placenamesLissan
Leasán
Lewis’s account concerns the wider historical parish across Tyrone and Londonderry.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Leasán · Irish · main form
- Lissan · English · main form
Place & story
Linen and agricultural work
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 entry describes a Lissan parish extending into both Tyrone and Londonderry. He reported extensive linen manufacture combined with farming, alongside limestone quarrying for agricultural use. This is his account of the wider parish economy, rather than a separate production estimate for its Tyrone portion. He supplied no annual linen output or division of the workforce between the two counties. [2]
Pikes from the Lissan ironworks
In his account of the 1641 conflict, Lewis reported that Nial O’Quin seized the Staples family’s castle for Sir Phelim O’Nial. He described workers at Sir Thomas Staples’s ironworks on the Lissan water being compelled to turn their employer’s stores into pikes and pike-heads. The account connects an existing metalworking enterprise with wartime requisitioning; it does not date the ironworks’ foundation. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.69237, -6.83681 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 63174 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lissan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lissan or Lisane: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2020-09-08. How this page was prepared.