Lismore, in the territory of the Cenél Loairn, was sufficiently important for the death of its abbots to be recorded with some frequency.

However, there appears to be no religious site of the importance of Lismore in the lands of the rival Cenél Loairn.

Boyle was born in Lismore Castle, in County Waterford, Ireland, the seventh son and fourteenth child of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork and Catherine Fenton.

Catherine Fenton was the daughter of English writer Geoffrey Fenton, who was born in Dublin in 1539, and Alice Weston, the daughter of Robert Weston, who was born in Lismore in 1541.

He was returned as a Member of Parliament for Lismore ( at a Parliament held in the Castle of Dublin ) on 18 May 1614.

The town of Lismore was named after Lismore Township which, in turn, was named after a village in County Waterford, Ireland, noted for its beautiful castle.

The name for Lismore Township was suggested by Father C. J. Knauf of Adrian.

The Bank of Lismore opened its doors on September 1, 1900, and was incorporated as the State Bank of Lismore three months later.

On December 6, 1901, the Lismore Leader was able to boast:

Lismore, Minnesota was a course in Need for Speed: The Run

Organization of Lismore Township was approved by the Nobles County Board on July 21, 1880.

The town of Lismore, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1902 and named after the township

The castle site was originally occupied by Lismore Abbey, an important monastery and seat of learning established in the early 7th century.

In 1589, Lismore was leased and later acquired by Sir Walter Raleigh.

Some restoration was carried out by Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork ( 1612-1698 ) to make it habitable again but neither he nor his successors lived at Lismore.

Lismore was always the Bachelor Duke's favourite residence, but as he grew older his love for the place developed into a passion.

In 2004 The Robert Boyle Science Room was opened nearby in the Lismore Heritage Centre dedicated to his life and works where students have the opportunity of studying science and participating in scientific experiments.

Recently Lismore Castle was used as Northanger Abbey in the 2007 ITV dramatisation of that name during its Jane Austen season.

His father was transferred in 1862 to a similar position in Lismore, County Waterford, holding the post until his death in 1906.

The single most important source for the Fenian Cycle is the Acallam na Senórach ( Colloquy of the Old Men ), which is found in two 15th century manuscripts, the Book of Lismore and Laud 610, as well as a 17th century manuscript from Killiney, County Dublin.

Father C. J. Knauf played an important role in the settlement of Lismore

Father C. J. Knauf played an important role in the settlement of Lismore Township

This state based road forms an important link between Ballina and Casino via Lismore.

The single most important source for the Fenian Cycle is the Acallam na Senórach ( Colloquy of the Old Men ), which is found in two 15th century manuscripts, the Book of Lismore and Laud 610, as well as a 17th century manuscript from Killiney, County Dublin.

Boyle bought Sir Walter Raleigh's estates of for £ 1, 500 (£ as of ), in the counties of Cork ( including Lismore Castle ), Waterford, and Tipperary and Youghal in 1602.

* Mountain Lodge, Co. Tipperary for Viscount Lismore.

Lismore, for a place only a little over one year old, has made good and substantial growth ... Lismore has one bank, two general merchants, one furniture store, two saloons, two pool rooms, two lumber yards, three elevators, four coal dealers, one hotel, one hardware store, two machinery firms, one blacksmith shop, one livery stable, one dray line, and one newspaper.

In honor of the Irish settlers, Father C. J. Knauf, the parish priest in Adrian and Bishop Ireland's colonization agent in Nobles County, suggested the name Lismore, after a village in County Waterford, Ireland, noted for its beautiful castle.

A place was left open for Lismore, in the sense that only eleven dioceses were declared under Cashel.

From the Townley Hall collection he reprinted several manuscripts and edited Sir John Eliot's works, Sir Richard Boyle's Lismore Papers, and various publications for the Chetham Society, the Camden Society and the Roxburghe Club.

The Murwillumbah – Byron Bay – Lismore railway ( opened in 1894 ) was extended to Grafton in 1905 ; for details, see Murwillumbah railway line.

She is a patron of Sustrans, a British charity for sustainable travel and of the Lismore Immrama Festival of Travel Writing.

Since returning to Australia in 1994, Kats-Chernin has written four operas (: Iphis, 1997, Sydney ; Matricide, the Musical, 1998, Melbourne ; Mr Barbeque, 2002, Lismore ; Rage of Life, 2010, Antwerp ), two piano concertos and compositions for many performers and ensembles, including The Song Company, the Sydney Alpha Ensemble, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Chamber Made Opera, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony.

One hypothesis is that Jane Wilson was responsible for naming the location for Lismore, Scotland, where the couple had honeymooned.

To modern eyes it seems an isolated location for such a centre, but in an era when the fastest and most reliable transport was by water, Lismore was ideally situated.

She was educated at the Carlisle County School for Girls ( now called St Aidan's County High School since 1970 ) on Lismore Place ; Prince Henry's Grammar School in Otley ; and Clifton College, Nottingham, where she was awarded a BEd degree in 1972.

Plans were drawn up for elegant streets radiating from Lismore Circus but after two railway lines were extended across the area the first buildings were two-and three-story cottages for " navvies and quarrelsome shoemakers.

After the Bachelor Duke's death Lismore remained substantially unaltered.

For twenty years after the death in 1022 of Mael Secnaill II, many claimants sought the throne and during this period the Chief Government of Ireland was vested in the persons of two men: Cuán O Lóchán, the King's chief poet, and Corcran of Lismore, an Erenagh.

Lismore owes its existence to the building of the Burlington Railroad through northeast Nobles County.

At its broadest definition, during the New England New State Movement the New England Region included the northern coastal lowlands of New South Wales, known as the Mid North Coast and Northern Rivers region, and including cities such as Lismore and Grafton.

The post office which brought the surrounding areas its post closed down, relocating to Lismore.

Argyll was also a medieval bishopric with its cathedral at Lismore, as well as an early modern earldom and dukedom, the Dukedom of Argyll.

The southern part of the loch is wider, and its branch which lies to the south-east of the island of Lismore is known as the Lynn of Lorne.

For boats the river is only navigable for a short way up its length, possibly as far as Casino, but a major tributary of the Richmond River is the Wilsons River, which flows through the city of Lismore and is navigable at least as far as Boatharbour approximately 12 km upstream from Lismore.

Pladda shares its name with Pladda Island, a tiny islet situated in the Lynn of Lorn between Lismore and Ardmucknish Bay.