Monaghan

Monaghan (pronounced /ˈmʌnəhən/ MUN-ə-hən; Irish: Muineachán) is the county town of County Monaghan, Ireland. It is also provides the name of its civil parish and barony.

The population of the Town at the 2011 census was 8,012 including suburbs and environs. The town is on the N2 road from Dublin to Derry and Letterkenny.

Etymology

The Irish name Muineachán derives from a diminutive plural form of the Irish word muine meaning "brake" (a thickly overgrown area) or sometimes "hillock". Patrick Weston Joyce interpreted this as "a place full of little hills or brakes". Monaghan County Council's preferred interpretation is "land of the little hills", a reference to the numerous drumlins in the area.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Monaghan town features a red hand (of Ulster) on a shield on a tower. It has been speculated that the red hand here is the hand of the O'Neill family since the Battle of Clontibret.

History

Early History

The Battle of Clontibret between the forces of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, The O'Neill, and the English Crown was fought in northern Monaghan in May 1595. The territory of Monaghan had earlier been wrested from the control of the MacMahon sept in 1591, when the leader of the MacMahons was hanged by authority of the Dublin government; this was one of the events that led to the Nine Years War and the Tudor conquest of Ireland.

Monaghan (Dáil Éireann constituency)

Monaghan was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1921 to 1977. The constituency elected 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, using the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

History

The constituency was created in 1921 as a 3 seater, under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, for the 1921 election to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, whose members formed the 2nd Dáil.

It succeeded the constituencies of Monaghan North and Monaghan South which were used to elect the Members of the 1st Dáil and earlier British House of Commons members.

It was abolished under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974, when it was replaced by the new constituency of Cavan–Monaghan which was first used at the 1977 general election.

Boundaries

The constituency spanned the entire area of the County Monaghan.

TDs

Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.

Monaghan (disambiguation)

Monaghan is a variant of the Gaelic manacháin, meaning "little monk", and may refer to the following:

Places

Constituencies