placenamesLatton
Leatón
An abandoned classroom building and its successor record a changing school network.
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
- Leatón · Irish · main form · validated name
- Latton · English · main form
Place & story
The 1941 school
During his 2016 visit, Enda O’Flaherty recorded the former Latton National School standing in pasture, with classroom furniture still inside. A limestone plaque on its front dated the building to 1941. His survey identified it as one of several successive schoolhouses in the village. [2]
Five schools come together
Scoil Mhuire’s own account dates the opening of its present building to 1977. It brought together pupils from Anney, Fermoyle, Derrygooney, Corrachara and Latton schools, replacing a network of smaller institutions across Aughnamullen West. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Monaghan
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Civil parish
- Aghnamullen
- Coordinates
- 54.07045, -6.94588 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414555 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Latton. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Latton National School, Latton townland, Co. Monaghan, 19 April 2016 · Enda O’Flaherty
- About Us · Scoil Mhuire, Latton
- A whitewashed barn at Latton, as photographed in 2012 illustration: based on a Barn Latton by Kenneth Allen. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2014-08-12. How this page was prepared.