Monaghan

[mon-uh-guhn, -han]

noun

1. a county in the NE Republic of Ireland. 498 sq. mi. (1,290 sq. km). Monaghan.

Monaghan

/ ˈmɒnəhən /

noun

1. a county of NE Republic of Ireland, in Ulster province: many small lakes. County town: Monaghan. Pop: 52 593 (2002). Area: 1292 sq km (499 sq miles)

2. a town in NE Republic of Ireland, county town of Co Monaghan. Pop: 5717 (2002)

Example Sentences

The vigils are taking place at three gaelic football grounds in Louth, Meath and Monaghan on Tuesday evening, with people gathering for prayers and remembrance.

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Magheracloone Mitchells GFC in County Monaghan, where Shay Duffy was a former player, said the "club and community mourns the heart-breaking loss of five lives".

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Professor Monaghan added: "Among the future steps are to explore more advanced regimes of electrical stimulation to generate more precise and prolonged effects on inflammatory cells and to explore new materials and modalities of delivering electric fields. This concept has yielded compelling effects in vitro and has huge potential in a wide range of inflammatory diseases."

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She comes from a Protestant background and is from Monaghan.

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The coalition government party, Fine Gael, is represented by a former government minister, Heather Humphreys, who comes from a Protestant community in the border county of Monaghan.

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