placenamesDysart
An Díseart
At Commeen, a wayside cross and an inscribed graveslab record named people associated with the old church landscape.
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
- An Díseart · Irish · main form
- Dysart · English · main form
Place & story
Phelim and Sara O’Conor’s cross
A limestone wayside cross stands about 170 metres south of Dysart’s old church. Its inscription commemorates Phelim and Sara O’Conor and bears the date 1639. The solid ring-headed cross has chamfered edges and stands in a stone socket above a larger plinth. On one face, a carved hand holds an object described by the archaeological inventory as a hurley or club. That cautious identification does not establish a particular sporting event or biography. [2]
William Lea and his wife
Within the old church, a seventeenth-century graveslab names William Lea and his wife Annie. The National Monuments Service records Noel Dunne’s reading of its Latin inscription, which asks for prayers for them and refers to the making of the memorial. The year is incomplete in that reading. Nearby, a broken medieval slab has no inscription, preserving a distinction between a named later memorial and an earlier stone whose subject is unidentified. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Roscommon
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Coordinates
- 53.43460, -8.21646
- Mapped area
- 26.17 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2069 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dysart. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Commeen wayside cross, RO047-061---- · Michael Moore, National Monuments Service; citing A. Siggins1986
- William Lea graveslab at Dysart church, RO047-060007- · Michael Moore, National Monuments Service; inscription read by Noel Dunne
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.