Listooder


Listooder is a hamlet and townland situated outside Crossgar towards both Ballynahinch and Saintfield in County Down, Northern Ireland. Listooder derives its name from the Irish word Lios an tSúdaire meaning "ring-fort".
It holds some new houses with a small working farm, missionary hall, Orange Lodge and non-subscribing Presbyterian church.
There are nine houses in Listooder and 31 people living here according to the 2011 census with many more in the surrounding area.

Features

A small river runs through Listooder which is a tributary of the Ballynahinch River, which leads into the Quoile River outside Downpatrick.
Upon Listooder lies an old fort which sits on one of County Downs' highest drumlin hills. It was used as a look-out because of its vast 360° view across the Down Drumlins as far as the Mourne Mountains and down onto Listooder Hamlet which would have only held a farm then.
Less than half a mile outside Listooder, on the border of the two townlands of Listooder and Clontaghnaglar, in a field along Abbeyview Road sits a gravestone with a cross engraved on it surrounded by a stone wall with a sycamore and beech tree.
On Abbeyview Road, there is also an old railway bridge that goes over the old Downpatrick-Belfast railway line that stopped functioning in 1959. During the world wars, children got off here and stayed at nearby houses for safety.

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