Lios Uí Bhigín

Lissyviggeen's name derives from Lios Ui Bhigin, a ringfort belonging to the O'Miggeen family, evidencing settlement patterns common across medieval Munster where fortified homesteads bore the names of their Gaelic proprietors. The townland lies in the Barony of Magunihy in eastern County Kerry, near Glenflesk, an area that witnessed successive waves of Irish habitation from the Bronze Age onwa...