CARRICKMACROSS

carrickmacross, a market town of co. monaghan, ireland, in the south parliamentary division, 68 m. n.w. of dublin on a branch of the great northern railway. pop. of urban district (1901) 1874. it has a pleasant, elevated site, a considerable agricultural trade, and a famous manufacture of lace, which is carried on in various conventual establishments. there are some remains of an elizabethan castle, a seat of the earls of essex, which was destroyed during the wars of 1641; the ruins of the old church of st finbar commemorate the same disastrous period.