placenamesLattin
Laitean
The parish’s nineteenth-century records connect grazing land and a local fair with church unions and the substantial estate of Arthur John Moore.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Laitean · Irish · main form · validated name
- Lattin · English · main form
Place & story
Grazing land and a November fair
Lattin lay in Clanwilliam, southwest of Tipperary town. Lewis’s 1837 account described its land as mainly pasture of high quality and recorded a fair at Knockordan on 7 November. Mooresfort stood in a planted demesne within this farming landscape. His population of 1,423 belongs to the whole parish, a larger community than the village alone, and his account places the fair outside the village centre. [2]
Different church connections
Lattin’s Church of Ireland rectory formed a union with Bruis, Corroge, Clonpet and Cordangan, supplying the prebend of Lattin in Emly Cathedral. The Archbishop of Cashel controlled its presentation. Catholic organisation followed another pattern: Lewis placed Lattin at the head of a district including Cullen, Shronell, Bruis and Clonpet, with chapels at Lattin and Cullen. These overlapping connections explain why records associated with Lattin can concern neighbouring parishes as well. [2]
Arthur John Moore’s wider patronage
Arthur John Moore of Mooresfort also had a seat at Aherlow Castle. The University of Galway’s estate research records his creation as a Papal Count in 1879 and his foundation of Mount St Joseph Cistercian Abbey at Mount Heaton in County Offaly. It places his Tipperary estate at 10,199 acres in the 1870s. The family connection therefore reaches beyond Lattin: neither Aherlow Castle nor the abbey should be mistaken for a building within this civil parish. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Coordinates
- 52.45667, -8.27908
- Mapped area
- 9.23 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2304 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lattin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lattin: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- Moore of Mooresfort: Landed Estates estate 3236 · University of Galway, Landed Estates Database
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.