placenamesLisnakill
Lios na Cille
Lewis’s 1837 account records former quarrying in the parish’s north-west and a house already taken down at Whitfield.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Lios na Cille · Irish · main form · validated name
- Lisnakill · English · main form
Place & story
Changes recorded before the Famine
Samuel Lewis reported that good roofing slate had formerly been quarried at the north-western end of Lisnakill parish. His 1837 entry did not state when that work began or ceased. At Whitfield, he noted that the mansion associated with W. Christmas had recently been taken down, without giving a demolition year or describing a replacement. Schooling appears separately in the account: about one hundred and thirty children attended a school at Butlerstown under the National Board. These are observations about the Waterford parish in Lewis’s period, without identifying the precise quarry or school site today. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Coordinates
- 52.21761, -7.21746
- Mapped area
- 8.99 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2412 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lisnakill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lisnakill, 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.