Latton

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Latton, from 183 m² to 102,499 m² (10.25 ha, 25.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Latton in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 24 Jun 2026Conditional

  1) Permission for retention of an existing temporary mobile home, hardcore surfaced area, new entrance and connection to existing septic tank and percolation area. 2) Permission to construct a single storey extension onto the side and a two storey extension at the rear of existing derelict dwelling house, Elevational changes, upgrade existing septic tank to a new wastewater treatment system, alterations to entrance onto public road and all associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660259

• 23 Apr 2025Conditional

  Permission to 1 Demolish existing single storey extension to rear of existing two-storey dwelling house, 2. Construct a proposed two-storey extension to rear of existing dwelling house, 2. Demolish existing single storey porch to front of existing dwelling house and replace with a proposed single storey porch to link dwelling house to existing single storey out-building, 3. Conversion of existing single storey out-building to form part of dwelling house and 4. Closure of existing entrance to dwelling house and replacement with a new entrance from the public road to include the construction of entrance walls, piers and access driveway with together with all ancillary, Significant further information received relates to submitted Characterisation assessment report, Ecoflo document, proposed drawings

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560167

• 17 Sept 2020Conditional

  permission for development consisting of the construction of an overhead covered area from front door to the end of the footpath. The area covered is over head and at the front of the premises, to assist with covid-19 regulations for social distancing

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20379

• 11 Jan 2019Conditional

  permission to demolish existing derelict building and construct a one and a half storey dwelling, attached domestic garage & carport, new entrance with gates and piers together with new wastewater treatment system and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 195

• 5 Jul 2017Conditional

  Permission to reposition all weather playing field, boundaries and walking track to that previously granted (planning reference no 14/48), provide new running track, lighting to both running and walking track, reposition machinery store and car park and all associated works and exit on to public road by existing entrance

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17320

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Latton.

Recorded monuments

• MO023-032 Church
  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

• MO023-034 Crannog
  Description

  situated in a bay (dims c. 250m NE-SW; c. 100-c. 160m NW-SE) on the NW shore of Lough Avaghon, a subrectangular lake (dims c. 850m NW-SE; c. 650m NE-SW). It is depicted as a small island only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a small overgrown cairn (diam. c. 10m) incorporating some rock outcrop but no artificial features are recorded. 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 upload/revision: 19 June 2018

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey vernacular house, built c.1820, having three-bay first floor and four-bay ground floor, with gabled windbreak to front (east) elevation, and outbuildings to yard to side and rear. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks, timber bargeboards and exposed rafter ends. Pitched slate roof to porch, with carved timber bargeboards. Roughcast rendered walls, with painted quoins. Square-headed window openings, with replacement uPVC windows, and masonry sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement uPVC door. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north of yard to front of house, with five-bay single-storey outbuilding attached by single-bay flat-roofed annex to west end of north elevation of this, and detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-east corner of yard, all having pitched corrugated-iron roofs, whitewashed rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Rubble stone boundary wall to front, having recent metal gates and piers. Wrought-iron farm gate to south of detached outbuilding, with single round-plan whitewashed rubble stone pier.

• Farmyard complex, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, built c.1860, comprising detached three-bay two-storey house with flat-roofed porch to front (east) elevation. Pitched tiled roof, with rendered chimneystack, some cast-iron rainwater goods, and timber bargeboards. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC and some one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement uPVC door and sidelights. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding withe barrel-shaped corrugated-iron clad roof and rendered stone walls to south gable of house, and single-bay lean-to corrugated-iron roofed outbuilding to south of latter. Detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north of yard, with detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-west corner, detached two-bay two-storey outbuilding to west range of yard, all with pitched slate roofs having exposed rafter ends, whitewashed rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber battened doors and shutters. Set at roadside, with whitewashed rubble stone boundary walls to road boundary.

• Saint Mary's National School, school, 1940–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay single-storey national school, dated 1941, comprising six-bay double-height classroom block, with lower flat-roofed entrance block to front (north) elevation, with advanced two-bay cloakroom to either side of central entrance. Now disused and derelict. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls, having red brick walls to sill level. Inscribed limestone date and name plaque reading 'Scoil Mhuire Leacht Fhinn Scoil Náisiúnta 1941'. Square-headed window openings with tooled stone sills, having remains of pivoting windows at clerestory level of classroom block. Square-headed door openings, that to front elevation having timber panelled door and sculpted masonry surround, those to east and west elevations having timber battened doors. Rendered boundary walls and hedgerow to site boundary.

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, built c.1850, having two-bay side elevations, flat-roofed porch to front (south) elevation, and single-storey extension to rear. Hipped slate roof, with paired rendered chimneystacks with recent red brick to caps. Roughcast rendered walls, having render quoins, plinth course and eaves course, and with render cornice to porch. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, and painted sills. Porch has channelled pilasters to corners with roughcast render to frieze, and has plinths and shallow moulded capitals. Square-headed door opening to side of porch, with recent red-brick surround. Timber panelled door, cut limestone step. Set back from road in own grounds. Site entrance to south having cast-iron double-leaf vehicular gate, with square-plan cast-iron piers and matching sinusoidal-plan cast-iron railings.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Latton.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Latton with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Latton · Leatón

Area

1,359,917 m² (135.99 ha, 336.04 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnamullen, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Cormeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cormeen electoral division: 527 people in 174 households; 86% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derry, Drumcanon, Lisdrumcleve, Lisnagalliagh, Maghon, Moyle Beg

Placenames

Latton on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.