placenamesScotstown
Baile an Scotaigh
School building campaigns, a public pump and a parliamentary answer add to the history of the Scotstown district.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Scotaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Scotstown · English · main form
Place & story
A school that changed its site
Urbleshanny National School moved to its present Carrowhatta site in 1932, having previously occupied the site of Saint Mary’s Hall near the church. The school records subsequent building campaigns in 1966, 1997 and 2013. In 2020 its former physical-education hall was converted into three classrooms, with a new hall provided on the premises. Its own history gives conflicting eighteenth-century foundation dates, so those dates should be distinguished from the securely stated twentieth-century move. [2]
Water on the Fair Green
A cast-iron pump on Scotstown’s Fair Green dates from about 1870. Its practical fittings include a bucket grip formed as a ram’s head and a curved handle ending in a ball. Fluting and a pointed finial gave an ornamental finish to an everyday public water supply. [3]
A barracks in a parliamentary answer
On 11 May 1920, a question in the House of Commons asked whether the police barracks at Scotstown, Smithborough and Clontibret had recently been destroyed. The government’s answer confirmed that they had. It also stated that no troops were in the immediate locality, though troops could be called from elsewhere. The exchange documents the destruction without supplying an exact date or a detailed account of the Scotstown incident. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Scotstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- About Us: Urbleshanny National School · Urbleshanny National School
- Scotstown Fair Green water pump, NIAH 41400907 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Police Barracks, County Monaghan, Ireland, 11 May 1920 · UK Parliament, House of Commons Hansard
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.