placenamesLough Morne
Loch Morn
Lough Morne's modern school brought several rural schools together, while Temple Moyle by neighbouring Lough Egish preserves a much older religious landscape.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Loch Morn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Lough Morne · English · main form
Place & story
A school serving several communities
St Oliver Plunkett's National School at Tossey, Loughmourne, was built in 1977 to replace schools at Carrickatee, Aghmakerr, Kilkitt, Laggan and Laragh. Its own history records a further development in 2007, when the Department of Education and Science invited it to establish an autism class within the mainstream school. Bishop Liam S. McDaid formally launched the class in June 2012, marking another stage in the school's service to the surrounding rural communities. [2]
Temple Moyle by Lough Egish
At Lattonfasky on the north-eastern shore of Lough Egish, roughly four kilometres south-east of Lough Morne, Temple Moyle survives as a ruined rectangular chapel within a graveyard. Archer Heritage's 2022 conservation plan identifies late-medieval Gothic features, including window openings, a recessed cupboard in the eastern wall and beam-holes associated with a screen and western gallery. The report proposes a fifteenth-century date through architectural comparison with other Irish churches. [3]
Recording and conserving the ruins
Lough Egish Community Development commissioned the conservation plan following surveys in 2021. Archaeologists supervised clearance around the chapel in September, making obscured walls and fallen stone more visible. Architectural recording, drone photography and three-dimensional modelling documented the structure before proposed repairs. The resulting plan identified weakened gable walls and erosion of mortar as problems requiring specialist conservation, establishing a programme for care rather than claiming that restoration had already been completed. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Monaghan
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Civil parish
- Aghnamullen
- Coordinates
- 54.07860, -6.85399 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 133540 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lough Morne. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- About Our School · St Oliver Plunkett’s National School, Tossey, Loughmourne
- Temple Moyle, Lattonfasky: Conservation Plan, 31 January 2022 · Maeve McCormick and Bart Korfanty, Archer Heritage Planning, for Lough Egish Community Development CLG
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.