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Lisdoo

An Lios Dubh

A development-site investigation found overlapping roundhouse traces with an uncertain date.

Watercolour and fine ink view of the Lisdoo building, with a grey stone frontage, projecting two-storey glazed corner and lower burgundy entrance wing.
Illustration, the Lisdoo Bar and Restaurant on Newry Road near Dundalk, as photographed in May 2010
Recorded locationLisdoo54.02164° N · 6.40253° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

dubhblackliosring-fort, enclosure

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 Lios Dubh · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Lisdoo · English · main form

Place & story

Several buildings on a hillside

William O. Frazer’s 2009 testing covered land mainly in Lisdoo, extending west into the Sportsmans Mall area. Across that development site, investigators identified at least five or six oval roundhouses on a south-facing slope. Their remains included foundation slots, post-holes and hearth pits. Two buildings overlapped, showing that the group was not all contemporary. No dating evidence was recovered from the roundhouses: Frazer considered either a Bronze Age or an early medieval date most likely. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Louth
Civil parish
Dundalk
Coordinates
54.02164, -6.40253
Mapped area
0.49 km²
Logainm ID
33950 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Lisdoo. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Lisdoo, Armagh Road: 2009:AD14, licence 09E0156 · William O. Frazer
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. The Lisdoo Bar and Restaurant on Newry Road near Dundalk illustration: based on a The Lisdoo Bar and Restaurant , Newry Road by Eric Jones. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.