Monaghan takes its name from Muineachán, ‘land of the little hills’, and its rolling drumlin country of small farms and hidden lakes remains among the most distinctive landscapes in Ireland.
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Monaghan takes its name from Muineachán, ‘land of the little hills’, and its rolling drumlin country of small farms and hidden lakes remains among the most distinctive landscapes in Ireland.
This is Patrick Kavanagh’s country, whose poems from Inniskeen turned the stony grey soil of Monaghan into some of the finest verse in the Irish language — a county that has always made great things from small ground.
