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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 ...
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.
The hotel was restored in 2011 by Michael Treanor, into 16 hotel rooms and an Irish Pub called Monaghan's Irish Pub. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [ 1 ]
County Monaghan is the birthplace of the poet and writer Patrick Kavanagh, who based much of his work in the county. Kavanagh is one of the most significant figures in 20th-century Irish poetry. The poems "Stony Grey Soil" and "Shancoduff" refer to the county. Castle Leslie. County Monaghan has produced several successful artists.
Clones Market House (Irish: Teach an Mhargaidh Cluain Eois), also known as Clones Town Hall (Irish: Halla an Bhaile Cluain Eois) [1] is a municipal building at The Diamond in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland. It is currently used by Monaghan County Council as a venue for the delivery of local services.
Glaslough (/ ɡ l æ s ˈ l ɒ x / glas-LOKH; Irish: Glasloch, meaning 'green lake') [2] 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 ...
Clones (/ ˈ k l oʊ n ɪ s / KLOH-nis; from Irish Cluain Eois, [8] 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.
Atlantic Bronze Age gold discs discovered at Tydavnet, County Monaghan [1] [2]. Tydavnet, officially Tedavnet (Irish: Tigh Damhnata, meaning 'house of Damhnait'), [3] is a village in northern County Monaghan, Ireland, and also the name of the townland and civil parish in which the village sits.