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Lyons in Ireland comes from Ó Laighin of east Galway and Ó Liatháin of Cork, two Gaelic families behind one of the most common names in the south of the country. This collection brings the Lyons family crest on the Irish National Tartan to a woven blanket, mug, coasters, garden flag and Christmas ornament, with a crest T-shirt and license plate for Lyons families proud of their Irish roots.
Lyons is one of the most common surnames in the south of Ireland, and it grew from two Gaelic families. Ó Laighin takes its name from laighean, the Irish word for a spear or lance, while Ó Liatháin comes from Liathán, a diminutive of liath, meaning gray. Lyons became the usual English form of both, and this range carries the Lyons spelling.
The Ó Laighin were an old east Galway family whose lands lay in the barony of Kilconnell, held into the seventeenth century; a Kerry branch of the same name became Lyne. The Ó Liatháin belonged to Cork, where the parish of Castlelyons, Caisleán Ó Liatháin, keeps their name in the barony of Barrymore. Notable Irish bearers include Robert Dyer Lyons, the Cork-born physician who went to the Crimea in 1855 as pathologist to the British army, and F. S. L. Lyons, the Derry-born historian of Ireland since the Famine who served as Provost of Trinity College Dublin.
This collection carries the Lyons family crest on the Irish National Tartan across a woven cotton blanket, an 11 oz accent mug, a cork coaster set, a garden flag and a ceramic Christmas ornament, joined by a Lyons crest T-shirt in Irish Green or Black and a license plate that sets the crest over the Irish flag.
Follow the Lyons name from Kilconnell to Castlelyons in our Lyons Irish surname history.
