MONAGHAN, the capital of the above county, is situated near its centre, a short distance north of the Blackwater, a place of considerable thoroughfare and business in the linen trade and the sale of agricultural produce. Its ancient name was Muinechan (The Town of Monks), given to it from the religious establishment formerly existing there. The principal buildings are a market-house, erected by Lord Rossmore in 1792, a court-house, and a parish church. In the immediate vicinity of the town is a Roman Catholic chapel, a Presbyterian meeting-house in the New Market, the county infirmary, the diocesan school-house, the barrack for cavalry at the northern entrance of the town, an extensive county prison, and the union workhouse. Its population in 1851 amounted to 3484. The other towns in the county whose population exceeds 2000 are as follows:—Carrickmacross, 2534; Clones, 2333; and Castleblayney, 2084. (H. 8—R.)