placenamesTisaran
Teach Sáráin
Lewis distinguished the original building grant from the support for an 1831 enlargement.
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
- Teach Sáráin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tisaran · English · main form
Place & story
Two building campaigns
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 entry for Tessauran, now Tisaran, dated the parish church to 1806. The Board of First Fruits gave £500 in Irish currency towards that building. Its enlargement in 1831 used a different form of support: private subscriptions supplemented a £300 loan stated in British currency. Colonel L’Estrange contributed £80 on that occasion. The two board sums were neither the same kind of payment nor expressed in the same currency. [2]
Schools with different supporters
Lewis recorded a national school at High Street receiving £6 annually from a local fund and a girls’ school at Moytown supported by Mrs L’Estrange. About ninety children attended the two together. He separately counted about 130 children across two private schools. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Offaly
- Barony
- Garrycastle
- Coordinates
- 53.25266, -7.94754
- Mapped area
- 29.67 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2045 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tisaran. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tessauran — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.