Monaghan County Museum

This award-winning museum, located in a grey stone building on a hillside, has two floors devoted to the museum exhibits and a purpose built art gallery. The museum highlights the development of the area from the time of the first settlers, between 5500 BC and 2500 BC, right up to the present day.

Sections cover the movement towards independence earlier this century. The highlight of the museum is undoubtedly the 15th-century Cross of Clogher, an oak cross covered with bronze and semi-precious metals, depicting figures of the saints. The old Great Northern Railway, once a vital communications' link, is featured in one section, complete with old station master's cap, a carriage door key and a chain and whistle, besides many old railway posters. Other sections include linen-making in the town, a craft that had virtually expired here by 1850, and lace-making, particularly at Carrickmacross and Clones. Also in Monaghan is an exhibition centre in the St Louis convent, the mother house of the order in Ireland. The centre tells the story of the order from the time it arrived in Ireland in 1895.

120 km (75 miles) NW of Dublin.

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