County Monaghan, highlighted.
Choose from topics below for stories of people, families, events and places connected to County Monaghan’s past.
Family Histories
- Cole of Brandrum (see under Finlay of Corkagh)
- Kane / O’Cahan of Monaghan
- Kinnear of Ballybay
- Lennard of Clones
- Leslie of Castle Leslie
- Leslie-Ellis of County Monaghan
- Madden of Hilton Park
- Mealiff of Bishopscourt
- Owen of Brandrum (see under Finlay of Corkagh)
- Pringle of Clones and Ballinahone
- Roper of Bishopscourt
- Ronaghan of Monaghan
- Ward of Donaghmoyne & Farney
Monaghan Places
- Bishopscourt (Altartate Glebe), Clones
- Clones
- Errigal Truagh near Augnacloy
- Mullan
- The Rathdonnell Estate in Ulster
- The River Blackwater
- The Clones Motte and Bailey
- The Black Pig’s Dyke
Vanishing Ireland (Monaghan)
- Eileen Hall (1924-2021) – Keeper of the Sweet Shop
- The McGarvey Brothers of Clones
- Annie McGinn, publican, Newbliss
- J & W Wright’s Pub, Glaslough
- Miriam Moore, Clones – podcast.
- George Knight, Clones – podcast.
Monaghan People
- Viscount Falkland & the Falkland Islands
- Juan McKenna, Patriot of Chile
- James Graham – The Bravest Man at Waterloo
- Thomas Leslie and the Charge of the Light Brigade
- William Francis de Vismes Kane (1840–1918) – A Gentleman Naturalist At Large
- Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 1st Bart (1762-1857), referenced here.
- Cecil Parke (1881-1946) – The Original Clones Cyclone
- Reggie Dunne (1889-1922) – Sir Henry Wilson’s Assassin and his Greenans Cross link.
- Sir Jack Leslie – between October 2003 and January 2004, Turtle conducted a series of interviews at Castle Leslie with the late Sir Jack, who became famous as a disco-dancing octogenarian. Born in New York in 1916, his life encompassed forty years in Rome and five years in a German POW camp. This story will be published in due course.
- Desmond Leslie (1921-2001) – Space Odyssey
- Barry McGuigan, The Clones Cyclone
Monaghan Articles