Carrickmacross

Carrickmacross ( Irish: Carraig Mhachaire Rois; German as: " The rock in the wooded plain ") is a town in County Monaghan in the east of the Republic of Ireland.

The place

Carrickmacross is a small market town in the south of County Monaghan, near the county Louth and Cavan and the border with Northern Ireland, which is a 1630 by an Earl of Essex built, no longer preserved castle developed around. At the 2006 Census including the rural area 5,066 residents were counted, of which about 2,000 live in the town itself. There are three primary and three secondary schools in Carrickmacross. With Carhaix- Plouguer in Brittany is a town twinning.

Traffic

Carrickmacross is located about 18 km north-west of Ardee on the N2 national road from Dublin to Monaghan Town. Dundalk on the Irish east coast is removed in a straight line about 20 km. On the rail transport in Ireland, the place is no longer connected since 1960.