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Liskeveen

Lios Caoimhín

The house, courtyard and entrance bridge form a surviving country-house group.

Watercolour and fine ink view of a roofless rectangular stone castle shell in green pasture, with irregular openings, broken wall tops and patches of ivy.
Illustration, the surviving castle shell at Liskeveen near Littleton, County Tipperary, as photographed in June 2023
Recorded locationLiskeveen52.61484° N · 7.73429° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

liosring-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

  • Lios Caoimhín · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Liskeveen · English · main form

Place & story

An addition to the entrance

The architectural inventory dates Liskeveen House to about 1800 and its projecting entrance porch to about 1860. The porch combines round-headed windows, ornamental ironwork and a triangular pediment, adding a more elaborate entrance to the earlier two-storey building. Stone outbuildings enclose an extensive courtyard to the east. The approach crosses a single-arch bridge with dressed limestone arch stones, piers and a balustrade, linking the house’s architecture with its garden setting. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tipperary
Barony
Eliogarty
Civil parish
Ballymurreen
Coordinates
52.61484, -7.73429
Mapped area
5.94 km²
Logainm ID
46925 ↗

People & family history

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

1901 census

61People recorded
12Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Harris 7
  • Slattery 7
  • Lloyd 5
  • ONeill 5
  • Daunt 4
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1926 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Liskeveen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Liskeveen House, NIAH 22404806, North Tipperary survey 2004 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. The surviving castle shell at Liskeveen, County Tipperary illustration: based on a Castles of Munster: Liskeveen, Tipperary (1) by Mike Searle. 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.