Castleblayney
Sign in to saveCastleblayney (; ) is a town in County Monaghan, Ireland. The town had a population of 3,926 as of the 2022 census. Castleblayney is near the border with County Armagh in Northern Ireland, and lies on the N2 road from Dublin to Derry and Letterkenny.
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- Location in Ireland
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- Ireland
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- Ulster
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- Monaghan
Wikidata facts
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- human settlement
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Monaghan
- Elevation
- +104
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19 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- 17th and 18th centuries
- The 11th Baron Blayney
- Hope family and after
- Town bombing
- Council
- Facilities
- Transport
- Arts and culture
- Sport
- Education
- International relations
- Notable people
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Castleblayney (; ) is a town in County Monaghan, Ireland. The town had a population of 3,926 as of the 2022 census. Castleblayney is near the border with County Armagh in Northern Ireland, and lies on the N2 road from Dublin to Derry and Letterkenny.
==Geography== The town lies above the western shore of Lough Muckno, the largest lake in County Monaghan. The River Fane flows eastwards from the lake to the Irish Sea at Dundalk in County Louth. As the Irish name of the lake ('the place where pigs swim') suggests, the area is associated with the Black Pig's Dyke, also known locally in parts of Counties Cavan and Monaghan as the Worm Ditch, an ancient Iron Age boundary of Ulster.