This is a small town in County Monaghan, Ireland. The town is a real hidden gem, as it has an ancient lineage which makes it worth a stop on any tours of Ireland. The remains of a 12th Century Augustinian Abbey, known as the “Wee Abbey” are...
Carrickmacross, a broad and pleasant market town on the extreme east of the region in County Monaghan, was famous for its lace during the mid-19th century and is still practiced by local nuns. A grant of land in the neighbourhood was made by Elizabeth I...
The county town has some remains of a 15th century friary near The Diamond. The nearby ornate Victorian drinking fountain is a memorial to a Baron Rossmore. A museum tracing the history of the St. Louis order and the county is housed in the St....
On the Western shores of Mucko Lake is the market town that takes its name from Sir Edward Blayney , who received a grant of land from James I in 1611 and started to build the town. Almost two centuries later , the 11th Lord...
Inniskeen (Inis Caoin, "pleasant river-meadow") , east of Carrickmacross , is the birthplace of Patrick Kavanagh the Irish poet. There's a small plaque bearing some of his verse in the village , and the house he lived in is well signposted - but you cannot go...
County Monaghan is an inland county, one of the three counties of the province of Ulster in the Republic of Ireland. Its name is derivedfrom the Irish Muineachan, "the place of the shrubs." The county is bordered on the east by Louth and Armagh, on...