Monaghan, in the province of Ulster, Ireland 作者：  来源：  发布时间：2021-04-13

I.Population and Area

Population in 2016:56,000

Population in 2020:61,273

Population Density: 48 people per square km

Total Area: 500 square miles

II.Natural Geography (Environment, resource and transportation)  

Most of the county’s northern boundary winds through cultivated lowlands except on Slieve Beagh, a desolate upland rising to 1,221 feet (372 metres). For many miles the boundary with Northern Ireland runs along the River Blackwater. Monaghan, in the north-central part of the county, is the county town (seat). Carrickmacross, Castleblayney, Clones, and Monaghan are urban districts.

Three main regions may be distinguished: the Slieve Beagh plateau in the north; the lowland Monaghan corridor from the valley of the River Erne to the Lough (Lake) Neagh basin, an important route; and, to the south, the Silurian hill country rising to more than 1,000 feet (300 metres). The landscape of the northern plateau and lowland corridor is dominated by drumlins, long oval mounds that give the lowland corridor a highly complicated drainage pattern. There are numerous small lakes and peat flats, the relics of former lakes and ponds. Similar drumlins and waters are found in the Silurian hill country.

Farms in Monaghan are generally small and cultivation is intensive. By tradition it is a flax-growing county, though little has been grown since World War II. Important agricultural products include hay, oats, and potatoes, and cattle raising and dairying are still important sources of income. Carrickmacross lace production is world-famous. Toward the end of the 20th century the county’s industrial base grew, and manufactures include computer software, furniture, and plastics. The main economic strength of the county’s small towns and villages is retail trade and monthly fairs. The noted Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh was a native of the town of Inniskeen.

The county town is Monaghan.The s and e are hilly, but the rest of the county is a fertile plain. The Blackwater and the Finn are the chief rivers. It is primarily an agricultural county.

Reference website: https://www.britannica.com/place/Monaghan

Transportation:

Closest airport to Monaghan is Belfast International Airport (BFS). Distance from Belfast International Airport to Monaghan is 41.3 miles / 66.5 kilometers.

III. ECONOMY 

IV.Industrial Characteristics:

1)Colt Design in Castleblayney

Establishment, home goods store, lodging and furniture store at Industrial Estate, Monaghan Road, Castleblayney, County Monaghan, Ireland. Here you will find detailed information about Colt Design: address, phone, fax, opening hours, customer reviews, photos, directions and more.

2)Velstone

Laboratory Surfaces, Prison Furniture, Vanity tops for Hotels & Student Accommodation, HTM 63 & Dental worktops are some of the areas in which Velstone surfaces continue to excel.

Customers – primarily Designers and Furniture manufacturers – know instinctively what type of surface they desire, and have come to rely on Velstone’s expertise to source and deliver the right product. From bespoke thicknesses to innovative colour schemes, Velstone can form an ideal solution to even the most sophisticated design.

V.Attractions

The center opened in September 2006 and is Managed by Coral Leisure. Our center includes a large fully equipped gymnasium with two fitness studios. We also have a 6 lane Olympic sized swimming pool with a leisure suite including a sauna, spa pool.

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VI.History

here was a meeting scheduled in 1585 where the English lord Sir John Perrot, frequented the area of Ulster with Irish chieftains to request that the county is divided into three separate counties due to the large size. The request also included having the rulers of Airgíalla all be appointed to be chefs in the area. Thus, the following was a commission which created County Monaghan. After the creation, five baronies were created within the county – Cremorne, Dartrey, Farney, Monaghan, and Truagh – which were remained under the chiefs of McKenna’s control.

However, the county did differently from the other two after defeating the Hugh O’Neill rebellion in 1603. Afterward, the count was left in the control of the native chiefs instead of being appointed a new chief. This did not last for long as a hybrid of Scottish and English colonization soon began in County after the 1621 Irish Rebellion – who was accompanied by the Irish Catholics.

Reference website: https://anirishwelcome.com/county-monaghan/

VII.Other information:

It is the birthplace of the writer and poet Patrick Kavanagh, who based most of his work on County Monaghan. Kavanagh is known for poems such as Shancoduff and Stoney Grey Soil and seen as one of the most important writers in Irish poetry in the 20th-century. But then it is no secret that many successful artists came from Monaghan with one of the main ones being George Collie (1904–75 born in Carrickmacross who studied at Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. Collie was an inexhaustible exhibitor throughout his whole life of the Royal Hibernian Academy his works is now part of major collections at the Ulster Museum and National Gallery of Ireland. It was also home to Sir Shane Leslie and Irish writer who resided at Castle Leslie.

An Irish nationalist, a Catholic convert, and the cousin of the Prime Minister of the UK Winston Churchill, by the 1900s Leslie became an imperative literary figure. Leslie was also a close friend of writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald the American novelist as well as several politicians. Fitzgerald actually dedicated his novel titles The Beautiful and Damned, to Leslie. Recognised as a leading provincial museum in Ireland, the Monaghan County Museum proudly have a Council of Europe Award since 1980, to its name. The best architecture of the county was developed during the Victorian and Georgian periods which ranges from the country houses of Carrickmacross; Lough Fea, Hilton Park, Castle Leslie, Clones and Glaslough.

Reference website: https://anirishwelcome.com/county-monaghan/

VIII.Contact information

-Mayor

Colm Carthy

22 Inver Park, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan

Phone:  (087) 6837180

Email: cathaoirleach@monaghancoco.ie

Reference website: https://monaghan.ie/cathaoirleach-2020-21-of-co-monaghan/