placenamesLarne
Latharna
Lewis’s parish description records working limestone and an intermittently used building-stone quarry.
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
- Latharna · Irish · main form
- Larne · English · main form
Place & story
Stone and an unworked coal seam
Larne’s surrounding parish supplied stone for both buildings and farming in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description. Limestone was plentiful and quarried for these purposes. At Ballycraigey, about a mile north of the town, he identified a felspar quarry worked only occasionally for building stone. At Bankhead he reported a coal seam that had been discovered but was not being worked. His account distinguishes active extraction, intermittent quarrying and an unexploited deposit; it does not establish whether any of these sites operated later. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Glenarm Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.88327, -5.88840 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 9.7 km²
- Logainm ID
- 61318 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Larne. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Larne, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.