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Listooder is a hamlet and townland situated outside Crossgar towards Saintfield and Ballynahinch in County Down, Northern Ireland. Listooder derives its name from the Irish word 'Lios an tSúdaire' meaning "ring-fort".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Placenames Database of Ireland )〕 It holds some new houses with a small working farm, missionary hall, Orange Lodge and non-subscribing Presbyterian church. There used to be a post office, pub and a shop here but closed several decades. 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 (hence lios) 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 grave stone with a cross engraved on it surrounded by a stone wall with a sycamore and beech tree. This is the grave of a Roman Catholic priest who was rolled down a nearby hill in a barrel of nails during the pagan times and was buried where the barrel stopped. *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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Listooder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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