Roosky

147 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roosky, from 2 m² to 40,376 m² (4.04 ha, 9.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 112 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 39 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation/Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Landscape Protection/Conservation (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 10 Sept 2026N/a

  permission for development at a Protected Structure (MCC Ref: 41001086) located within an Architectural Conservation Area, comprising the following i. demolition of existing three-storey rear return and reconstruction to the original height & footprint, ii. alterations to existing window and door openings, together with the formation of new openings. iii. revised design to that previously approved under MCC Ref: 25/60252, comprising the reversion of the third floor to attic/storage use in lieu of the previously approved one-bedroom apartment, iv. alterations to the existing foul and surface water drainage connections, as required , together with all associated site development and ancillary works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660381

• 30 Apr 2026Refused

  permission for development. The proposed development will consist of the extension of the existing ground-floor retail unit through amalgamation with the adjoining premises to provide an enlarged retail floor area, including internal alterations and reconfiguration works. The development will further consist of the change of use and conversion of the existing unoccupied first and second floors into 2 No. self-contained one-bedroom studio apartments, together with all associated site development works. The proposed works pertain to Protected Structures identified in Appendix 1(b) — the Record of Protected Structures for Monaghan Town — within the Monaghan County Development Plan 2025–2031, specifically Reference Nos. 41001180 and 41001179. Significant further info received included an Architectural heritage impact assessment, water protection checklist, waste management plan , revised drawings and press notice.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660165

• 22 Apr 2026Conditional

  permission for the reconfiguration of original fixed pews and the installation of free-standing individual seating, at Monaghan Methodist Church Dawson Street, Monaghan - Protected Structure (NIAH Ref: 41303137)

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660147

• 2 Apr 2026N/a

  permission for development at Nos. 55 and 56 Dublin Street, Monaghan (H18 X754 and H18 DT38). The proposed development will consist of the extension of the existing ground-floor retail unit at No. 56 Dublin Street through amalgamation with the adjoining premises at No. 55 Dublin Street, to provide an enlarged retail floor area, including internal alterations and reconfiguration works. The development will further consist of the change of use and conversion of the existing unoccupied first and second floors of No. 55 Dublin Street into 2 No. self-contained one-bedroom studio apartments, together with all associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660128

• 19 Mar 2026Conditional

  permission to convert the unoccupied first floor of the existing commercial premises to form a self-contained one-bedroom apartment. The works will include internal reconfiguration and alterations, modifications to the external elevations, roof alterations, and adjustments to the existing access arrangements

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660099

• 8 Jan 2026N/a

  permission will consist of construction of a new astro turf playing pitch with 2.40m high metal perimeter fencing and associated netting (combined height 6.40m), 4 no. 12m high columns with 2 floodlights per column, changes to front elevation of existing club house to include the removal of existing front door, to be replaced with a new curtain panel system new storage/maintenance shed with a new car parking area, connection to existing foul rising main and all associated site works. Significant further information received includes a flood risk assessment, landscaping details, additional drainage, and revised maps.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660003

• 5 Dec 2025N/a

  permission for a development which will consist of: construction of a new astro turf playing pitch with 2.40m high metal perimeter fencing and associated netting (combined height 6.40m), 4 no. 12m high columns with 2 floodlights per column, changes to front elevation of existing club house to include the removal of existing front door, to be replaced with a new curtain panel system new storage/maintenance shed with a new car parking area, connection to existing foul rising main and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560487

• 17 Sept 2025Conditional

  permission to erect a two-storey kitchen & bedroom extension to rear of the three-storey property, change of use of existing shop from commercial to domestic, connect to existing services and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2579

• 13 Aug 2025N/a

  permission to erect a single storey kitchen extension to rear of three storey property and change of use from part commercial to domestic use

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2564

• 18 Jul 2025Conditional

  permission for the development will consist of: change of use of existing ground floor retail unit to a pizza restaurant with ancillary takeaway and coffee sales, including minor internal alterations and installation of an odour extraction system to the side, and all associated works.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560280

• 4 Jul 2025N/a

  planning permission for the following development: Change of use of an existing retail unit to a pizza restaurant with ancillary takeaway and coffee sales, including minor internal alterations and the installation of an extraction system to the side of the premises

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560260

• 1 Jul 2025Conditional

  permission for the following development to a Protected Structure (MCC Ref: 41001086) within an Architectural Conservation Area: alterations and refurbishment of existing ground floor retail unit & ancillary first floor space; material change of use of second & third floors from retail to residential use comprising of 1 no. 2 Bed Apartment & 1 no. 1 Bed Apartment; alterations to the existing façade, including new openings and signage; alteration of existing foul & storm drainage connections as necessary; provision of ancillary accommodation, including open space, bicycle parking and waste storage facilities; together with all associated works. Significant Further Information received relates to an Architectural Heritage Impact Assessment and amended drawings incorporating requested revisions.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560252

• 23 Jun 2025N/a

  permission for change of use of an existing retail unit to a pizza restaurant with ancillary takeaway and coffee sales, including minor internal alterations and the installation of an extraction system to the side of the premises

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560241

• 29 May 2025Conditional

  planning permission for the development which will consist of proposed new signage, 2 no., to north and north-west elevations, proposed 1 no. new ATM to front façade (north elevation) along with internal alterations to existing bank premises and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560216

• 16 May 2025N/a

  permission for the removal of original fixed pews and the installation of free-standing individual seating - Protected Structure (NIAH Ref: 41303137). Significant Further Information received relates to an Architectural Heritage Impact Assessment.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560190

• 7 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission to modify the current permitted use of the existing two-story premises to allow for the subdivision of the premises into individual units for commercial activity, including amendments to the internal layout, elevational changes, associated retail signage, and site works situated at Units 2-5 Diamond Complex, The Diamond, Monaghan, H18 V2V0. The proposed development is located within the vicinity of a protected structure of local importance situated at Roosky Td, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460407

• 11 Oct 2024Conditional

  planning permission for the development of: i.)change of use of the second floor bar facilities to provide additional accommodation incorporating 7No. Bedrooms and ensuites; ii.)introduction of 2No. windows to the eastern elevation; iii.)conversion of 2No. first floor bedrooms to an Enabling bedroom and shower room; iv.)conversion of 2No. second floor bedrooms to an Enabling bedroom and shower room; v.)retention of secure Car Park incorporating 29No. Car parking spaces together with the provision of electric charging points, access gates, walls and piers to St. Peters Lake car park access point; vi.)retention of 2No. automatic opening vents to existing roof, vii.)permission for the variation to condition 1 and 2, of Planning Permission MT58/02 viii.)permission for the variation to condition 2, of Planning Permission MT29/04 ix.)all associated works Significant further information relates to submitted, Water Protection checklist, Car parking report & revised site layout plan

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460375

• 17 Jul 2024Conditional

  permission for a change of use of existing permitted use to a restaurant and food takeaway establishment, including amendments to the internal layout, improvements to sanitary facilities, associated retail signage, and pertinent site works. (The proposed development is located within the vicinity of a protected structure of local importance situated at Roosky Td, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan)

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460246

• 27 Feb 2024Conditional

  permission for a new daycare centre for the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, detached garage, new vehicular entrance and all associated site civil works, Significant Further Information submitted relates to, Revised Drawings, Stage 1 & 2 Road Safety Audit

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460070

• 15 Feb 2024Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of: accessibility works to the existing exterior and interior of the bank to include (a)lowering a portion of the internal floor to facilitate the installation of a new ramp. b)regrading existing path level at main entrance to provide level access. (c)ancillary works to existing main entrance door and internal lobby door and all ancillary site works. The building is a Protected Structure (NIAH ref No.41303118) and is within an Architectural Conservation Area.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460055

• 8 Feb 2024Conditional

  permission for proposed works consisting of: St. Davnet’s Hospital is listed as a protected structure under the current Monaghan County Development Plan 2019-2025 (RPS no. 41400945). It is proposed to carry out refurbishment works to the 2 no. buildings which are located to the south west (Building 1) and north east (Building 2) of the main building on the site. Building 1 was historically known as Ward 1,2 & 5 and is listed on the NIAH under reference no. 41303049, Building 2 was historically known as Ward 6,7 & 11 and is listed on the NIAH under reference no. 41303047. The proposed refurbishment works comprise of: (a) the careful removal of the existing non-original metal windows from Building 1 & Building 2 referred to above, (b) the installation of replacement metal (aluminium) windows, the design of which will match the appearance of the existing windows in the adjoining main building (c) carry out all associated works to make good reveals, heads, cills etc. in accordance with best conservation practice

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460044

• 21 Jul 2023Conditional

  development consisting of; 1. Permission for the erection of 6 no. new 18m high columns with 8 floodlights per column to existing training pitch 2. Permission to retain & complete access walking path to training pitch 3. Retention permission for as installed 4 no. 18m high columns with 8 floodlights to the juvenile playing pitch and all associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 23160

• 29 Jun 2023Conditional

  permission of a change of use from the current permitted use of a shop unit to a restaurant and takeaway unit, associated site works and change to internal layout. This application relates to a premises situated in an architectural conservation area.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360132

• 9 Jun 2023N/a

  permssion consisting of:- accessibility works to the existing exterior and interior of the bank to include the: a) Extension of existing window ope to finished ground floor level of interior b) Fitting of New Part M compliant Entrance door in former window opening c) Adjustment of footpath to accommodate Part M compliant entrance and all associated ancillary site works. The building is a Protected Structure (Ref No. 41303118) and is within an Architectural Conservation Area

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360112

• 18 Apr 2023Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of a change of use from the current permitted use of a bank/financial institution related to a restaurant with takeaway use and all associated site works. This application relates to a protected structure and these premises are also situated in an architectural conservation area.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 23109

The 25 most recent of 65 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Roosky.

Recorded monuments

• MO009-060 Historic town
  Description

  Monaghan town (Muineacháin – hilly place) is situated on a hill or low ridge between Peter’s Lake to the N and Convent Lake to the S. There are references to a McMahon ‘caislean’ or castle at Monaghan in 1492 (AFM, AU), which is described as a ‘house’ in 1496 (AU). It is probably the crannog in Convent Lake (MO009-037----), which is described on a map of c. 1590 as ‘McMahon’s house’. The foundation of a Franciscan friary (MO009-060002-) nearby in 1462 would have added to the developing nucleus of a settlement, and this has been demonstrated through excavation (MO009-06010-). Monaghan was incorporated as a county with five baronies in 1585, and this location where there was already a friary and a strongpoint of the MacMahons as well as a small settlement may have been selected then for future development as the county town. In 1589-91 the lord deputy, Sir William Fitzwilliam, took advantage of a Mac Mahon dispute to establish a garrison here at the friary. This was part of a political and land settlement that effectively abolished the Mac Mahon chieftainship and the use of Brehon law in the territory. The land settlement was generally accepted by the larger Gaelic magnates as it secured their personal estates, and it also ensured that the county escaped plantation with the other Ulster counties after 1603. However, the infiltration of settlers through the foreclosure of debt and land purchase continued apace. (Moore 1955, 34-7; MacDuinnshleibhe 1955, 49-50; Duffy 1981, 2) Although the garrison at Monaghan was successfully re-supplied after the government defeat at the battle of Clontibret in May 1595, it was probably abandoned soon afterwards and it was not re-established until 1602 when its commander John Berkley built the small fort (MO009-060007-) N of the settlement (Hayes-McCoy 1960, 16; Livingstone 1982, 90-4). In 1604 Sir Edward Blayney was appointed seneschal or governor of the county and the garrison, and two years later he received extensive grants of land around the town and around what would become Castleblayney (Duffy 1981. 14, fig. 5). These were confirmed in 1612, although the castle at Monaghan was specifically excluded (Coyle 1980). In 1606 Sir John Davies, the attorney general, described the town as ‘consisting of divers scattered cabins or cottages, whereof the most part was possessed by the cast soldiers of that garrison. In the northmost part thereof there is a little fort, which is kept by the foot company of Sir Edward Blayney, who is seneschal or governor of the county by patent. In the midst of this village there is a foundation of a new castle, which being raised ten or twelve feet from the ground, and so left neglected for the space of two years, is now ready to fall into ruin again’ (quoted in Shirley 1879, 113; Livingstone 1980, 98). The town was incorporated in 1613, and had up to 100 houses in 1640. In the census of c. 1659 Monaghan town had an adult male population of 32 English and Scots and 101 Irish (Pender 1939, 149). The map by Richard Bartlett of c. 1602 shows a fortified enclosure with fourteen thatched houses and eight bastions. This is a fanciful idealised fortified town, which did not exist at Monaghan then, but the plan does show the ruins of the friary in the foreground and the little fort that was mentioned by Davies in the background. The town is represented on a slightly later map prepared for Sir Edward Blayney, probably c. 1611-13 and now held in Trinity College Dublin (Ms 1209 (32)), which was illustrated by Ó Gallachair (1962, 145). It depicts the town as a fortified rectangular area which was defended by walls or ramparts and outer fosses. It is situated between the two lakes, but both of these would have been larger than at present. There were five bastions in all and a gate on each side. At the centre the castle being built by Blayney is represented as a rectangular structure that has large rectangular corner towers at the angles and a small enclosed court on its N side in the style of fortified houses. This is within a rectangular bawn with corner bastions at the NW and SE angles. Gardens and fishponds lay to its S but in its curtilage, and the market place, now the Diamond, was immediately to the N. Three streets are represented running from the Diamond, that are now called Glasslough, Dublin and Mill Streets, with Market Street / Park Street running S from Mill Street W of the Diamond also represented on the map rather than Dawson Street, which appears to be a late eighteenth century creation (Bradley and Dunne 1989, 19-21). The town would have been a large rectangle (dims c. 500m E-W; c. 400m N-S), but it would not have been as regular as depicted on the Trinity map. The rear of properties on the identified streets provide the best indication of where the perimeter of the town lay, notably the straight lines formed by the backs of properties on the NE side of Dublin St. and the W side of Park St. Excavation (02E1147; 03E0027) on the N side of the Diamond uncovered evidence of a fosse where it might be expected on the N side of the town as well as evidence of floor levels inside it dating to 1550-1590 (O’Connor 2002, 2006). The sites of the friary (MO009-060002-), the original fort (MO009-060007-), the parish church (MO009-060012-), and Blayney’s castle (MO009-06003-) can be identified with some certainty but the only surviving monument from the era of the town’s foundation is the market cross (MO009-060006-), which is intact but no longer in its original location. See the attached images of Bartlett's map (MO009-060_1copy) and the Trinity plan (MO009-060_2-copy) Date of upload: 14 April 2011 Compiled by: Michael Moore

• MO009-060003 House - fortified house
  Description

  A castle was being built at Monaghan after 1604 by Sir Edward Blayney using material derived from the Franciscan friary (MO009-060002-). It was described in 1606 by John Davies, the attorney general, as ‘the foundation of a new castle, which being raised ten or twelve feet from the ground, and so left and neglected for the space of two years, is now ready to fall into ruin again.’ It is not represented on the Bartlett map of the town of 1602-03, which was more aspirational than actual. In 1611 the castle is described as ‘a fayre castle buylte at Monaghan on the king’s charge wherein Sr. Edward Blayne nowe dwells, who for making of it more convenient for himself for his owne tyme hath layde out good somes of money of his owne. ‘(Hunter 1975, 81). He is reputed to have spent £1200 on it. A map of the town, probably c. 1611-13 and now held in Trinity College Dublin (Ms 1209 (32)), which was illustrated by Ó Gallachair (1962, 145), shows the castle as a rectangular structure that has large rectangular corner towers and a small enclosed court on its N side in the style of fortified houses. The castle was within a rectangular bawn with a gate at the N and bastions at the NW and SE angles. South of the castle and within its curtilage the map shows gardens and fish ponds. In 1835 the site of this castle was pointed out as being on the Diamond opposite Glasslough St. (Herity 2012, 175) followed by Lewis (1837, 2, 384), but this structure was probably at the N side of the bawn, which would agree with the map of 1611-13. Archaeological excavations (96E0025; 96E0293) in the area to the SW failed to provide any evidence of the castle (Swan 1997a, 1997b). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 14 December 2017 See attached image of the plan of c. 1611-13 (MO009-060_2a copy) where it is item 'A' Compiled by: Michael Moore

• MO009-060004 Town defences
  Description

  Monaghan town is situated on a hill or low ridge between Peter’s Lake to the N and Convent Lake to the S. Monaghan was incorporated as a county with five baronies in 1585, and this location where there was already a friary and a castle or strongpoint of the MacMahons together with a small settlement may have been selected then for future development as a county town. In 1589-91 the lord deputy, Sir William FitzWilliam, took advantage of a Mac Mahon dispute to impose a land settlement, and established a garrison here, effectively abolishing the Mac Mahon chieftainship and the use of Brehon law. The garrison at Monaghan was probably abandoned in 1595 after the battle of Clontibret but it was re-established by John Berkley in 1602. In 1604 Sir Edward Blayney was appointed seneschal or governor of the county and the garrison, and two years later he received extensive lands around the town and what would become Castleblayney (Duffy 1981. 14, fig. 5). These were confirmed to him in 1612, although the castle at Monaghan was specifically excluded (Coyle 1980). In 1606 Sir John Davies, the attorney general, described the town but does not mention any fortifications (Hunter 1975). A map of Richard Bartlett of c. 1602 shows a fortified enclosure with fourteen thatched houses and eight bastions. This is a fanciful idealised fortified town, which did not exist at Monaghan then. The town is represented on a slightly later map prepared for Sir Edward Blayney, probably c. 1611-13 and now held in Trinity College Dublin (Ms 1209 (32)) which was illustrated by Ó Gallachair (1962, 145). It depicts the town as a fortified rectangular area which was defended by walls or ramparts and outer fosses. The town would have been a large rectangle (dims c. 500m E-W; c. 400m N-S), but it would not have been as regular as depicted on the Trinity map. The rear of properties on the identified streets provide the best indication of where the perimeter of the town and its fortifications lay, notably the straight lines formed by the backs of properties on the NE side of Dublin St. and the W side of Park St. (Bradley and Dunne 1989, 19-21). Excavations (02E1147; 03E0027) on the N side of the Diamond uncovered evidence of a large fosse (Wth of top 14-20m; max. D 3m) where it might be expected on the N side of the town. The fosse was lined with marl in order to retain water, which it could have taken from St Peter's Lough for the defences on this side, and similar trenches can be expected on the other sides. (O’Connor 2002, 2006) Date of upload: 14 April 2011 See attached images of Monaghan town by Bartlett 1602 (MO009-060_1 copy) and c. 1612-13 (MO009-060_2a copy) Compiled by: Michael Moore O’Connor, D. 2002 Archaeological assessment of site of The Westerna Arms Hotel at The Diamond, Monaghan Town, Count y Monaghan. Licence No. 02E1447, unpublished report, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.

• MO009-060005 Burial
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Burials uncovered during construction of public facilities in Church Square, Monaghan town, in 1940s.

• MO009-060006 Cross - Market cross (present location)
  Description

  The cross is first recorded in 1714 (McKenna 1920, 1, 80-3) and it is described as ‘Market Cross’ in italic lettering on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map at the centre of the Diamond where it had stood with the stocks beside it. Around 1875 the Rossmore Memorial, a neo-gothic memorial fountain, was erected in its stead and the Market cross was discarded. This caused great controversy at the time, when Nationalists rescued it and re-erected in the small square known as the Shambles and now called Old Cross Square. By the time Nationalists had a majority on the council in 1898 the heat had gone out of the issue, and the cross remains in Old Cross Square (McKenna 1920 1, 80-3). It is depicted on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map as being in the centre of the square but this location must have caused traffic problems and it is now at the N side of the square. However, in setting up the cross here the head was attached upside down so that it no longer functions as a sun-dial (McMahon and Walsh 1982, 16). Six limestone steps lead to the rectangular base (dims 0.56m x 0.56m; H 0.446m) which supports a tapering limestone shaft (dims at base 0.44m x 0.43m; H 1.72m) with chamfered edges and curved stops. The head is a polygonal stone with four hemispherical hollows on different facets, each of which was originally aligned on a cardinal point. A gnomen or pointer would cast a shadow on lines in a particular cup depending on the time of day and season of the year. Even the N-facing cup provided readings on long summer’s evenings. (ibid.) See the attached image taken from the E Date of revised upload: 14 December 2017 Compiled by: Michael Moore

• MO009-060009 Graveyard
  Description

  The parish church of Monaghan town (MO009-060012-) was established by 1641 (Shirley 1879, 309-10), and its graveyard that is still extant around the Church of Ireland church of St Patrick as a D-shaped area (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) with straight sides at the E and S where it is defined by buildings but the perimeter is curved W-N where it is defined now by railings. Archaeological testing (03E1672) undertaken in 2003 prior to the erection of a memorial to the victims of the Monaghan bombings in 1974 located c. 8m W of the perimeter of the graveyard exposed both disarticulated human remains and one in situ skeleton oriented in an east-west direction. The remains are part of the graveyard and were preserved in situ (McCarthy 2006). Further archaeological monitoring (05E0219) of trenches in Church Square recovered some disarticulated remains representing three individuals. (Delaney 2008). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 16 November 2016 Amended: 13 January 2020

• MO009-060010 House - 16th century
  Description

  Archaeological excavation (Excavation Licence No. 02E1147) in advance of development at the Westenra Arms Hotel revealed continuous occupation levels dating from the 16th to the 20th century and an earlier phase of activity of which the exact date is unknown. This early phase of activity was represented by a series of post- and stake-holes and possible traces of wattles. Above this layer was a series of clay floors which are believed to date to between 1550 and 1590. A section of the town ditch (MO009-060004-) was also exposed. (O' Connor 2004, 440-1; O' Connor 2006, 401-2) References: O' Connor D. 2004, Westenra Arms Hotel, The Diamond, Monaghan Urban post-medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 440-1 (No. 1546). Bray. Wordwell O' Connor D. 2006, Westenra Arms Hotel, The Diamond, Monaghan Urban. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 401-2 (No. 1494). Bray. Wordwell Date of upload: 14 April 2011

• MO009-060011 Graveslab
  Description

  The Ancketill graveslab was recovered c. 1830 from the foundations of the present Church of Ireland church of St Patrick (Shirley 1879, 310), which is in the graveyard of the seventeenth century parish church (MO009-060012-). The memorial is now preserved in the porch of the present church at the base of its tower. It is a sandstone slab (L 1.88m; Wth 0.85m) set upright into a wall and it is illustrated by Shirley (ibid. 155). The four corners are cut away in the original design and the inscription in false relief is within a slight moulded border and beneath the Ancketill crest. Oliver Ancketill was the first of the family to come to Ireland from Dorsetshire, and he was the father of Mathew Ancketill, whose graveslab (MO007-014006-) is preserved in St Saviour's Church of Ireland church at Glaslough. The family were prominent in Donagh parish into the nineteenth century (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 464-5). The inscription reads: HERE LYETH THE BO / DY OF OLIVER ANCKE / TILL OF ANCKETILLS G / ROVE ESQVIRE DESCEND / ED OF THE ANIENT FA / MILY OF SHAWSTONE / IN DORSET SHIRE IN / ENGLAND, WHO DYE / D AT ARD MAGH A / ND WAS BURIED A / T MONAGHAN THE / 28th DAY OF / JVNE 1666. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 November, 2016

• MO009-060012 Church
  Description

  A church at Monaghan town is not known before the seventeenth century, and a church is not depicted on Bartlett’s map of 1602-03, or the Blaney map of c. 1611-13. However, a parish church of Rackwallace had been established in the town by the outbreak of the Rebellion in 1641 (Shirley 1879, 309-10), and when bishop Spottiswood describes the church of Rackwallace as ‘new built but indifferently repaired’ (Leslie 1929, 228-33) a church in the town is intended rather than at Rackwallace (MO014-014001-) c. 6 km to the SE. Rushe (1916, 34) asserts that there was no church in the town before 1725, although there are records of the Blaney family burying there from 1629 (Mahoney 1907 158). It is possible that the church was rebuilt during the eighteenth century. The present Church of Ireland church of St Patrick was built in 1830-35 when the Ancketill graveslab (MO009-060011-) was recovered from the foundations (Shirley 1879, 310). This graveslab is now preserved in the porch of the present church at the base of its tower. The old church, of which nothing remains, is depicted on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map just N of the present building as a smaller structure (dims c. 20m E-W; c. 10m N-S) with a projection at the W end. It is described on the map as the ‘Old Church’ and is at the N edge of a D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) with straight sides at the E and S where it is defined by buildings but the perimeter is curved W-N where it is defined now by railings. Archaeological testing (03E1672) undertaken in 2003 prior to the erection of a memorial to the victims of the Monaghan bombings in 1974 located c. 8m W of the perimeter of the graveyard exposed both disarticulated human remains and one in situ skeleton oriented in an east-west direction. The remains are part of the graveyard and were preserved in situ (McCarthy 2006). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 November, 2106

• MO009-060013 Bawn
  Description

  A castle (MO009-060003-) was being built at Monaghan after 1604 by Sir Edward Blayney using material derived from the Franciscan friary (MO009-060002-). It is not represented on the Bartlett map of the town of 1602-03, but it is shown on a map of the town, probably c. 1611-13 and now held in Trinity College Dublin (Ms 1209 (32)), which was illustrated by Ó Gallachair (1962, 145). It shows the castle within a rectangular bawn (B) with a gate at the N and bastions at the NW and SE angles. South of the castle and within its curtilage the map shows gardens and fish ponds. In 1835 the site of the castle was pointed out as being on the Diamond opposite Glasslough St. (Herity 2012, 175) followed by Lewis (1837, 2, 384), but this structure was probably at the N side of the bawn, which would agree with the map of 1611-13. Archaeological excavations (96E0025; 96E0293) in the area to the SW failed to provide any evidence of the castle (Swan 1997a, 1997b). See attached image of the plan of c. 1611-13 (MO009-060_2a copy) where it is item 'B' Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 June 2018

Architectural heritage

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace two bay three-storey house, built c.1830, with single bay two-storey extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack with stepped cornice and terracotta pots, and replacement rainwater goods. Red brick laid on Flemish bond walls with yellow brick block-and-start quoins, smooth rendered walls to rear and elevation and extension walls. Square-headed window openings with yellow brick block-and-start surrounds and lintels, replacement uPVC windows, and stone sills. Square-headed door opening with yellow brick block-and-start surround and lintel, painted timber panelled door with overlight. Outbuildings to rear concealed by random rubble wall with square-headed door openings. House constitutes one of a terrace of eight largely identical houses.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1830, with single-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack with stepped cornice and terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walling to front, laid in Flemish bond, with yellow brick block-and-start quoins and surrounds to openings. Smooth rendered walls to rear and elevations. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC frames, and stone sills. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and overlight. Outbuildings to rear concealed by random rubble wall with square-headed door openings. House constitutes one of a terrace of eight largely identical houses.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1830, slightly advanced from terrace neighbour, and with single-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks with stepped cornice and terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick front wall laid in Flemish bond, and with yellow brick block-and-start quoins and surrounds to openings. Smooth rendered walls to rear elevations. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC frames, and stone sills. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and overlight. Outbuildings to rear concealed by random rubble wall with square-headed door openings. House constitutes one of a terrace of eight largely identical houses.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two bay three-storey house, built c.1830, with single-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack having stepped cornice and terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls to front, laid in Flemish bond, with yellow brick block-and-start quoins and surrounds to openings. Smooth rendered walls to rear and return. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, and stone sills. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and overlight. Outbuildings to rear concealed by random rubble wall with square-headed door openings. House constitutes one of a terrace of eight identical houses.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two bay three-storey house, built c.1830, with single-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack having stepped cornice and terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walling to front elevation, laid in Flemish bond, with yellow brick block-and-start quoins and surrounds to openings. Smooth rendered walls to rear and return walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, and stone sills. Square-headed door opening with yellow timber panelled door and overlight. Fronts directly onto street. Outbuildings to rear concealed by random rubble wall with square-headed door openings. House constitutes one of a terrace of eight identical houses.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1830, with single-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack having stepped cornice and terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walling to front, laid in Flemish bond, with yellow brick block-and-start quoins and surrounds to openings. Smooth rendered walls to rear and return. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, and stone sills. Square-headed replacement glazed timber door with overlight. Outbuildings to rear concealed by random rubble wall with square-headed door openings. House is one of a terrace of eight identical houses.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1830, with single-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack having stepped cornice and terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walling to front, laid in Flemish bond, with yellow brick block-and-start quoins and surrounds to openings. Smooth rendered walls to rear and return. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, and stone sills. Square-headed timber panelled door with overlight. Outbuildings to rear concealed by random rubble wall with square-headed door openings. House is one of a terrace of eight identical houses.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house, built c.1830, with single-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack with stepped cornice and terracotta pots, and replacement rainwater goods. Red brick walling to front, laid in Flemish bond, with yellow brick block-and-start quoins and surrounds to openings. Smooth rendered walls to rear, return and gable. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, and stone sills. Square-headed timber panelled door with overlight. Outbuildings to rear concealed by random rubble wall with square-headed door openings. House is one of a terrace of eight identical houses.

• Post box, 1850–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box with hinged door, installed c.1875, with banded margin surround, projecting letter slot with raised 'POST OFFICE' insignia, VR royal cipher to upper portion, 'Eagle Range & Foundry, Bernard P. Walker & Co' foundry stamp to bottom portion. Set into random rubble boundary wall at roadside at north edge of Monaghan Town.

• House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey house, built c.1880, with integral carriageway to west end bay, and having single-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with polychrome brick chimneystack with stepped cornice and polygonal terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods, and with yellow brick cogging eaves-course. Red brick walling to front, laid in Flemish bond, with ashlar sandstone block-and-start quoins, chamfered sandstone plinth, and with yellow brick surrounds to openings. Smooth rendered walls to rear elevation and to return. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, and sandstone sills. Round-arch door opening with timber panelled door and timber spoked fanlight, and sandstone threshold. Segmental-arch carriageway has yellow brick voussoirs. Set back from street with garden to front with boundary demarcation comprising saddle-back stone plinth surmounted by railings of cast and wrought iron. Terrace of two-storey outbuildings to rear comprising pitched natural slate roof, smooth rendered random rubble walls, and square-headed openings. House constitutes one of a terrace of four largely identical houses.

• House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1880, with single-bay return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with red brick chimneystack with stepped cornice and polygonal terracotta pots, cast-iron rainwater goods, and yellow brick cogging eaves course. Red brick walls to front, laid in Flemish bond, with chamfered sandstone plinth, and having yellow brick block-and-start starts to openings. Smooth rendered walls to rear elevations. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, and sandstone sills. Round-arch door opening with timber panelled door with spoked timber fanlight, and sandstone threshold. Set back from street with garden to front with boundary demarcation comprising saddle-back stone plinth surmounted by railings of cast and wrought iron. Terrace of two-storey outbuildings to rear having pitched natural slate roof, smooth rendered random rubble walls, and square-headed openings. House constitutes one of a terrace of four largely identical houses.

• House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1880, with single-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with polychromatic chimneystacks with stepped cornice and polygonal terracotta pots, cast-iron rainwater goods, and yellow brick cogging eaves-course. Red brick walling to front elevation, laid in Flemish bond, with chamfered sandstone plinth, and with yellow brick block-and-start quoins and surrounds to openings. Smooth rendered walls to rear elevations. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, and sandstone sills. Round-arched door opening with timber panelled door having spoked timber fanlight, and sandstone threshold. Set back from street with garden to front with boundary demarcation comprising saddle-back stone plinth surmounted by railings of cast and wrought iron. Terrace of two-storey outbuildings to rear having pitched natural slate roof, smooth rendered random rubble walls, with square-headed openings. House constitutes one of a terrace of four largely identical houses.

• House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey house, built c.1880, with single-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with polychromatic chimneystack with stepped cornice and polygonal terracotta pots, cast-iron rainwater goods, and yellow brick cogging eaves course. Red brick walling to front elevation, laid in Flemish bond, with ashlar sandstone block-and-start quoins and chamfered sandstone plinth. Yellow brick block-and-start surrounds to openings. Smooth rendered walls to rear elevations. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, and sandstone sills. Round-arched door opening with timber panelled door having spoked timber fanlight, and sandstone threshold. Set back from street with garden to front with boundary demarcation comprising saddle-back stone plinth surmounted by railings of cast and wrought iron. Terrace of two-storey outbuildings to rear having pitched natural slate roof, smooth rendered random rubble walls, and square-headed openings. House constitutes one of a terrace of four largely identical houses.

• Saint Davnet's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey former Monaghan Mental Asylum building, built 1864-7, having central five-bay block flanked to each side by projecting two-bay block, two-bay section and terminated by projecting block with triple window. Five-bay side elevations. Rear reflects arrangement of front, although sections project more and terminating blocks have further infill with lower roofs and accompanied flat-roof single-storey bays to re-entrant corners. Single-storey addition to middle of rear has rectangular-plan lantern, and fronted by further four-bay lower single-storey block. Hipped slate roofs with terracotta ridge and red brick chimneystacks having moulded brick chimney-waist and over-sailing courses to both party walls of central block as well as to north gables of rear two-bay projections. Cast-iron ogee-profile rainwater goods held on smooth rendered stepped cornice, except west wing which has overhanging eaves. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls with projecting smooth rendered base. West wing roughcast rendered. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and replacement uPVC or aluminium frames, except to ground floor of west wing which has margined steel-framed windows. Segmental-headed doorways to central block and flanking two-bay units, with two-pane overlights and double-leaf panelled timber doors. Double-leaf timber panelled doors to south façade of west wing, with steel-framed margined overlight. Building is part of Saint Davnet's Health Service Executive complex and located on an elevated site within extensive lawned grounds.

• Saint Davnet's Hospital, church/chapel, 1930–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding four-bay single-storey T-plan former hospital chapel (Catholic), built c.1940, having gable-fronted entrance projection. Further entrances to south-east gable and to west elevation. Pitched slate roof with blue-black clay ridge tiles and raised brick and limestone copings/parapets to gables with corbelled bases, half-round metal rainwater goods supported on chamfered stone corbels. English garden bond brick walls. Sandstone Latin cross flush to upper east gable. Round-headed window openings with sandstone surrounds and sills and timber small-pane metal casement frames. Square-headed doorways with lugged sandstone surrounds and moulded cornices, round and rectangular panels to friezes, timber panelled double-leaf doors, and stepped thresholds. Main doorway flanked by round-headed detached sidelights with fixed small-pane windows. Car parking to front and trees to rear.

• Saint Davnet's Hospital, building misc, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two square-plan water towers with cast-iron water storage tanks, built 1867, as part of former Monaghan Lunatic Asylum, to designs by Dublin architect and civil engineer John McCurdy. Slightly battered rock-faced sandstone walling with red brick block-and-start quoins and surrounds to openings, and cut limestone corbels to eaves, supporting outer edges of tanks. South-west tower has square-plan brick buttress to north side of east elevation, with stone cap. Painted square-plan cast-iron water tanks with rounded corners having wrought-iron straps to north-eastern tower. Both tanks have step ladders fixed to north-west elevations as well as having low pitched corrugated-iron roofs. Tank to north-west has lettering 'GEORGE CONNELL CONTRACTOR MONAGHAN' in raised lettering cast into north-west side of tank while south-east tank has 'ROSS & MURRAY DUBLIN 1867' cast in all sides. Windows paired on three elevations of towers, with square heads over narrow parallel openings having four-pane fixed timber frames and stone sills. Square-headed doorways to elevations that face each other, having sheeted timber doors. Tanks were originally situated at highest point of hospital site beside boundary which is no longer extant.

• Saint Davnet's Hospital, building misc, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron Avery weighbridge, installed c.1890, with embedded cart weighing platform and associated single-storey weigh-house. Rectangular-plan hip-roofed weigh-house has slate roof with rolled lead ridges and replacement plastic rainwater goods, walls of timber sheeted panels having chamfered timber frames over stretcher bond brick base. Square-headed timber sheeted door to north end.

• Saint Davnet's Hospital, gate lodge, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1867, originally T-shaped but with additional pile built to south during early twentieth century to create two offset attached rectangular piles with canted bay windows to west gable-fronted elevation. Pitched slate roof with black clay ridge tiles, replacement metal rainwater goods on replacement uPVC covered eaves, and pair of brick chimneystacks with concrete capping to northern pile with single yellow brick chimneystack to southern ridge. With exception of English garden wall-bonded brick lean-to boiler house to south elevation, all other walls are of squared, quarry-faced coursed rubble limestone with block-and-start brick dressings and quoins. Cut-stone capped projecting plinth to some original parts of building with section missing where projection to east bay of north elevation was removed during twentieth century. Smooth render plinth to twentieth-century south-east extension. Segmental-headed window openings with brick arches, block-and-start surrounds and stone sills, with replacement uPVC frames throughout. Square-headed doorway to south elevation having red brick surround, two stone steps and replacement uPVC door. Surrounded by lawns enclosed by smooth rendered garden wall along main entrance avenue to Saint Davnet's Hospital complex. Decorative recent steel gates to south side of building on slender stone posts having chamfered and stopped arrises and moulded cap.

• Saint Davnet's Hospital, office, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Irregular-plan two-storey medical superintendent's house, built c.1880, having stepped-plan four-bay front, west, elevation with flat-roof porch occupying middle re-entrant corner, three-bay stepped-plan south elevation having canted bay window to east end bay, three-stage campanile-type tower to middle of west elevation, with recent gabled single-storey extension, and three-bay three-storey elevation to north with recent two-bay two-storey late twentieth-century extension. Hipped slate roofs with black clay ridge tiles, overhanging eaves supported by paired carved timber brackets, with half-round cast-iron rainwater goods attached to timber fasciaboard. Gable to bay behind porch has pediment detail. Porch roof has brick parapet. Lead sheeted pyramidal roof to tower, with delicate wrought-iron pinnacle also with overhanging timber eaves supported by smaller paired carved timber brackets. Replacement plain brick chimneystack with concrete capping to south-east end of north-east ridge. With exception of smooth rendered late twentieth-century flat-roofed and gabled extensions other walls are of dressed coursed rubble limestone with block-and-start brick dressings and quoins. Cut-stone projecting sill course to first floor levels as well as moulded ashlar projecting plinth to all elevations. First and second stage of tower share same masonry as rest of building while upper brick-built stage consists of square brick pilasters each on stone plinth held by ashlar stone table and creating three-light, round-headed arcades to each face having stone archivolts and keystones beneath rounded projecting stone string course which supports paired brackets that hold overhanging eaves of roof. Segmental-headed window openings to all stone-built elevations having brick arches, surrounds and stone sills with small number of square and round-headed openings, all containing one-over-one pane timber sliding sash frames with ogee horns. Central first floor window to north-east elevation has large central segmental-headed window with stone mullions and two flanking blind square-headed brick panels. This reflects central ground floor façade window which has same stone mullion arrangement but has square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding side-lights to match central segmental-headed window frame instead of blind panels. Canted brick bay window to south-east end of rear north-east block having hipped slate roof with rolled lead ridge and cast-iron ogee-profiled gutters on moulded smooth render cornice. Segmental-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window frames with ogee horns on three elevations with roll-topped ashlar stone base forming sill course. Stone sills to all ground floor window openings with stone sill course to first floor level. Segmental-headed brick-framed door opening with moulded stone keystone to south-east side of front façade having replacement square-headed double-leaf timber panelled doors with glazed overlight and side-lights, and timber to lower side panels. Small yard area enclosed by low English-bonded stone-capped brick wall to north-west corner of building with square corner pier having moulded stone cap. Hard-surfaced car parking to south-west and north-west with lawns of extensive historic Monaghan District Lunatic Asylum complex surrounding on western elevations.

• Saint Davnet's Hospital, gates/railings/walls, 1865–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Boundary walls of St Davnet's Hospital complex, built c.1867 onwards. Various sections of rubble stone. Dry rubble stone retaining wall, approximately 1.5m high, to south-west embankment of former Roosky Lane (only element of site to predate development of existing hospital) on south-west of historic hospital site with short roughcast rendered section leading to gateway with square smooth-rendered piers having moulded caps and projecting bases. These hold decorative wrought-iron gates to vehicular access, flanked by square-headed pedestrian doorways in stub walls on each side terminating with lower square smooth rendered piers. Continuing northward from gateway, stepped, mortared coursed rubble stone wall with over-sailing rubble stone cap rises over steep incline and forms west boundary to hospital site continuing through thick overgrowth towards former railway line which forms north-west boundary of site. Present grounds incorporates part of back-filled former Great Northern Railway Line (completed to Monaghan in 1858) with south elevation of Asylum railway bridge (also back-filled) forming part of northern boundary to site. Next accessible section of hospital boundary wall is to north-east limit of site where section of mortared rubble stone wall with rubble stone coping, approximately 2 metres in total height exists, including remains of circular gate pier at access from original asylum farm to original sewage tanks. This section of wall extends south-eastwards to tow path of Ulster Canal which is just outside east boundary of site. Steel-sheeted gateway near most south-easterly corner of this wall is held on square ashlar piers rebated to only allow gates to open towards farmyard and away from canal. Ashlar gateway and adjoining wall most likely date to c.1867 when Asylum Farm was constructed despite association with earlier Canal which dates from c.1839. Final surviving visible historic element of hospital boundary wall is single defunct brick gate pier south of main former asylum building and east of entrance to derelict swimming pool previously serving access way to original hospital sewage tank located where present playing fields exist. Other sections of boundary to present hospital site are either inaccessible due to dense overgrowth or have been removed or replaced with modern boundary walls or fences.

• Saint Davnet's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1935–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Multiple-unit brick building of between one and three storeys with total of twenty-six bays across central south-west facing block, flanking eight-bay wings angled to north and south ends of central block and eleven-bay extension to north-east containing main entrance façade, built c.1937-1943, to designs by Belfast architect Cormac MacLynn. Central five-bay section has flanking two-bay blocks on either side which project from central section. Cast concrete canopies over terraces on front elevation of building create sheltered open recreation areas and bowed ends to wings provide scope for extensive windows to light indoor sun-rooms. Roofs are hipped with black clay ridge tiles and slate cladding with a small number of simple brick chimneystacks having upended brick decoration and over-sailing moulded concrete cappings. Most front elevations and many to rear have parapet gutters drained by cast-iron hopper heads and circular downpipes, with half-round, cast-iron rainwater goods everywhere else. Walls are of brick laid to English garden wall bond with some un-bonded stretcher brickwork to prominent parapets on breakfronts and projecting bays. Parapets have plain concrete coping slabs with some ashlar stone dressing, notably in moulded cornice which surmounts breakfront on main central block and on entrance façade. Square-headed window openings with moulded concrete sills and replacement uPVC frames throughout with round-headed exceptions on stairwells. Almost all window openings have moulded or simple Bath stone, concrete or brick surrounds depending on prominence of each elevation. On south-east façade of main entrance building is generously proportioned five-bay, two-storey composition with slightly projecting central pyramidal-roofed tower rising to three storeys over main entrance doorway. Rest of roof is hipped with un-bonded stretcher brick parapets and end bays extending beyond eaves to create flat-roofed square projections. Upper stage of central tower has four narrow windows beneath full moulded render entablature, with single large square-headed window to first stage having Bath stone pediment, cornice of which is supported by two scrolled consoles. Moulded cement sill course, supported by two moulded stone brackets on central window, and ashlar Bath stone platband beneath this demarcate ground floor of building. This is faced with ashlar Bath stone to central three bays with only brick used on canted ground floor bay parapets. These bay windows flank central square-headed main entrance doorway with cut limestone lugged architrave, overlight with metal fish-scale decorative grill over glass and double-leaf panelled timber doors in chamfered and carved timber frame. Windows to end bays have ornate carved Bath stone surrounds with concrete cornices and sills. Part of Saint Davnet's hospital complex, building stands in extensive grounds, fronting onto lawned area with mature trees sheltering main façade from Monaghan Town.

• Saint Davnet's Hospital, outbuilding, 1865–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Fourteen-bay single-storey building, built c.1867, with at least three small extensions to south-east, and with adjoining three-bay two-storey building on lower ground level to south-east with single-storey, pyramidal-roofed structure between. Number of other smaller units exist on site as part of same group of structures including recently constructed boiler building. Hipped slate roofs with black clay ridge tiles to most building elements on this site with variety of metal louvred vents having some decoration on ridge of main north-west range. This range also has extended party walls between some internal rooms that create cut stone-capped brick parapets projecting through roof. North-east end of this range has gable end following truncation of longer building which originally stood here. Half-round, cast-iron rainwater goods held on brick eaves course visible to original rear north-west elevation of main single-storey range with other elevations of this as well as two-storey south-east building having half-round and ogee-profile cast-iron guttering respectively held on projecting square stone eaves course. Walls mostly of squared coursed and uncoursed rubble limestone with red brick dressings around openings and quoins with some smaller elevations built entirely of brick laid to English garden wall bond. Square-headed window openings with brick arches have stone sills with mostly ten-over ten pane timber sliding sash frames having convex horns and some larger twenty-over-twenty pane as well as eight-over-twenty pane frames. Also some smaller boarded windows and metal-grilled openings with and without sills. Several square-headed brick-framed single doorways exist with timber sheeted doors. Larger openings appear to be later insertions having concrete lintels and double-leaf battened timber doors with overlights. Part of original Monaghan Lunatic Asylum complex and forming substantial part of service structures to rear of extensive site, building now detached from main hospital structures, on terraced lawned area north-west of main hospital site.

• Saint Davnet's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Extensive two-storey building, over basement to part of north-east elevation, built c.1867, to plans by Dublin architect and civil engineer John McCurdy with S-shaped plan forming north-eastern wing of original 1867 Monaghan Lunatic Asylum complex. Hipped slate roofs with black clay ridge tiles to main elements of this building with small flat-roofed sections to toilet block extensions and short section which contains main entrance doorway and links southern nine-bay façade with sixteen-bay main ward building towards rear. Small number of smooth-rendered chimneystacks with concrete cappings, two lead-framed rooflights on south-west elevation of main ward building and half-round cast-iron rainwater goods held on overhanging eaves which have projecting brick platband beneath. Walls of squared coursed rubble limestone with block-and-start brick dressings and quoins above ground level, and ashlar stone quoins to areas of exposed basement level. Cut-stone projecting string course between floor levels as well as cut-stone cap over projecting plinth. Roughcast render to south-western elevation of rear part of building where former covered corridors were removed during twentieth century. Segmental-headed windows to south-west and north-east façades of southern building with square-headed window openings elsewhere, all having brick arches and surrounds with stone sills and steel frames having centrally pivoting panes. Glazed steel-framed doors on southern building with projecting cast concrete hood surmounted by steel-framed overlights, segmental-headed to south-east façade and square-headed to north-west elevation. Main entrance doorway to site located on south-west elevation of section linking south building with main ward structure. Porch added in mid- to late twentieth century with segmental-profile cast-concrete roof, brick walls and glazed timber double-leaf doors. Part of original Monaghan Lunatic Asylum complex and originally connected to other main buildings by covered corridors, building now detached from main hospital structures, set in extensive lawned grounds.

• Saint Davnet's Hospital, nurses' home, 1935–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Nine-bay two-storey building, built 1937-1943, to designs by Belfast architect Cormac MacLynn, with slightly projecting entrance bay to centre of front facade, two to three-bay, two-storey return to rear north-west elevation and single-storey unit enclosed within small, walled rear yard north-east of rear extension. Hipped slate roofs with black clay ridge tiles and sprocketed eaves with tall brick chimneystacks to each end wall and on either side of entrance bay, having upended brick decoration and over-sailing moulded concrete capping. Half-round, cast-iron rainwater goods held on overhanging eaves drain into decorative cast-iron hopper heads on façade with plain downpipe connections to rear. Walls of brick laid to English garden wall bond with projecting brick panels to corners resembling rusticated quoins and moulded concrete sill course to first floor level with broad ashlar Bath stone platband flush with wall beneath. Square-headed window openings have moulded concrete sills with small aprons, Bath stone surrounds and lintels with moulded concrete cornice to ground floor openings while first floor windows feature only plain concrete surround and moulded sill course. No sill course exists on rear extension although moulded concrete sills do continue. Frames are replacement uPVC throughout. Square-headed main entrance doorway has chanelled cut Bath stone architrave, timber overlight and timber double-leaf panelled door in chamfered and carved timber frame. Moulded cornice with small ashlar stone-built balcony over doorway, carried by two carved brackets, and first floor level of entrance bay has projecting brick bands to corners. Part of Saint Davnet's hospital complex, fronting onto lawned area which slopes away towards concrete fence to south-east.

• Saint Davnet's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Extensive two-storey building, over basement to part of south-west elevation, built c.1867, to plans by Dublin architect and civil engineer John McCurdy with S-shaped plan forming south-western wing of original 1867 Monaghan Lunatic Asylum complex. Hipped slate roofs with black clay ridge tiles to main elements of this building with small flat-roofed sections to toilet block extensions and short section which contains main entrance doorway and links south nine-bay façade with sixteen-bay main ward building towards rear. Small number of smooth-rendered chimneystacks with concrete cappings, two lead-framed rooflights on north-east elevation of main ward building and half-round cast-iron rainwater goods held on overhanging eaves which have projecting brick platband beneath. Walls of squared coursed rubble limestone with block-and-start brick dressings and quoins above ground level, and ashlar stone quoins to areas of exposed basement level. Cut-stone projecting string course between floor levels as well as cut-stone cap over projecting plinth. Roughcast render to north-eastern elevation of rear part of building where former covered corridors were removed during twentieth century. Segmental-headed windows to south-east and south-west façades of southern building with square-headed window openings elsewhere, all having brick arches and surrounds with stone sills and steel frames having centrally pivoting panes. Glazed steel-framed doors with steel-framed overlights on southern building, segmental-headed to south-east façade and square-headed to north-west elevation. Main entrance doorway to site located on north-east elevation of section linking south building with main ward structure. Porch added in mid- to late twentieth century with segmental-profile cast-concrete roof, brick walls and glazed timber double-leaf doors. Part of original Monaghan Lunatic Asylum complex and originally connected to other main buildings by covered corridors, building now detached from main hospital structures. Set in extensive lawned grounds.

• Saint Davnet's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Generally linear twenty-eight-bay, two-storey building, built c.1867, to plans by Dublin architect and civil engineer John McCurdy, with six-bay single-storey wings to north-east and south-west ends having canted bay windows to each end. Ten-bay central breakfront with large two-storey bay windows to each side. Two-storey range terminated by north-west rear returning blocks to each end and single storey pavilions forming bookends for entire composition. Hipped slate roofs with black clay ridge tiles and some sections of copper ridge broken through by stone-capped brick parapets to party wall that separate two middle bays and on each end of central ten-bay block. Small number of smooth-rendered chimneystacks with concrete cappings to end pavilions only and half-round cast-iron rainwater goods held on overhanging eaves with projecting brick platband beneath. Single-storey lean-to glazed canopy covers raised terrace which runs along entire length of south-east façade except two end pavilions, with continuous reinforced concrete beam supported by steel pillars. Walls of squared coursed rubble limestone with block-and-start brick dressings and quoins, with some additional cut-stone detail to window mullions. Cut-stone projecting string course between floor levels as well as cut-stone cap over projecting plinth on all elevations with additional stone platband beneath central string course on south-east façade only. Segmental window and door heads to south-east façade with all other openings to side and rear elevations being square-headed, except those on canted bays to side elevation of both end pavilions. All windows have brick arches and surrounds with stone sills and steel frames having centrally pivoting panes. Windows on all canted bays have ashlar stone mullions between closely spaced lights. Replacement timber doors on south-east façade all have segmental-headed steel-framed overlights and brick surrounds, or ashlar stone surrounds with brick arch heads where flanked by segmental-headed windows. Part of original Monaghan Lunatic Asylum complex and previously connected to side wing and rear service buildings by covered corridors, building now detached from main hospital structures and set in extensive lawned grounds facing south-east over open countryside and green space towards Saint Macartan’s Cathedral.

• Saint Davnet's Hospital, building misc, 1865–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Nine-bay two-storey building, built c.1867, with four-bay central block having recessed flanking bays and single-storey pavilions to each end of south-east façade. These originally connected to return wings at each end latter removed in twentieth century. North-eastern parts built 1940s. Hipped brick-built extension to rear north-west elevation with other smaller flat-roofed extensions. Hipped slate roofs with black clay ridge tiles, sprocketed eaves and valley to double-pile central block. Smooth-rendered chimneystacks with concrete cappings to ends of central block and half-round cast-iron rainwater goods held on overhanging eaves with projecting brick platband beneath. Except for stretcher-bonded brick north-east walls and hipped rear extension, other walls are of squared coursed rubble limestone with block-and-start brick dressings and quoins. Cut-stone projecting string course between floor levels as well as cut-stone cap over projecting plinth on all two-storey elements. Square-headed window and door openings with all those on stone-built elevations having brick arches and surrounds with stone sills and steel frames having centrally pivoting panes. On brick-built elevations, windows have concrete lintels and sills. Replacement glazed timber double-leaf doors on south-east façade with square-headed overlight in brick surround. Surrounded by hard-surfaced car parking within historic Monaghan District Lunatic Asylum complex and set in extensive lawned grounds facing south-east towards mature trees and green space.

• Saint Davnet's Hospital, church/chapel, 1895–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Italianate-style Catholic hospital chapel, built c.1900 probably to designs by Thomas McNamara of Hague & McNamara, having eight-bay nave, apse to east end, lower single-cell sacristy attached to south elevation, and projecting porch to gable-front. Pitched slate roof with four triangular louvred vents to each pitch, roll-top red clay ridge tiles, stone cross finial on brick pedestal to gable apexes. Stone ball finial on pedestal to sacristy gable apex. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast walling on chamfered red brick and cut-stone plinth, moulded brick dentillated cornice at eaves extended as string course to gable and painted at verge level. Moulded brick string course at window spring level, brick platband sill course, all punctuated by strip pilasters between bays and clasping corners. Gables have paired strip pilasters flanking porch extended over eaves level string course with attic level cornicing and stone ball finials to corners. Porch similarly detailed with unrendered brick walls, entrance set within slight advance, with moulded granite cornice having depressed pediment, blind round-headed window openings with stop-ended hood-mouldings and stone sills to each cheek. Round-headed multi-light clear glass metal casements, stone sills, brick jambs and hood-mouldings. Central window of apse blocked internally. Oeuil-de-beouf over entrance gable, with brick jambs and key-blocks to cardinal points. Round-headed entrance, with stained timber raised-and-fielded double-leaf door with six-light fan over, moulded archivolt sprung from imposts with stone keystone, flanked by pilasters with moulded granite bases and capitals. Interior has painted plaster walls, timber skirting boards and cornices, raised-and-fielded three-panelled double-leaf doors. Simple gabled pine fixed pews to raised timber flooring flanking simple tiled aisle. String courses at spring-level and sill-level continued with hood-mouldings throughout to chancel arch. Painted stone corbel-supported stained timber beams, varnished timber panelled ceiling, painted cast-iron tie-rod. Multiple-step marble dais with dwarf timber altar rail, marble table altar with high altar reredos. Situated in south part of hospital grounds, immediately north of and parallel to Church of Ireland chapel in contemporary similar design.

• Saint Davnet's Hospital, church/chapel, 1895–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Romanesque-style Church of Ireland hospital chapel, built 1900 to designs by Thomas McNamara of Hague & McNamara, Dublin, 'repaired' 1910 by William Scott of Dublin. Consisting of five-bay rectangular nave, polygonal chancel to east, lower two?bay vestry attached to east end of south elevation, and gable-fronted porch to west. Pitched slate roof, with perforated red clay ridge tiles, stone ball finials on pedestals to all gable and chancel apexes, no verges, moulded cast-iron gutters on moulded brick dentillated eaves course, brick chimneystack to vestry ridge. Painted roughcast walling on chamfered red brick and rock-faced sandstone plinth with vents. Strip rock-faced sandstone pilasters with red brick quoins between bays and clasping corners. West porch similarly detailed, brick gabled. Round?headed multi-light leaded stained-glass casements (to each bay, to each side of gable abutted by porch and diminished each porch cheek), stone sills, torus-moulded brick surrounds. Brick label-ended hood-mouldings to openings. Vestry elevations have square-headed windows (without hoods) and west has vertically sheeted door. Moulded stone rose window over entrance gable of eight pedals with central light, with brick hood. Round-headed entrance painted timber raised-and-fielded six-panelled double-leaf door, stop-end-chamfered stone lintel, brick tympanum, rebated opening spring from moulded pilasters with indented panels and hood over. Situated at south side of hospital grounds, immediately south of parallel Catholic chapel in contemporary similar design.

• Saint Davnet's Hospital, farmyard complex, 1865–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Square-plan enclosed courtyard with three-bay single-storey farm manager's cottage, single-storey storage buildings, two-storey barn, single-storey byre and stable with machinery shed attached, all built c.1867. Manager's cottage has three-bay rear extension creating L-shaped plan and forming east corner of farmyard; hipped slate roof with black clay ridge tiles, smooth cement rendered chimneystacks on external walls and replacement metal gutter on overhanging eaves; squared coursed rubble stone walls with block-and-start brick dressings to quoins and square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC frames and concrete sills, single-storey pebble-dashed porch on courtyard elevation of rear extension with catslide roof, single-storey flat-roofed brick-built porch to north-east external elevation of rear extension. L-plan two-bay by three-bay single-storey storage building forming north corner of farmyard continuing same hipped slate roof line of manager's house to abutment with two-storey barn, and having same squared, coursed rubble stone walls with block-and-start brick dressings to quoins and square-headed openings and lime-washed coating on courtyard elevations, replacement uPVC window frames with concrete sills and replacement timber door with overlight on exterior elevations and battened timber doors on courtyard elevations with one replacement window frame here also. Two-storey four-bay stone barn dominates farm courtyard, having hipped slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and overhanging eaves holding cast-iron, half-round rainwater goods; squared, coursed rubble stone walls, limewashed to ground floor on courtyard elevation, with block-and-start brick dressings to quoins and square-headed openings which have concrete sills; quoins to first floor level only on exterior elevation as this wall continues from adjacent single-storey buildings with full-height quoins on east corner of south façade where barn projects further into courtyard than adjacent range; only slit windows containing timber louvres remain, with exterior ground floor window having been closed with concrete blocks and courtyard interior first floor doorway blocked up with stone; openings on both elevations were originally arranged to be directly opposite each other with variation of segmental brick-arched vehicular access doorway to east end of courtyard elevation compared with timber sheeted pedestrian access door with overlight on exterior elevation; access to first floor doorway on north-east end is via straight external stone staircase having replacement steel rails holding handrail. Wrought iron square lamp bracket, probably fashioned by local blacksmith and fixed to wall at eastern end of courtyard façade formerly providing external lighting for yard, carriage arch and stairs. Square lantern would have originally sat within square hole on projecting bracket that was sturdy enough to support ladder for one to light the oil or candle lamp. Two-bay single storey building forming west corner of farmyard with hipped slate roof having black clay ridge tiles and plastic rainwater goods on timber fascia; tall stepped brick chimneystack with over-sailing stone course on west exterior wall; squared coursed rubble stone walls with brick dressings as elsewhere on site, limewashed to courtyard elevation with square-headed openings except segmental headed vehicular opening to east façade; unblocked windows have replacement uPVC frames and stone sills, and eastern pedestrian doorway has timber battened door with overlight. Three-bay single-storey timber-framed shed forming south corner of farmyard having hipped slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and plastic rainwater goods held on timber wall plate; timber uprights on cut-stone plinths with English garden wall-bonded brick infill and square-headed timber battened doors to each east courtyard elevation bay; rear, west wall of shed shares same squared, coursed rubble stone construction with adjacent building and has three concrete block-filled segmental headed brick openings at ground level – presumably doorways between pigsties and small outdoor runs. Single segmental-headed opening to south end wall at same low level with evidence of cement fillet from former lean-to structure here. Five-bay single-storey converted stable block links remaining brick-built courtyard elevation of small former three-bay two-storey structure to west with farmyard entrance gates to east side. Stables are front pile of converted pitched, corrugated fibre-cement sheeted shed which has open south-east elevation with the timber wall plate held on round steel uprights on short concrete piers; side walls of building consist partially of uncoursed rubble stone-built with brick quoins and have concrete blocks to upper levels where roof pitch has been altered more than once; courtyard façade of building is lime washed brick with remains of rubble stone construction to both ends; square-headed battened timber doors inserted into three of four former segmental arch-headed cart openings with further square-headed pedestrian doorways to each end; inside, cast iron and timber battened partitions divide former horse stalls. Entrance to farmyard has replacement steel-framed and sheeted gates hung on square ashlar stone piers with pyramidal stone caps. Farmyard has hard surfaced yard to south and north with overgrown grassy area to west and fenced kitchen garden to west.

• Store/warehouse, 1810–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-row gable-fronted three-storey former warehouse, built c.1825, presenting single-bay two-storey gable to street and five bays to long side elevations. Recently in use as shop and warehouse. Pitched slate roof with timber bargeboards to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth-rendered walling to front gable, random rubble walls with red brick repairs to south long wall, and with squared stone block-and-start quoins. Camber-arch openings to rear and long side walls, with red brick surrounds and voussoirs, battened timber doors to top and bottom floors, one wider opening to each floor. Square-headed former pitching door to first floor of front elevation with battened timber door. Replacement square-headed shopfront to street.

• Young Memorial Masonic Hall, masonic lodge/hall, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three bay two-storey over raised-basement masonic hall, built c.1880, with entrance approached by two-side steps. Single-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves having timber soffits, on carved timber brackets to gables, polychromatic brick chimneystacks, red brick eaves course, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth-rendered walls with red brick block-and-start quoins, with red brick sill course to first floor. Square-headed window openings with polychromatic brickwork block-and-start surrounds having moulded heads and jambs, red brick label-mouldings. Round-arch window opening to first floor of entrance bay with brick hood-moulding, all with one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows and painted sills to front elevation openings. Segmental-arch blind window openings to basement. Pointed window openings to rear elevation top floor, with yellow brick surrounds and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash frames with Y-tracery to middle and south bays, hood-moulding to middle bay, and one-over-one pane window with coloured glass incorporating Masonic symbolism to north bay. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane horned timber sash windows to middle floor of rear, and square-headed double window opening to ground floor rear with polychromatic brick surround and label-moulding, all ground floor rear windows now blocked up. Four-centred arch entrance opening to front, with doorcase having polychromatic brick surround with moulded jambs, red brick hood-moulding, timber panelled door with side-lights over timber panelled stall-risers, and overlight. Cut-stone steps with decorative cast-iron panel balustrade.

• House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1820, with steps to front door, and integral open doorway to south end of front elevation. Pitched artificial slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks with terracotta pots, and replacement rainwater goods. Smooth-rendered walls to front, random rubble exposed under render to rear. Square-headed window openings, front elevation having six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor, and rear elevation having six-over-six pane windows to first floor and with damaged frames to top floor. Square-headed timber panelled door reached by three steps and landing of dressed sandstone with wrought-iron hand-rail.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with access steps to ground floor, and integral carriage arch to south bay. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, smooth-rendered and red brick chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth-rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with rendered patent reveals, two-over-two pane horned timber sliding sash windows to first floor, and timber casement window to ground floor. Square-headed glazed timber panelled door, approached by two dressed sandstone steps with metal hand-rail. Segmental-headed carriage arch with battened timber door.

• Shop/retail outlet, apartment/flat (purpose-built), 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house-over-shop, built c.1840, with former carriage archway to ground floor now incorporating shopfront. Pitched artificial slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, red brick stretcher bond and rendered chimneystacks, former with red brick cogging and polygonal terracotta pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared coursed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with block-and-start sandstone surrounds and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-arch doorway leading to upper floors having block-and-start sandstone surround and voussoirs, timber panelled door and petal fanlight, sidelights with render stall risers above sandstone plinth blocks. Segmental-arch carriageway/shopfront with block-and-start sandstone surround and voussoirs, plain timber fascia and square-headed double-leaf timber panelled door flanked by one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows.

• Shop/retail outlet, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house-over-shops, built c.1830, with former carriage arches to ground floor now incorporating shopfronts. Pitched slate roof to south portion, artificial slate to north, red brick stretcher bond chimneystacks, and cast-iron downpipe. Squared coursed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with ashlar voussoirs, having replacement timber casement windows to north bays and replacement uPVC to south. Square-headed door opening to north bay with ashlar voussoirs, timber panelled door and coloured-glass overlight. Segmental arches to shopfronts with dressed voussoirs, plain timber fascias and recent timber doors and display windows.

• Public house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited three-bay three-storey house, built c.1820, with three-bay three-storey return, and with five-bay two-storey addition to north-west. Now in use as public house. Integral carriageway to east end bay, and with entrances to front and side elevations. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, smooth-rendered and brick chimneystacks, cast-iron profile guttering and downpipes, exposed king-post timber truss to west gable with decorative saw-tooth detail and supported on decorative moulded console brackets. Smooth-rendered walls with eaves course, and having moulded cornice to whole of ground floor of front and north-west blocks except for carriage arch. Square-headed window openings, front elevation having chamfered margins, and decorative keystone details to first floor. Timber sliding sash windows, mainly one-over-one pane, with four-over-two and six-over-three to ground floor, with painted stone sills. Square-headed door openings with replacement double-leaf glazed timber doors overlights. Depressed-arch vehicular entrance having recent double-leaf sheet metal door.

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced nine-bay three-storey building, built c.1850, comprising three former three-storey buildings. Now department store, with shopfronts to ground floor. Pitched natural slate roof with timber fascia to eaves, and replacement rainwater goods. Dressed coursed limestone walls. Square-headed window openings to top floor and camber-arch to first floor, with dressed stone voussoirs, and one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows and stone sills.

• Shop/retail outlet, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey house-over-shop, built c.1830, with recent timber shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof concealed by rendered parapet with smooth-rendered band to base, and smooth-rendered chimneystack having terracotta pots. Smooth-rendered walls with block-and-start render quoins to south-east corner. Square-headed window openings with smooth-rendered block-and-start surrounds, and one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows.

• Allied Irish Bank, bank/financial institution, 1800–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey bank, built c.1820 and present façade added c.1870, with four-bay ground floor. Five-bay two-storey addition to north with dormer attic, having eight-bay ground floor, north-most bay projecting slightly, and with two single-storey extensions to north-west. Pitched natural slate roof to main block, with smooth-rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots, concealed by parapet with stepped stone coping and stepped cornice. Mansard slate roof to addition, and flat roofs with slate-clad sides to dormers, with stone coping and moulded limestone cornice. Ashlar sandstone ground floor of both blocks, with pilasters flanking openings, and both blocks having dentillated cornice to ground floor, and moulded plinth. Smooth-rendered walls to upper floors of main building, with block-and-start render quoins. Square-headed window openings throughout, with moulded architraves to upper floors of both block, having moulded cornices to first floor of each, pediment with scroll brackets to middle bay of first floor of main block and to north-most bay of ground floor of addition. Six-over-six pane horned timber sliding sash windows to upper floors, and margined timber casement windows to ground floor with leaded overlights. Wide square-headed replacement timber panelled door to main block.

• Westenra Arms Hotel, hotel, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-row five-bay three-storey hotel with slightly raised basement and with dormer attic, built c.1840, with projecting porch to front, and multiple modern three-storey extensions to rear. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystacks with corniced copings and terracotta pots. Gablet dormers over all bays, having granite pediments, above moulded granite cornice supported on moulded red brick brackets, middle double dormer having granite plinth above. Roof to porch concealed by red brick parapet with moulded granite cornice in panels between short pilasters surmounted by carved stone urns, over entablature supported on square-plan granite columns with moulded capitals, bases and plinths. Red brick Flemish bond walls with channelled granite quoins, moulded granite plinth to ground floor, granite sill courses to upper floors, and coursed tooled rubble walls to basement. North elevation is ruled and lined smooth render. Main extension is brick above ruled and lined rendered basement walls. Front upper floors have square-headed window openings with moulded red brick surrounds and sandstone lintels, and ground floor has tripartite openings with granite surrounds comprising pilasters surmounted by corniced lintel on console brackets, and with pediment to middle lights, all with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Tripartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to north elevation. Square-headed door opening with sidelights and overlights set within carved granite doorcase comprising pilasters with moulded capitals and bases, and double-leaf timber panelled door, approached by five moulded steps. Boundary to area comprises granite plinth wall with moulded coping surmounted by decorative cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lys finials. Fronts onto pedestrianised area of Diamond. Building now incorporates neighbouring building (former town hall) to east.

• Town/county hall, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced gable-fronted three-bay three-storey over basement former town hall, built c.1840, with carved granite pediment to front elevation, and having projecting entrance with balconette over. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks with corniced copings and terracotta pots. Pediment comprises moulded raking cornice and base, both having moulded granite brackets beneath, those to base standing above moulded brick course and moulded brick brackets, tympanum of carved red sandstone carrying heraldic crest and foliate scrolls. Red brick Flemish bond walls with channelled granite quoins. Walling above ground floor recessed slightly. Courses of red brick in rotating-square basket-bond below eaves-course and to aprons below first floor sill course. Granite platband between top floors, above brick platband having brick dentil course. Moulded granite plinth to ground floor, and coursed tooled rubble stone walls to basement. Segmental-headed window openings to top floor and round-headed to first floor, flanked by brick piers having carved granite capitals, with granite plinths to top floor, moulded granite sill courses, moulded brick heads with plain granite keystones, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with fanlights/overlights. Round-headed window openings to ground floor, flanking entrance, set into round-headed recesses with moulded red brick surrounds incorporating granite keystone, and chamfered red brick sills. Segmental-arch headed door opening with granite doorcase surround comprising Doric pilasters surmounted by console-brackets carrying balconette; double-leafed timber panelled door with glazed upper panels and overlight. Segmental-headed door set within granite doorcase comprising square-plan columns with moulded capitals and bases, surmounted by brackets supporting entablature and moulded cornice over which is balconette having panelled corner piers, brick panels between piers, and moulded cornice. Building served by two steps with moulded threads. Granite plinth wall to basement area surmounted by decorative railings of cast-iron with fleur-de-lys finials. Fronts directly onto pedestrianised area of Diamond. Building now partially incorporated into neighbouring building (Westenra Hotel) to west.

• Shop/retail outlet, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two bay three-storey house-over-shop, built c.1840, with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, dentillated red brick eaves course, red brick chimneystack with stepped copings, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick Flemish bond walls with channelled granite quoins, granite band to sill level of top floor, granite sill course to first floor over moulded brick courses, decorative square bonded brickwork between upper floors, and dressed granite plinth forming stall-riser to base. Square-headed window openings with red brick voussoirs, granite sills to top floor, and with one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed shopfront with moulded brick surround, and recent timber panelled door and display window with paned overlight to whole, and electric light-box above.

• Alma House, shop/retail outlet, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited end-of-terrace house-over-shop, built c.1810, with four-bay side elevation, and recent timber shopfronts to two elevations. Hipped slate roof with lead ridge-flashings, red brick chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater-goods. Coursed squared rubble limestone walls, with dressed stone plinth. South-east corner is rounded. Square-headed window openings with dressed stone voussoirs and block-and-start surrounds, and having replacement timber sliding sash windows, six-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six to first floor, with horns. Blocked opening to side elevation.

• Shop/retail outlet, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house-over-shop, built c.1830, with recent timber shopfront and integral carriage arch. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack, cast-iron downpipe, and replacement guttering. Ruled and lined rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted margin surrounds and mainly one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows, and painted sills, with replacement uPVC windows to end bays of top floor.

• Rossmore Monument, monument, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding openwork memorial fountain, erected c.1876, comprising stepped octagonal stone plinth surmounted by eight grey marble columns with polygonal splayed carved stone bases and foliate capitals, supporting carved sandstone superstructure comprising pointed arches with chamfered reveals, with continuous triangular-arch hood-mouldings with carved foliage detailing. Carved shields over arches each carrying letters which together read 'ROSSMORE'. Above this is arcade of pointed arches with moulded surrounds and containing heraldic devices and plaques, flanked by square-plan piers with pyramidal caps, having triangular-arch hood-mouldings matching those below, with carved foliage detailing, carved finials to apexes. Monument topped by dome surmounted by eight grey marble columns with polygonal splayed carved stone bases and carved foliate capitals, surmounted by sandstone spire. Interior of monument has moulded grey marble base supporting grey marble fountain-bowl, over which is pink granite column having foliate capital, and with copper animal mask spouts. Vaulted ceiling to interior, and marble and limestone flag flooring.

• House, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1870, with timber shopfront to ground floor and integral carriage arch to east end of front elevation. Pitched artificial slate roof, projecting eaves, red brick chimneystack, and replacement rainwater goods. Flemish bond brick to front elevation with alternating yellow and red brick pattern to all except space between floors which has cogged yellow brick course, and with dentil string course to eaves. Segmental-headed recesses to each bay, extending from first floor window sill to second floor window head, and having yellow brick voussoirs, stone sills and two-over-two pane timber horned sliding sash windows. Shopfront is possibly replacement, with fluted pilasters, fluted and moulded brackets, plain fascia and square-headed timber-framed display window and recessed square-headed door opening with overlight, timber glazed door, clay tiled entranceway, and encompassing square-headed carriage arch.

• S. McKenna, house, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced one-bay three-storey house, built c.1850, with timber shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, projecting eaves, and brick chimneystack with brick corbelling and terracotta pots, and replacement rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walling. Square-headed openings, with stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Timber shopfront comprising pilasters with plinths and simple capitals supporting plain fasciaboard with painted lettering, moulded cornice, and framing fixed square-headed six-pane timber-framed display window with fluting to frieze over window, and square-headed door opening with overlight and double-leaf timber panelled door.

• Bank of Ireland, bank/financial institution, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited two-storey bank, built 1875, having three-bay elevation to Church Square, four-bay elevation to North Road, and entrance to curved corner bay. Hipped slate roof, conical to corner, with projecting eaves having moulded ashlar limestone cornice and brackets, carved ashlar chimneystacks with corbelling and decorative caps, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rock-faced sandstone walls built to courses, moulded string courses to each floor at sill and impost levels, ashlar limestone plinth course, and balcony over main entrance having ornate frieze framed by moulded coping and sting course and supported by corbels. Hibernian Bank monogram to carved plaque to first floor of Church Square elevation, also having polished granite discs, and with similar discs to ground floor of same elevation. Square-headed window openings to north gable elevation, having relieving arches, and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed window openings to ground floor of Church Square elevation and to bay of North Road elevation nearest entrance, and segmental-headed openings elsewhere to principal elevations, having carved recessed surrounds flanked by colonettes with floriate capitals, capitals of alternating hues, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Double window to North Road elevation has polished granite colonette between windows. Main entrance comprises square-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled door and stone step, with bowtell moulding to surround, flanked by polished granite columns having decorative bases and floriate capitals supporting moulded cornice, over which is projecting ashlar hood having round-headed recess with bowtell moulding to surround, discs to spandrels, inset plaque with incised lettering 'Hibernian Bank 1824' surrounded by carved shamrock decoration, with elaborate cornice having same detailing as balcony. Somewhat similar entrance to North Road elevation has square-headed door opening set into carved sandstone doorcase having bowtell moulding to jambs, moulded lintel, and carved timber panelled door with steps, flanked by pilasters having plinths. Upper part of entrance has coping comprising decorative frieze framed by moulded coping and cornice atop heavy paired brackets, latter flanking fanlight that has moulded surround, and with discs to spandrels.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey house, in use as shop and offices, built c.1830 with replacement shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof, with smooth rendered chimneystack, projecting eaves with brackets, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered lined-and-ruled walling. Square-headed window openings, having stone sills and one-over-one pane timber horned sliding sash windows.

• W.S. Black, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached six-bay three-storey building, built c.1830, in use as shop, with recent shopfront to ground floor, and same height one-bay annex to east. Hipped replacement slate roof with projecting eaves on moulded corbels, red brick chimneystacks, and replacement rainwater goods. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling to upper floors to Mill Street elevations, roughcast render to rear, with chamfered dressed ashlar quoins to south-west corner, and limestone facing to shopfront. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and timber horned sliding one-over-one pane sash windows. Wide square-headed doorways to annex and to west gable, latter elevation also having square-headed timber panelled door.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace four-bay three-storey house in use as shop and offices, built c.1830, with shopfront to ground floor. Hipped roof hidden by projecting eaves, red brick stretcher bond chimney stacks with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walling, smooth rendered cornice and plinth course, painted brick walling to shopfront. Square-headed window openings, stone sills with replacement uPVC windows. Shopfront comprising glazed timber frieze, smooth rendered faciaboard with fixed square-headed timber display windows with metal scissor horizontal sliding shutters and square-headed door opening with replacement uPVC display window and door, recessed square-headed door opening with timber glazed door and access steps to north. Fronts directly onto east side of Church Square.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited end-of-terrace three-bay three-storey house, built c.1830, rounded to south-east corner, and having recent dormer attic, built c.1830. Now in use as apartments. Recent mansard roof partially hidden by parapet, with red brick chimneystacks, and replacement rainwater goods. Roughly dressed rubble walls built to courses, with moulded stone cornice to ground floor. Camber-arch openings, having dressed voussoirs to lower floors, dressed stone lintels to top floor, with stone sills and replacement uPVC windows and doors.

• Monaghan Courthouse, court house, 1825–1830 · National interest
  Description

  Freestanding two-storey courthouse, built 1827, comprising five-bay front block with three-bay side elevations and pedimented three-bay breakfront comprising two centred half-fluted Doric columns and two flanking square piers surmounted by pediment with British Royal Coat-of-Arms to tympanum, projecting three-bay two-storey over basement wings to each side of rear, slightly recessed narrow two-bay two-storey over basement block to close rear of this U-plan arrangement, with further recessed two-storey block one-bay deep and six bays wide, easternmost bay being three storeys. Hipped slate roofs, pitched to rear gables of wings, with lead flashings, roofs concealed by parapet of ashlar sandstone, projecting carved sandstone string course at eaves level to front elevation, smooth-rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar sandstone walls to first floor of front elevation and side blocks, rusticated ashlar sandstone with double string course to ground floor of front elevation, dressed coursed rubble walls with tooled block-and-start quoins to rear and side elevations. Round-headed windows to first floor of side blocks and square-headed elsewhere, with timber sliding sash windows. Tripartite nine-over-nine pane to round-headed windows with spoked fanlights, nine-over-nine pane to first floor of front and side elevations of front block, and to all of rear block except easternmost rear bay which has six-over-six pane windows. All other windows are six-over-six pane except for intermediate rear block which has four-over-four pane windows. Front first floor windows have carved architraves, round-headed windows have tooled ashlar block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, ashlar block-and-start surrounds elsewhere. Front elevation has square-headed door openings with automatic glass door unit, with contemporary steel doors to outer bays. Round-arch door openings to side elevations with ashlar surrounds, timber panelled doors and spoked timber fanlights. Front elevation flanked to east and west by half-hexagonal arch vehicular entrances,each having rusticated ashlar walls and voussoirs, battened timber double-leaf door, moulded cornice and parapet. Building served by plinth of ten steps fronting directly onto paved forecourt to Church Square. Courtyard to rear with squared, coursed sandstone boundary wall. Recent metal monument to victims of car bomb blast of May 1974 to front of building.

• House, outbuilding, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay three-storey house with attic, built c.1870, with recent timber shopfront to ground floor, five-bay north side elevation (two rear bays behind addition), integral carriage arch to south end of front elevation accessing return wings to rear forming enclosed courtyard. Hipped replacement slate roof with gable-ended pitch to east, square-headed roof lights, projecting brick eaves course, smooth rendered chimneystacks, and replacement rainwater goods. Brick Flemish bond walling to north and west elevations, with portion of dressed stone to ground floor of front elevation and uncoursed rubble masonry to rear bays of ground floor of north elevation, and with roughcast render to east and south elevations. Square-headed window openings, brick voussoirs and stone sills with replacement uPVC windows. Shopfront comprising central doorway accessing upper floors, with timber panelled door and overlight having decorative detail to corners, flanked by shopfront to south having square-headed glazed timber door flanked by timber display windows, and with square-headed carriage-arch with sliding double-leaf timber battened doors. Rear wing returns comprise two-storey blocks with pitched corrugated iron roof to east and pitched slate roof to west, and lean-to corrugated iron roof to south. Random rubble walling and painted brick to east elevation, painted coursed rubble masonry to east and south elevations. Square headed window openings, smooth rendered surrounds to east elevation, stone sills, and replacement uPVC windows, square-headed timber casement windows to south elevation. Segmental-headed carriage-arch to east and south elevation with square-headed timber battened doors, stone steps accessing square-headed door opening to first floor to east elevation, iron steps accessing square-headed door opening with dormer pitch and timber panelled door to first floor of west elevation. Timber-built café erected within courtyard. Set within grounds shared by Saint Patrick’s Church of Ireland fronting onto south-east side of Church Square, bounded by battered coursed random rubble walling to east, south and west with carriage arch to east linking with courthouse.

• Saint Patrick's Church (Monaghan), church/chapel, 1830–1840 · National interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival stone-built Church of Ireland church, built 1831–6 to designs by diocesan architect William Farrell of Dublin. Cruciform plan comprising six-bay nave, diminished single-bay narthex to west, chancel to east having single-bay vestries to each internal angle, and three-stage tower with spire. Pitched slate roof, roll-top blue/black ridge tiles, stone verges and octagonal-plan chimneystack to east nave gable, crenellated parapet to nave and vestries, continued to nave west gable, chancel gable, and narthex as carved quatrefoils with pierced spandrels, blind to gable inclination. Concealed gutters with exposed cast-iron hopper head and downpipe. Needle spire on octagonal plan atop tower, four stages of open lucarnes (that to top being blind), slight offsetting to base, no parapet. Ashlar sandstone walling over torus-moulded battered plinth (containing chamfered wrought-iron grilled square vents) with moulded string course at parapet base interrupted by three-stage strip buttresses recessed to each stage by gablet rising to terminate in skewed gabled needle pinnacles, diagonal buttresses all corners. Tower has moulded string courses between stages, that above second stage angled with carved crocket finial over clock faces (inserted 1902) to south and west elevations, timber blocked to north elevation, first stage south elevation has lugged blank shield supporting niched bishop's mitre delicately carved-in-the-round. Pointed-arch timber diagonally glazed lancets, splayed flush surrounds and sill throughout, carved foliated label-ended hood-mouldings to nave (also to tower first stage south elevation with stained-glass casement, blind to north elevation, and louvred to third stage tower), three four-centred-arch trefoil-headed lights with quatrefoil over with stop-ended hood-mouldings to chancel and diminished timber lights to tower second stage south elevation, square-headed timber tripartite trefoil-headed lights to second stage cheeks. Pointed-arch bolection-moulded stained and varnished timber doors, splayed surrounds with carved label-ended hood-mouldings and stepped thresholds to north and south elevations of vestries, double-leaf to tower first stage south elevation and narthex south and north elevations. Modern mild steel handrail to tower entrance with Zulu shield (Ishlangu)-like motifs. Interior has rib-vaulted smooth rendered ceiling borne on clustered marble columns interrupted by galleries with carved timber fronts over side aisles. Balconies accessed by cut limestone spiral stairways with iron railings having timber rails. Elaborately carved marble pulpit with marble steps, lectern and altar rails, marble baptismal font to west end. Variety of marble wall monuments and some brass memorials to nave, galleries and chancel. Set back from Church Square to west and The Diamond to north-east in lawned churchyard with flattened nineteenth-century gravestones, and with ornate cast-iron failings on cut-stone plinth with gates hinged to carved and splayed piers with pyramidal caps to south, south-west and north-west. Substantial crypt in graveyard to south marked by stone coping, vents and raised lawned features with fine wrought-iron railings and gate (accessing crypt) to west coping between Adamesque cast-iron railing posts.

• Shop/retail outlet, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace four bay three-storey house-over-shop, built c.1820, with late twentieth-century shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with roughcast rendered chimneystack, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walls with channelled quoins, and having orange tiled walls to shopfront. Square-headed window openings with keystone detail, six-over-six pane horned timber sash windows, and painted sills.

• Shop/retail outlet, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three bay three-storey house-over shop, built c.1820, with shopfront of c.2000 to ground floor having deeply recessed entrance. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks having cogging string course, and replacement rainwater goods. Squared, coursed rubble limestone walls, with marble-effect cladding to shopfront, with projecting clock to first floor. Square-headed window openings with dressed tooled limestone voussoirs, horned timber sash windows three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane to first floor, with dressed stone sills.

• Monaghan Town Hall, bank/financial institution, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace seven bay two-storey former bank of c.1880, altered c.1930 to town hall, with shallow pedimented breakfront framing central bays. Pitched roof concealed by parapet with moulded corniced coping with console brackets to margins, moulded scooping and surround to pediment. Smooth-rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth-rendered channelled walls, with smooth-rendered pilasters to breakfront, and with stepped string course at eaves level. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows to first floor, cast-iron margined casement windows to ground floor, round-headed window opening to centre of pediment with moulded architrave and Napoleon-hat surround with multiple-pane timber casement window. Square-headed door opening with marble doorcase and double-leaf timber panelled door. Square-headed door opening to south-east bay with timber panelled door and overlight.

• Shop/retail outlet, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house-over-shop, built c.1810, with shopfront and integral carriageway to ground floor. Pitched slate roof not visible from street, with smooth-rendered chimneystacks, and replacement rainwater goods. Smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walls with block-and-start quoins to upper floors. Plaque to front wall inscribed 'Charles Gavan Duffy was born here 12th April 1816'. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows and painted sills. Shopfront has timber fasciaboard with console brackets, timber-framed display window and glazed door. Carriage-arch has depressed-arch opening and recent metal gate.

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house-over-public-house, built c.1840, with pub front to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with recently rebuilt brick chimneystack, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick Flemish bond walls, painted to ground floor, and smooth-rendered projecting plinth. Random rubble walls to gables with squared quoin stones. Square-headed window openings with patent margin surrounds, red brick voussoirs, six-over-six pane horned timber sliding sash windows, and painted sills. Pub front has tripartite timber-framed display window with decorative vent piercing to heads, and simple bracketed fascia. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door with divided overlight.

• First Monaghan Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1825–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Gothic Revival Presbyterian church, facing east, built 1827 on site of earlier building of 1745, and rebuilt 1899-1902 by Bright Brothers of Portadown, being two-storey with access to church proper via stone steps, having four-bay nave, front bay of south elevation projects to south, and with four-stage tower to east end bay of north elevation to partly match. Renovated 1911 by Thomas McElnea of Monaghan to designs by Roome & Boag of Belfast. Part of two-storey meetinghouse of 1827 retained at west end of building, with lean-to extensions under construction 2010. Pitched natural slate roof (pyramidal to tower with wrought-iron finial), angled blue/black terracotta ridge tiles, moulded stone verges to east gable, moulded cast-iron gutters on sandstone corbels, brick chimneystacks to west gables (rendered to church), crocketed finial to east gable. Nap-rendered with sandstone quoins to west gable and former meetinghouse projection; elsewhere rock-faced squared-and-snecked limestone walling with cut sandstone dressings, splayed plinth, moulded string-course to east gable eaves level, platband to fourth stage tower, buttresses with offsetting and sandstone quoins between bays, except east gable centre bay, which has south buttress raised to support conical pinnacle on spurred octagonal base; cast-iron pattress plates above basement level. Windows have leaded church glass with flush splayed sandstone surrounds and sills, pointed-arch lancets to upper level and shoulder-headed to lower level, tripartite to side elevations, stop-ended hood-mouldings to east gable. West gable has paired trefoil-headed lancets with elongated quatrefoil spandrel flanking plate tracery rose window with square-headed louvred aperture to apex. East gable has hexafoil rose window set in pointed-arch recess with chamfered surrounds, flush sill with offsetting, carved spandrels (with thistle, rose, and shamrock) with hood continuous with interrupted string-course; quatrefoil to third stages of tower, louvred trefoil to gable apex. Former meetinghouse projection has pointed-arch diminutive painted timber Y-tracery bipartite seven-over-six pane sashes (that to lower floor replaced with uPVC), dressed surround with Gibbs blocking and sill. East gable has shoulder-headed varnished vertically sheeted double-leaf door with wrought-iron strapwork, set in pointed-arch deeply rebated roll-moulded sandstone gabled surround with dressed spandrels and tympanum inscribed with roundel date plaque '1901', flanked by trefoil-headed windows having chamfered surrounds and stained glass, accessed by stone perron vaulted over basement channel to roadside pavement. Pointed-arch painted timber sheeted door offset to west gable (created out of window opening) with Y-tracery upper sash window overlight, Gibbs-blocked surrounds. Set back from Dublin Street to east by wrought- and cast-iron gates and railings hinged to ornate pyramidal capped and finialled chamfered cast-iron piers with foundry mark of 'RIDDEL CO. BELFAST'. Situated on sloping site rising to east with roadside pavement at upper floor level. Surrounding graveyard has many fine grave markers, and vault of 1816-17 to McMorran family. Interior entered via small entrance hall with polychrome tile floor. Gallery to north-east side. Stained timber pews with side aisles. Timber trussed roof with braces on carved stone brackets. Stained timber pulpit, baptismal font, table and organ to south-west end of nave. Various marble plaques to walls.

• Dawson Monument, obelisk, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding granite Classical-style ashlar sandstone obelisk, designed 1857 by W.J. Barre. Supported on elaborate plinth with base of five steps, widely projecting cornice having pediments to each face, stylised anthemia to corners, and square headed architraves to each face. Memorial plaque to east face. Stele on east face inscribed 'Alma' and 'Inkerman'. Memorial plaque reads 'Erected by the Inhabitants of the County of Monaghan in memory of Lieutenant Colonel The Honorable Thos. Vesey Dawson, Coldstream Guards, who fell in the Battle of Inkerman, November 5th 1854. His remains lie on a foreign shore, but the brave and the good, [...] hearts of their countrymen, as this obelisk, Will testify to posterity'. Prominently sited in Church Square.

• House, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited restaurant, built c.1870, comprising six-bay two-storey block with dormer attic and projecting three-bay three-storey block to south, with shopfronts to ground floor. North block curves around corner. Hipped artificial slate roof to northern block, with projecting eaves, red brick chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roof to south hidden by parapet. Flat felt roofs to dormers. Smooth rendered lined-and-ruled walling, with chamfer to north corner of ground floor of south block. Tie-plate to first floor of north block. Curved corner of north block has segmental-headed doorway and flanking plate-glass display window openings with brick surrounds and sills, square-headed openings with stone sills elsewhere to both blocks. Timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows to top floor of south block, and timber casements elsewhere. Timber shopfront fasciaboards to north block with cornice

• The Manse, manse, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1870, with breakfront to middle bay, two-bay side elevation, and four-bay rear elevation with single-storey return and outbuilding to north end. Pitched slate roof, with rooflights to rear, projecting eaves, timber cornice and bargeboards, smooth rendered ruled-and-lined chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling to front (west) elevation and south gable. Front and south elevations have continuous string course between floors, and plinth course. Smooth rendered walling to rear and to north gable. Square-headed window openings with slightly projecting rendered keystones, and having stone sills and replacement timber windows. Round-headed opening to first floor of breakfront. Round-headed doorway with slightly projecting smooth rendered architrave and with keystone having moulded top immediately underlying string course, plinth blocks, fanlight and timber panelled door. Bounded to front by smooth rendered plinth walling surmounted by decorative cast-iron railings with acorn finials next to entrance. Dressed stone gate piers to vehicular entrance to south with pyramidal caps and double-leaf wrought-iron gate. Four-bay outbuilding to rear with lean-to corrugated-iron roof, roughcast rendered walls and square-headed openings.

• Monaghan Methodist Church, church/chapel, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Gothic Methodist church, built 1861, with basement, facing west, and having five-bay nave, forward bay of each side elevation abutted by gabled porch. Pitched slate roof, angled blue/black terracotta ridge tiles, replacement metal half-round gutters to projecting eaves, stone verges with kneelers, octagonal-plan finial to east gable. Slightly projecting gabled dressed stone bellcote to gable-front with block finial, supported on corbel to each side with pointed arch feature above. Coursed sandstone rubble walling with squared-and-tooled quoins to east gable, elsewhere having squared-and-snecked sandstone walling, and with splayed plinth above basement. Diagonal buttresses with offsetting and gablet caps to gable-front and to porch corners. Pointed-arch timber Y-tracery casements to long walls with stained-glass margins, splayed flush surrounds and sills over breeze block-blocked square-headed basement windows. Gable-front lit by pointed-arch geometric-traceried diagonally glazed three-light window surmounted by quatrefoils with flush splayed surround and sill, and having stop-ended hood-moulding. East gable has two pointed-arch casement-framed lancets surmounted by stained-glass oculus with circular vent to apex. Porches lit by single stained-glass oculus to side gable. Four-centre-arch varnished timber panelled door with central fillet. Set back from Dawson Street pavement to west by bitmac forecourt and cast-iron railing and gates on cut-stone plinth and square piers. Date plaque from earlier church retained and incorporated in plinth wall inscribed 'PRIMITIVE WESLEYAN METHODIST PREACHING HOUSE A.D. 1824'. Situated in tight plot with overgrown boundary to rear (east) overlooking car park behind Monaghan Courthouse, private house to north, and former manse built c.1850 to south. Interior has side aisles, with no obvious change between nave and chancel areas. Timber arched trusses supported on hanging posts borne on carved stone capitals. Dark stained timber pews, pine wainscoting and carpeted floors. Dark stained carved timber pulpit and rail to centre of east end.

• The Assembly Rooms, assembly rooms, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey assembly rooms, built c.1900, with gabled breakfront to middle two bays, and gable-ended entrance porches set back from side elevations. Now disused. Pitched slate roof, with terracotta ridge tiles to gable porches, projecting eaves, decoratively carved timber bargeboards, smooth rendered chimneystacks, and replacement rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walling with two string courses between floors, and plinth course. Square-headed window openings, having render hood-mouldings to ground floor, with chamfered head and reveals, stone sills, and timber casement windows. Porches have square-headed door opening with chamfered head and reveals, overlights and double-leaf timber panelled doors. Set within own grounds, bounded by random rubble walling with smooth rendered coping, roughly dressed piers with pyramidal caps and double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate.

• Asylum Bridge, bridge, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Limestone railway bridge, built c.1865, underside now filled in to level of base of parapets. Segmental arch having rock-faced voussoirs, rock-faced spandrels, chamfered cut-stone spandrels, broken coursed squared rubble parapet walls with chamfered heavy punch-dressed copings. Square-plan pilasters either side of arch opening and to east and west ends of parapet walls. Carries access road to Saint Davnet's Hospital from the Monaghan to Derry Road.

• House, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay four-storey house, built c.1830, in use as shop. Pitched slate roof with rendered eaves course, rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined and ruled rendered walls to upper floors, and with render shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and timber sliding sash windows, six-over six pane to middle floors and three-over-three pane to top floor. Shopfront comprises fluted pilasters with simple bases and capitals framing square-headed fixed display windows and central glazed door.

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Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2332 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Roosky with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Roosky · Rúscaigh

Area

610,162 m² (61.02 ha, 150.77 acres)

Civil parish

Monaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Monaghan Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Monaghan Urban electoral division: 2,285 people in 948 households; 36% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annahagh, Coolshannagh, Kilnacloy, Mullaghmonaghan, Tirkeenan, Tullyhirm

Placenames

Roosky on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.