placenamesLisnagelvin
Lios Mhic Dhuibhleacháin
A wave machine helped make the leisure centre a familiar destination for generations of families.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Lios Mhic Dhuibhleacháin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Lisnagelvin · English · main form
Place & story
A municipal leisure centre
Lisnagelvin Leisure Centre opened on 17 April 1980. Reporting its twenty-fifth anniversary, Brendan McDaid recorded the council’s estimate of four million visits since opening. An aerobics studio and fitness suite had been added in 1994. [2]
The final announcement
The centre closed in 2015, when the Foyle Arena replaced it. A closing-day film by former staff member Maureen Allan preserved its interior. Derry News recalled receptionist Elaine McIntyre returning from retirement to make the familiar changing-room announcement one last time. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Derry
- Barony
- Tirkeeran
- Civil parish
- Clondermot
- Within
- Lisnagelvin
- Coordinates
- 54.98944, -7.29692 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413331 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lisnagelvin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mayor gets physical for anniversary · Brendan McDaid, Belfast Telegraph
- WATCH: Lisnagelvin Leisure Centre memories — Red armbands to the changing room please (12 January 2024) · Derry News staff reporter
- Lisnagelvin Leisure Centre as photographed in January 2006 illustration: based on a Lisnagelvin Leisure Centre by Kenneth Allen. 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 2011-12-06. How this page was prepared.