placenamesListooder
Lios an tSúdaire
Shops at Cock Corner, the neighbouring Rademon meeting house and a ploughing society connect Listooder's local history with worship, trade and agricultural skill.
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 an tSúdaire · Irish · main form · validated name
- Listooder · English · main form
Place & story
The neighbouring meeting house
Rademon Non-Subscribing Presbyterian meeting house on Listooder Road was built in 1787, the third meeting house on a site used by a congregation founded in 1713. The official building record describes a two-storey, T-shaped stone structure with a decorated fanlight above the entrance. Inside, panelled box pews, galleries and a tall pulpit reached by two staircases preserve the arrangement of an eighteenth-century meeting house. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century gravestones surround the building. [2]
Remembering Cock Corner
Radio producer Raymond McCullough investigated the history of a building he had bought in Listooder and published his findings in 2013. He identified the adjoining former shop and pub, known as the Cock, as the source of the hamlet's older name, Cock Corner. He also reported finding valuation records describing his own property as a house and shop between 1936 and 1957. Bottles uncovered during work on the building supplied a more tangible reminder of its commercial past. [3]
A European ploughing champion
Listooder and District Ploughing Society member William Gill won the European Vintage Ploughing Championship in the Netherlands in 2023. Farming Life reported that he took both the mounted hydraulic class and the overall title after two days of competition. Vintage classes used tractors and ploughs produced before 1959. The society celebrated his success at Temple Golf Club, marking the first time one of its members had won that European vintage title. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Castlereagh Upper
- Civil parish
- Kilmore
- Within
- Listooder
- Coordinates
- 54.39669, -5.81334 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413256 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Listooder. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rademon Unitarian meeting house, HB18/05/022 · Historic Environment Division, Department for Communities
- The Cock Corner and County Down Railway, 14 February 2013 · Raymond McCullough, Celtic Roots Radio
- Gill crowned European Ploughing champion, 3 October 2023 · Farming Life
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.