Qualla: County Monaghan https://qualla.com/county-monaghan en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: County Monaghan https://qualla.com/county-monaghan County Monaghan: Introduction https://qualla.com/county-monaghan/ Drive through Monaghan and the land does not stop moving. Drumlins, low rounded hills of glacial till, pile across the county in a kind of slow geological surf, each one with a little lake at its foot or a half-circle of forest at its top. It is the smallest of Ulster's nine counties by population, around 65,000 people across a quietly farmed landscape, and it is the only one of the three Ulster counties left in the Republic at Partition that did not eventually fold its identity into something larger. Monaghan stayed Monaghan: an Ulster county on the southern side of the line, the home county of Patrick Kavanagh and Patrick McCabe and Barry McGuigan, with a literary, sporting, and ecclesiastical export record disproportionate to its size.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/u/county-monaghan-wp/gcdu-county-monaghan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full County Monaghan: Made by John Perrot https://qualla.com/county-monaghan/ Until the late sixteenth century, the area now called County Monaghan was simply part of the kingdom of Airgialla, controlled by the McMahon chieftains across most of the territory and by the McKennas in the northern barony of Truagh. In 1585 the English Lord Deputy of Ireland, S...

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