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MONAGHAN

Volume 7 · 125 words · 1778 Edition

a county of Ireland, in the province of Ulster, 32 miles long and 22 broad. It is bounded on the north by Tyrone, on the east by Armagh; on the south by Cavan and Louth; and on Monaghan the west by Fermanagh. It is full of woods and bogs, and a third part of it is taken up by Lough Erne. Monasteries. It contains 24 parishes, five baronies, one borough, near 10,000 houses, and feeds four members to parliament. Some time ago there were discovered on the borders of this county, four teeth of a prodigious magnitude, which the royal society, upon comparing with some teeth which had been found in England, were clearly of opinion could be no other than those of the elephant.