placenamesLiscolman
Lios Cholmáin
Liscolman’s mill and watercourse form a recognisable industrial landscape, while pottery and stone tools record much earlier activity nearby.
The name
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 Cholmáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Liscolman · English · main form
Place & story
The mill and its water landscape
The old mill complex is a defining feature of Liscolman. The Northern Area Plan identifies its chimney as a local landmark and links the hamlet’s character with its bridge and a stream flowing north towards the Stracam River. The plan groups the former mill, associated buildings and former millpond within a landscape policy area, recognising the industrial site as a connected group rather than a single building. [2]
Stone tools beneath later development
Archaeological monitoring in Straidbilly townland, on the northern side of Liscolman, recovered prehistoric material in 2002. Robert Chapple’s report lists pottery, part of a polished porcellanite axehead, flint scrapers and other worked flints recovered from spoil. Three areas requiring further investigation were also identified. Because these were preliminary monitoring results, the report establishes prehistoric activity without supplying a complete account of the site’s occupation. [3]
The Liscolman food vessel
Ballycastle Museum’s collection includes a Bronze Age pottery food vessel from Liscolman. Its zig-zag surface decoration is highlighted in the museum’s 2026 interpretative design report, which proposes tactile reproductions to help visitors examine the pattern. This object provides a separate surviving link with the area’s prehistoric past; the museum does not identify it as one of the finds from the 2002 monitoring. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Dunluce Lower
- Civil parish
- Billy
- Coordinates
- 55.16144, -6.46222 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 62040 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Liscolman. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Northern Area Plan 2016, Volume 2, Liscolman, printed page 208 · Department of the Environment; Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council
- 2002:0027, Straidbilly, licence AE/02/51 · Robert M. Chapple, NAC Ltd.; Excavations.ie
- Ballycastle Museum Interpretative Design Report, February 2026, page 53 · Ballycastle Museum and Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.