Scotshouse () is a small agricultural village in the

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...

of Currin in

County Monaghan County Monaghan ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster and is part of Border Region, Border strategic planning area of the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town ...

, Ireland. It is roughly three miles east of where the counties of

Cavan Cavan ( ; ) is the county town of County Cavan in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The town lies in Ulster, near the border with County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. The town is bypassed by the main N3 road (Ireland), N3 road that links Dublin ( ...

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and Monaghan meet. Scotshouse is about from Clones, from

town and away from

Monaghan Monaghan ( ; ) is the county town of County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It also provides the name of its Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish and Monaghan (barony), Monaghan barony. The population of the town as of the 2022 cen ...

town. Scotshouse is in the

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of Aghnahola ().

Finn Bridge Finn Bridge, also known as Annaghmullin Bridge, is a bridge built in 1856 that connects County Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland to County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. It spans the Finn River (a tributary of the River Erne which is not to be ...

, a border crossing on the Finn River, is west of Scotshouse.

Churches

There are two churches in Scotshouse; St. Andrew's Church (

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) and the Church of the Immaculate Conception (

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). The former, St. Andrew's Church, celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2010. It contains a memorial stained glass window for those who died in the First World War and a memorial plaque to Ernest Waldron King, an assistant

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with the

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who died when the ''

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'' sank. The church and its graveyard are both protected regional structures (reference numbers 41401610 and 41401615, respectively). The Church of the Immaculate Conception, built in 1924, is a

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-fronted structure of Romanesque appearance. The church has a stained glass window and a carved plaque with a Celtic cross motif. It is a protected regional structure (reference numbers 41401608).

People

* Thomas Fitzpatrick (1918–2006), former chairman of the Dáil *

Hugh MacMahon Hugh MacMahon (1660–1737) was Bishop of Clogher 1707–1715 and Archbishop of Armagh 1715–1737. Born in 1660 in the townland of Cavany, Scotshouse, County Monaghan, Ireland, the son of Colla Dubh Mac Mahon of the Dartry branch of the clan a ...

(1660–1737),

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Éamonn Ó Ciardha Éamonn Ó Ciardha is an Irish historian and writer. Biography Ó Ciardha is a native of Scotshouse, a village in the Barony of Dartree in the west of County Monaghan. Townlands.ie: Barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan. https://www.townlands.ie/mo ...

, lecturer in

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in Magee Campus, Derry City *

Séamus P. Ó Mórdha Séamus P. Ó Mórdha (8 October 1915 – 12 February 2005) was an Irish teacher and historian. A native of Scotshouse in County Monaghan, and professor of Irish at St Patrick's College, Dublin, St. Patrick's College in Drumcondra, Dublin, fro ...

(1915–2005), professor of Irish in

St Patrick's College, Dublin St Patrick's College (), often known as St Pat's, was a third level institution in Ireland, the leading function of which was as the country's largest primary teacher training college, which had at one time up to 2,000 students. Founded in Drum ...

References

{{County Monaghan Towns and villages in County Monaghan

Churches

People

See also

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