People and Places of Galway

Standard Name:

Lissgeevy Parish

Irish Form of Name:

Lios Giabhaigh

Translation:

Giabhach’s Fort

Civil Parish:

Lissgeevy Parish
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Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:

Lissgeevy Parish
Lissgeevy Parish Boundary S. Sketch Map
Lisskeevy Carlisle’s Topl. Dictionary
Liskenny Down Survey 1655
Liskeevoy Printed Townland List

Comment:

See townland

Situation:

In the Barony of Dunmore bounded on the N. by the parishes of Addragoole, Crossboyne and Dunmore, on the S. by the parish of Tuam and Kilbannon in the Barony of Dunmore and on the W. by the parishes of Kilbannon, Kilconly and Crossboyne, the Barony of Dunmore.

Information from the Ordnance Survey Letters:

The Ordnance Survey Letters are letters between John O'Donovan and his supervisor, Thomas Larcom, regarding the work of compiling the Field Books. These letters provide further discussion on many of the places listed in the Field Books.

References to this place can be found in the following letters.

Volume 1 page 27
Volume 1 page 29

Translation according to P. W. Joyce:

Lis, Liss (Irish Lios), an ancient fort. See vol. i.p. 271. In the majority of cases the second part of a ik's - name is personal, viz. the name of the person who owned the lis when it got the name. The interpretation of many such names is obvious at a glance : no one could mistake the meaning of such names as Lismacrory, Lisdonnell, Lisgorman, and hundreds like them. The most usual gen. of lios is leasa, but sometimes we find gen. lis or less, which when occurring in names is pronounced Ui>\ as in Letter-tinlish and Tullylish.

Information about Lissgeevy Parish

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Information From Joyce's Place Names