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Monaghan (/ ˈ m ɒ n ə h ən / 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] The town is on the N2 road from Dublin to Derry and Letterkenny. [4 ...
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.
Ballybay. / 54.129341°N 6.902922°W / 54.129341; -6.902922. Ballybay ( Irish: Béal Átha Beithe, meaning 'mouth of the ford of the birch ') [ 2] is a town and civil parish in County Monaghan, Ireland. The town is centred on the crossroads of the R183 and R162 regional roads .
Glaslough (/ ɡ l æ s ˈ l ɒ x / glas-LOKH; Irish: Glasloch, meaning 'green lake') is a village and townland in the north of County Monaghan, Ireland, on the R185 regional road 3 km (2 mi) south of the border with Northern Ireland and 10 km (6 mi) northeast of Monaghan town. Glaslough won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1978 and again in ...
Castleblayney ( / ˌkæsəlˈbleɪni /; Irish: Baile na Lorgan) [7] is a town in County Monaghan, Ireland. The town had a population of 3,607 as of the 2016 census. [1] Castleblayney is near the border with County Armagh in Northern Ireland, and lies on the N2 road from Dublin to Derry and Letterkenny .
Drum has a Church of Ireland church, one of the oldest Presbyterian congregations on the island of Ireland (although the current Presbyterian church was only built in the c. 1820s [4] [5]), a Free Presbyterian church and a Gospel Hall. Unusually for Ireland, especially for the Republic of Ireland, Drum has no Catholic church in the actual ...
Emyvale, known before the Plantation of Ulster as Scarnageeragh ( Irish: Scairbh na gCaorach, meaning 'shallow ford of the sheep'), [ 2] is a village and townland in the north of County Monaghan, Ireland. It is on the main Dublin to Derry and Letterkenny road, the N2, about 10 kilometres (6 mi) north of Monaghan and 8 km (5 mi) south of Aughnacloy.
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.