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Monaghan. / 54.24778°N 6.97083°W / 54.24778; -6.97083. Monaghan ( / ˈmɒnəhən / MON-ə-hən; [ 2] Irish: Muineachán[ 3] [ˈmˠɪnʲəxaːnˠ]) is the county town of County Monaghan, Ireland. It also provides the name of its civil parish and Monaghan barony . The population of the town as of the 2022 census was 7,894. [ 1]
Website. Official website. County Monaghan ( / ˈmɒnəhən / MON-ə-hən; [ 3] Irish: Contae Mhuineacháin) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Ulster and is part of Border strategic planning area of the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town of Monaghan. Monaghan County Council is the local authority for the county.
Clones (/ ˈ k l oʊ n ɪ s / KLOH-nis; from Irish Cluain Eois, [7] meaning 'meadow of Eois') is a small town in the west of County Monaghan in Ireland. The area is part of the Border Region in the Republic of Ireland, earmarked for economic development by the Irish Government due to its currently below-average economic situation.
History. The hospital, which was designed by John McCurdy, was opened as the Cavan and Monaghan District Lunatic Asylum in 1869. [1] [2] Two chapels were built, one for Catholic patients and the other for Protestant patients, and these were renovated by William Alphonsus Scott in 1910. [3]
The surname Monaghan is an anglicization of the Irish surname O'Manacháin / oʊˈmɒnəhæn /. The Irish translation for this name is descendant of Manacháin, which ultimately translates to "Monk". Other variations include Monahan and Monachan. Essentially, sometime before the 16th century, the Connacht family derived the name Monahan from ...
First opened in 1974, it was the first full-time, professionally staffed, and local authority funded Irish local museum. [1] The museum was housed in Monaghan Courthouse in the centre of Monaghan town until a fire in 1981, which gutted the building. After rescuing the collections, the museum was moved for a period to St Macartan's College.
Paudge Connolly. Patrick Connolly (born 23 September 1953) is a former independent politician from County Monaghan in Ireland. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cavan–Monaghan constituency from 2002 to 2007. [1]
UTC-1 ( IST ( WEST )) Drum ( Irish: An Droim, meaning 'the ridge') [ 1] is a village and townland in the west of County Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland. It is notable for being one of the only Protestant-majority settlements in the Republic of Ireland. [citation needed]