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Detail of the Australian Monument to The Great Irish Famine at Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney. Melbourne, Victoria. In 1998 a memorial in the form of a Famine Rock with plaque was erected on the foreshore of Hobsons Bay, Port Phillip at Williamstown. This was the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first boat load of Irish Famine orphan girls. [12]
County Monaghan (/ ˈ m ɒ n ə h ən / 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. The population of ...
Dartrey Heritage. Dartrey Forest (sometimes Dartrey Estate or Dawson Grove Estate) is a forest and estate near Rockcorry in north-west County Monaghan, Ireland.It was formerly part of the Barony of Dartrey and was the country estate of the Dawson family, who had the title Earl of Dartrey from 1866 to 1933.
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 museum also maintains a large collection of archival material, which include early estate records (rentals, maps and wages books) and local authority records. [2] There are a number of notable archaeological objects in the museum, an example being the Lisdrumturk Cauldron, which was discovered in a bog in the county.
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, [1] [2] was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole. [3]
In the event, Clones, County Monaghan, in the Republic, was chosen. Northern Ireland was the location of the next Ulster host: Newry, County Armagh in 2015. [18] In December 2016, Sinn Féin introduced a private member's bill seeking to have the commemoration held on the second Sunday of every May every year. [19]
Corblonog (Irish: Corr Bhlonaige, meaning 'round hill of the fat/lard') [1] is a very small townland in the north of County Monaghan in Ireland.It is 0.2 square kilometres (0.08 sq mi) in area, and lies the east of the townland of Sheskin in the civil parish of Tydavnet.