placenamesLisronagh
Lios Ruanach
Lewis distinguished the usual uses of the parish’s stone from the large blocks obtained at one quarry.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Lios Ruanach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Lisronagh · English · main form
Place & story
Different uses for quarried stone
Limestone quarries in Lisronagh chiefly supplied agricultural uses and road repairs in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. One quarry also yielded large blocks suitable for building. He did not name the quarry, its operator or the buildings that received its stone. His description therefore establishes several uses for a local material without showing that every parish quarry produced building blocks, or that one supplied a particular church or country house. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa East
- Coordinates
- 52.40271, -7.67009
- Mapped area
- 12.37 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2307 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lisronagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lisronagh in 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.