placenamesLiscarroll
Lios Cearúill
The wider parish’s nineteenth-century history includes country houses, schooling and military buildings reused by labourers.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Lios Cearúill · Irish · main form · validated name
- Liscarroll · English · main form
Place & story
Pasture and country residences
Samuel Lewis described Liscarroll's land as chiefly pasture in 1837, with limestone quarried for construction and agricultural use. He identified Altamira as W. Purcell's residence, surrounded by an extensive planted demesne, and High Fort as the home of R. Purcell, a doctor. Sally Park, associated with George Bond Lowe, was already ruined. [2]
Soldiers’ quarters become homes
A barracks built near Liscarroll in 1821 had accommodation for two officers and sixty-four other soldiers. Lewis reported that the military establishment lasted only about four years. By 1837, labourers occupied the buildings. Their reuse adds a brief military episode and a subsequent residential phase to the parish's history beyond its better-known medieval castle. [2]
Parish unions and classrooms
Catholic Liscarroll headed a union that also included Churchtown, or Bruhenny. Lewis recorded plans to enlarge and repair Liscarroll's chapel. Approximately eighty children attended a national school, while two private schools taught around two hundred. The Church of Ireland vicarage was united with Kilbrin, with the church situated at Ballygraddy near the parish boundary. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Coordinates
- 52.26596, -8.79282
- Mapped area
- 16.21 km²
- Logainm ID
- 742 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Liscarroll. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Liscarrol, 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.