Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Latton, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Latton
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.07437, -6.95570
- SMR number
- MO023-032----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a W-facing slope in an isolated place known locally as McGuinness’ Rocks. A small rectangular structure (dims c. 15m E-W; c. 10m N-S) with a return (dims c. 5m N-S; c. 5m E-W) at the W end of the N wall is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. There is a local tradition (IFS Schools Mss (939) 236) that it was a church and a school, for which see this web-page accessed on 29/05/2018: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes It is thought to have been in use until St Mary’s Roman Catholic church which is c. 700m to the ESE was built in 1823. The foundations (Wth 0.75m; H 0.1-1.2m) of a rectangular structure (int. dims 12m E-W; 6m N-S) with a return (int. dims 4.3m E-W; c. 3m N-S) at N survive in interrupted sections against a rock outcrop cliff at W.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 19 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.