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The Market House, in Monaghan, Ireland, was designed by Colonel William Hayes of Avondale, Rathdrum, County Wicklow, and stands in the middle of Market Square. Completed in 1792, the building is of five bays in length with the centre three arches projected with a secondary pediment. The outer bays contain blank windows.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cavan Monaghan had a population of 10,016 living in 3,553 of its 3,704 total private dwellings, a change of 13.4% from its 2016 population of 8,829. With a land area of 306.39 km 2 (118.30 sq mi), it had a population density of 32.7/km 2 (84.7/sq mi) in 2021. [6]
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 ...
Carrickmacross (Irish: Carraig Mhachaire Rois, meaning 'rock of the wooded plain') [4] is a town in County Monaghan, Ireland. The population was 5,745 at the 2022 census, [1] making it the second-largest town in the county. Carrickmacross is a market town which developed around a castle built by the Earl of Essex in 1630.
The first Harvest Time Blues festival took place in 1990, to "promote and enrich the cultural life of Monaghan, the North-East and Ireland". [weasel words] [citation needed] The festival was an initiative between Somhairle MacConghail, the Arts Officer for County Monaghan, and local publican and blues enthusiast Seamus McKenna.
[9] [10] Monaghan County Council then condemned the building as unsafe and local hearings of the district court and of the circuit court were relocated to Hope Castle in 1997. [11] [12] A statue of the country singer, Tom McBride, was unveiled at the back of the building by President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, in September 2018. [13] [14] [15]
A magnitude 4 earthquake rattled Southern California before dawn Sunday morning — the strongest in a series of modest earthquakes to strike near the Ontario International Airport in the last month.
In 2000 the pub gained widespread attention when it featured in and appeared on the front cover of Pete McCarthy's best-selling book McCarthy's Bar. It was initially a grocery business which expanded to trade with the nearby Royal Navy base at the harbour, and then became McCarthy's Bar, selling beer, wine and spirits, one of the first licensed ...