placenamesLisgenan or Grange
Lios Géibheannáin nó An Ghráinsigh
Lewis records seaweed gathered for farmland and the seasonal use of Grange Lodge.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Lios Géibheannáin nó An Ghráinsigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Lisgenan or Grange · English · main form
Place & story
Seaweed from the Cove
Samuel Lewis described abundant seaweed obtained at the Cove in Lisgenan parish and used as manure in 1837. His account places the parish on the river Licky near the coast and records caves in its cliffs, with Goats’ Island offshore. The shore supplied a farming material as well as forming a distinctive part of the parish landscape. [2]
A residence for the bathing season
At Whiting Bay, Grange Lodge was an occasional residence of Sir Richard Musgrave during the bathing season. Lewis’s description records seasonal occupation rather than establishing the lodge as Musgrave’s permanent home or dating its construction. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Decies-within-Drum
- Coordinates
- 51.98677, -7.73621
- Mapped area
- 23.31 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2410 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lisgenan or Grange. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lisgenan or Grange: 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.