placenamesLisnastrean
Lios na Srian
Before it became Legacurry Presbyterian Church, a nineteenth-century congregation bore the name Lisnastrean.
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 na Srian · Irish · main form · validated name
- Lisnastrean · English · main form
Place & story
A congregation before a church building
The congregational history written by J. M. Magowan records Lisnastrean as the original name of the congregation that became Legacurry Presbyterian Church. Phineas Whiteside was ordained to its pastoral charge on 19 August 1841. Before obtaining a permanent church, the congregation used the schoolhouse at Cabra new bridge, locally called Purg, as a mission station. [2]
In 1843 Robert Morrow of Legacurry House gave the congregation a church and graveyard site in Legacurry townland. The church opened on 27 March 1844. That move explains the later Legacurry name; it does not place the surviving church building within Lisnastrean. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Castlereagh Upper
- Civil parish
- Drumbeg
- Within
- Lisnastrean
- Coordinates
- 54.48096, -6.00947 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413255 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lisnastrean. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Legacurry Presbyterian Church: Our Story · J. M. Magowan
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.