I found several different ways to do this and thought that I posted them for posterity:
Option 1
From the comment: How to make two small changes to the contour structure created in the grid , thanks to @rcs.
contourplot(volcano, region=T, main='title', subtitle='sub', legend=list(top=list(fun=grid::textGrob("Volcanoes", y=0, x=1.09))))
Option 2
Source: How to add a title to the legend scale using levelplot in R? thanks @ user20650.
contourplot(volcano, region=T,main='title') trellis.focus("legend", side="right", clipp.off=TRUE, highlight=FALSE) grid.text('Volcanoes', 0.5, 1.07, hjust=0.5, vjust=1) trellis.unfocus()

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