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CHURCHES
Church registers (see link on left side of page)- gives name of church (Church of Ireland, R.C., Presbyterian), date of earliest records and location of records: http://ahd.exis.net/monaghan/
Roman Catholic:
St Macartan's Cathedral constructed between 1861 and 1891
Magheross Church
St Joseph's, Carrickmacross
Church of the Blessed Virgin & All Saints (known as "All Saints") at Doohamlet was built during the years 1857 to 1861. All Saints' Cemetery was opened in 1921. Before that the dead were buried at Annyalla or in the graveyard at Clontibret old parish church (at Gallagh). Some of them have burial space in Castleblayney or at Ballintra in Tullycorbet Parish.
Chapel built in Annyalla between the years 1796 and 1799 but the present Church of St. Michael the Archangel wasn't built until the 1920s. The Church was dedicated in 1927. There are two cemeteries around the St. Michael’s. The old cemetery dates from around 1800. There are graves for people from both the Doohamlet area and some from the St Mary's area in this cemetery. The new Cemetery to the south east of the new church was opened in 1963.
Church of the Immaculate Conception (St Mary's) at Clontibret was built between the years 1846 and 1865. The Cemetery at St Mary’s dates from 1859. Prior to the dedication of St Mary's burials took place in the cemetery at the old parish church at Gallagh and at Annyalla.
Catholic Parish of Inishkeen- map: www.thecore.com/~efinn/gene/inishkeen.html
Presbyterian:
Presbyterian Church Records NEW
The records for the Ballybay Presbyterians date from 1752 but most of the others date from 1799. Presbyterians settled in the Ballybay area of Co. Monaghan in sizeable numbers in the 1690s and early 1700s They began to worship together at Derryvalley, near Ballybay. The first congregation was known by the parish name of Tullycorbet. Click to read more on the Cahans Project website.
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1830-1850 Emigration from Monaghan to Prince Edward Island, Canada:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~emyvale/page4.html
Book: Exiles and Islanders, The Irish Settlers of Prince Edward Island by Professor Brendan O'Grady, of Charlottetown University, published 2004.
Monaghan Landowners (1870):
http://boards.ancestry.com.au/localities.britisles.ireland.mog.general/10.25/mb.ashx
Workhouses-
Carrickmacross, Castleblayney, Clones, Monaghan
(left side of Page - Workhouse Locations, Irish Poor Law Unions, Monaghan)
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/
Co. Monaghan Estate records
The Bath and Brownlow Estates were located in the Barony of Farney.
www.proni.gov.uk/introduction__bath_and_brownlow_estate.pdf
Papers, which date from the 17th to the 20th century, relating to the Dawson family who had estates in Counties Armagh, Louth, Monaghan and Waterford are held by PRONI. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=F9433
Rent Rolls for the Glasslough and Emy Estates are held by the NLI in Dublin.
The Irish Ancestors site contains a list of several Estates in Co. Monaghan.
www.ireland.com/ancestor/browse/counties/ulster/monaghan6.htm
Other Estates in the county were those of the Kane family at Drumreaske, the Leslie family at Ballybay, the Lloyd family at Ballyleck and the Plunkett family at Rockcorry. Information about these Estates are included in the papers of Monaghan solicitors ... Martin & Brett ... which are held by the Public Record Office in Belfast. http://tinyurl.com/45q629
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Early Life in Monaghan by Charles Gavan Duffy- includes details of schooling, social life, etc.:
www.from-ireland.net/history/cgdlifemonaghan.htm
Records of Monaghan Militia 1793-1870 (published 1871):
www.rootschat.com/links/06bj
Lt Benjamin Watson (son of the Reverend Thomas S. and Anna C. Watson of The Rectory, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan), of the 7th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, aged 20, died of wounds on 17th June 1916. Click here to read the letter his company commander, Major A. D. Reid, wrote to Benjamin's parents.
A McConnon family lived in the townland of Togan, in the Threemilehouse area of the county in the 1700s.
A couple of famous sons of Inniskeen were the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, 1904-1967 and politician Bernard O'Rourke.
Pritchard family website:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pritchards/ancestry.htm
Rockcorry was built as a linen town by the Corr family. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockcorry
Dartry, or Dawson Grove, was built in 1846
http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/monaghan/rockcorry/dartry_lge.html
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Census Records
1901 census coming soon
1911 census NOW ONLINE
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Various Co. Monaghan Links including-
Surname Index 1796 Flax Seed Premium Entitlement Lists
Principal Surnames of County Monaghan
Catholic Qualification Rolls Index: County Monaghanc 1778
General Valuations of Rateable Property in Co. Monaghan, Union of Carrickmacross
Monaghan Names In Verse- printed in Toronto newspaper 1879, refers to Monaghan as it was fifty years earlier [1849]. Over one hundred names.
County Monaghan International Genealogical Index (IGI) Batch Numbers.
IRL-MONAGHAN Mailing List at RootsWeb.
Church of Ireland Marriage Licence Bonds Diocese of Clogher (includes Monaghan, Fermanagh, parts of Cavan, Meath, Louth.)
Monaghan Births in Pettigo, County Donegal
And lots more
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