placenamesLissan
Leasán
Lissan House’s transition into a heritage attraction owed much to its last resident owner, Hazel Dolling.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Leasán · Irish · main form · validated name
- Lissan · English · main form
Place & story
An estate held in trust
Lissan House developed over successive generations of the Staples family. The Architectural Heritage Fund traces its beginnings to Thomas Staples in the seventeenth century, with substantial work by his son Robert in 1660 and further alterations by later owners. In 2006 the house, estate and historic collections passed from Hazel Dolling to a trust for community benefit. Public opening followed in 2007, with restoration continuing over the next five years. [2]
Hazel Dolling’s campaign
The Lissan House Trust records that Hazel returned to Lissan in 1965. After her husband Harry died in 1986, she managed the estate alone. In 1997 she established a charitable trust to preserve it, and she led the campaign that brought the house national attention through the BBC Restoration television series in 2003. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Upper
- Civil parish
- Lissan
- Coordinates
- 54.67967, -6.75959 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414271 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lissan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lissan House: Project of the week · Architectural Heritage Fund
- Lissan House and Demesne: About · Lissan House Trust
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-01-25. How this page was prepared.