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Recorded forms
Lios Ruanach· Irish · main form · validated name
Lisronagh· English · main form
Place & story
The remains of a medieval borough
Lisronagh preserves traces of a medieval settlement whose later course differed from nearby Clonmel and Fethard. An archaeological report describes surviving castle ruins, remnants of the borough and an old roadway. Testing for a particular development in 1996 found no archaeological remains within that site; it did not establish an absence of archaeology across Lisronagh. The surviving features belong to a settlement that once extended beyond the small modern village.[2]
The roofless church
The ruined Church of Ireland church was built in 1831–32 on the site of its medieval predecessor. Dismantled in 1923, it retains a limestone tower with pinnacles and battlements, pointed windows and a decorated Tudor-arched entrance. The graveyard includes table tombs and nineteenth-century memorials. Together with the neighbouring tower house, the church forms a conspicuous group within the remains of the earlier settlement.[3]
The school beside the old site
Lisronagh National School's history identifies a parish schoolhouse in documents from 1850, while leaving the exact foundation date unresolved. An early girls' school later became co-educational and remained on its original site until 1963. A replacement opened beside it that year. Further classrooms in 1993 and a major 2008–09 building programme marked later growth, continuing the educational use of this part of the locality.[4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Lisronagh — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Lisronagh, South Tipperary
Published census settlement populations
184people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
Lisronagh Castle ruin, County Tipperary illustration: based on a Castles of Munster: Lisronagh, Tipperary (1) by Mike Searle. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
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