placenamesLisbane
An Lios Bán
A restored thatched building found a new use as a village meeting place.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Lios Bán · Irish · main form · validated name
- Lisbane · English · main form
Place & story
Returning a derelict building to use
The Old Post Office’s own history dates the building to the 1840s. Alison and Trevor Smylie acquired it in 2004 after fourteen years of dereliction. The former postal building became tea rooms, with a kitchen shop and space for locally made crafts. [2]
Thatch and bog oak
The owners’ restoration account records local help with the work, the use of local bog oak where possible and restoration of the thatched roof. The building stands on the road through Lisbane between Comber and Downpatrick. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Castlereagh Lower
- Civil parish
- Tullynakill
- Within
- Lisbane
- Coordinates
- 54.50300, -5.73046 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413253 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lisbane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- History of the Old Post Office, Lisbane · The Old Post Office, Lisbane
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.