Location: Monaghan

11.00am
Meeting at Monaghan Museum, Hill Street.
Walking tour of Monaghan town with Grace Moloney, Clogher Historical Society, & Theresa Loftus, Monaghan Museum. FREE.

1.00pm
Lunch at pub with traditional music by Vincent McKenna and friends.

Grace Moloney
has been working for the Clogher Historical Society based at St Macartan's College in Monaghan on a part-time basis for ten years. She has researched, written and lectured extensively about local history in the Clogher Diocese. Her main interest is the history of County Monaghan, especially maps, place-names, archaeology, natural history (forests and bogs), social history and the history of women.

Theresa Loftus
has worked in Monaghan County Museum since 2004. Initially she worked in registration, moved to education and outreach and became Exhibition / Research Officer in 2007. She studied Local History in NUI Maynooth and Museum Practice and Management at the University of Ulster.

TOUR OF MONAGHAN TOWN INCLUDING CARLETON-RELATED SITES. THE ROUTE TAKES IN:
* Hill St & Park St (site of town gate, Market House, Aviemore – home of land agent Dacre Hamilton, reputedly the inspiration for Carleton's Valentine McClutchy – site of 1602 building – tunnel)
* Mill St (the town's first mill)
* North Road (possible site of holy well,
beheading of friars c1540, Orange Hall)
* St Peter's Lake (associations with 'Honest' Peter McPhillips a class-mate of Carleton at Fr John Keenan's classical school), legend about two lakes
* Glaslough St (early bowling green, RIC barracks, Masonic hall)
* The Diamond (Bleckley's school & past pupils, Westenra Hotel and memorial and mausoleum)
* Dublin St (birthplace of Charles Gavan Duffy, Baird’s pub, Orange Hall, site of town gate)
* Old Cross Square (Presbyterian Meeting House, Market Cross, Shambles, canal, Monaghan abbey)
* Rear of Courthouse (Plantation castle and main entrance into the Diamond, fishponds, oldest buildings in the town)
* Church Square (Courthouse, coat of arms, bomb memorial, jail (Johnny Short's hotel), St Patrick's Church of Ireland, Bram Stoker, Westenra family, Dawson memorial, Hive of Knowledge)