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Tirnaneill. / 54.2867°N 6.9664°W / 54.2867; -6.9664. Tirnaneill ( Irish: Tír Ní Néill, meaning "O'Neill's land") is a townland situated in north County Monaghan in Ireland, about halfway between Emyvale and Monaghan Town at a crossroads on the N2 road known as Tirnaneill Cross.
2 Gardaí injured and hospitalised. The Clontibret invasion was an incursion by Ulster loyalists into the small Monaghan village of Clontibret, in the Republic of Ireland, on 7 August 1986. After crossing the border the loyalists proceeded to vandalise many buildings in the village and attacked two police officers before being dispersed by the ...
Cavan–Monaghan is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects five deputies ( Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Carrickmacross ( Irish: Carraig Mhachaire Rois, meaning 'rock of the wooded plain') [4] is a town in County Monaghan, Ireland. The town and environs had a population of 5,032 according to the 2016 census, [1] making it the second-largest town in the county. Carrickmacross is a market town which developed around a castle built by the Earl of ...
Hugh McElvaney is an Irish businessman and former politician. He was a member of Monaghan County Council, elected originally for Fine Gael but then rn as an independent, representing the Ballybay-Clones Electoral Area since its establishment from the 2014 election onwards, however McElvaney did not run for re-election in the 2024 Monaghan County Council election He is involved with waste ...
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, KCMG, PC (12 April 1816 – 9 February 1903), was an Irish poet and journalist (editor of The Nation ), Young Irelander and tenant-rights activist. After emigrating to Australia in 1856 he entered the politics of Victoria on a platform of land reform, and in 1871–1872 served as the colony's 8th Premier.
Tullycorbet. Tullycorbet is a civil parish in the centre of County Monaghan, Ireland north of the town of Ballybay, [1] in the north of the Ballybay-Clones Municipal District and immediately south of the boundary to the Monaghan Municipal District. At the 2005 census, it had 727 Catholic households with a Catholic population of 2,153.
Battle of Ridgeway. American Civil War. Utah War. Spouse (s) Mary Crow. John Charles O'Neill (9 March 1834 – 8 January 1878) was an Irish -born officer in the American Civil War and member of the Fenian Brotherhood. O'Neill is best known for his activities leading the Fenian raids on Canada in 1866 and 1871. [1]