed a recruiting meeting; Nolan subsequently drilled the new members. The recollection distinguishes those organisations and locations, placing one local man's changing commitments within the wider mobilisation of the period. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Civil parish
- Clondrohid
- Within
- Lissacresig
- Coordinates
- 51.91349, -9.06101 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412888 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lissacresig. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- National Monuments in State Care, County Cork, page 5 · National Monuments Service
- Archaeological site inventory, Cork sheet 70, Lissacresig entries · Environmental Protection Agency document repository
- Witness statement 1532, Daniel Harrington, opening page · Daniel Harrington, Bureau of Military History
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