MONAGHAN  , a

market town and the county town of county Monaghan, Ireland, on the Ulster Canal and the Belfast and Clones line of the Great Northern railway, by which it is 52 M . S.W. by W. of Dublin, Pop (1901), 2932 . There is a modern Roman Catholic cathedral (1862–1892)'for the diocese of Clogher, a convent of the Sisters of St Louis, and a Protestant church (1836), and the public and county buildings include court-house, gaol, workhouse, asylum, hospital and barracks . Educational establishments include a national model school and the college of St Macartan, preparatory for the Roman Catholic priesthood . The town takes its name (Muinechan, the town of monks) from an early monastery . It was incorporated by James I., but was little more than a hamlet until the close of the 18th century . Rossmore Park, the fine demesne of Lord Rossmore, is the most noteworthy of several neighbouring residences . The town is governed by an urban district council .