Lissadell (Irish: Lios an Daill Uí Dálaigh, meaning 'O'Daly's Court of the Blind') is the name of an area in north County Sligo on Magherow peninsula west of Benbulben.
Until the late 16th century Lissadell was part of the tuath of Cairbre Drom Cliabh under the Lords of Sligo, Ó Conchobhair Sligigh.
With the dissolution of the monasteries act coming into force in the west of Ireland after the Nine Years War the land was granted to Sir Paul Gore, a cavalry officer in the Elizabethan army.
He was ordered by Mountjoy to escort the last two Irish chieftains, Rory O'Donnell and Sir Donough O'Connor, to submit to Queen Elizabeth.
"[1] Lissadell was the location in the 13th century of the important Ollamh of Poetry to the King of Tir Conaill Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh who killed a tax collector for his insolence with an axe here in 1213.