Carrickmacross
Carrickmacross is a town in County Monaghan. With a population of 5032 in 2016, it's the county's second-largest town and is best-known for its lace-making. The name is from Irish Carraig Mhachaire Rois, "rock of the wooded plain".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,750 residents
- Description: town in County Monaghan, Ireland
- Also known as: “Magheross”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mannan Castle.
Mannan Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: Kieran Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mannan Castle is a motte-and-bailey and National Monument located in Donaghmoyne, Townland Tullynacross, on site of the Mannan Castle Golf Club, in County Monaghan, Ireland. Mannan Castle is situated 4 km north of Carrickmacross.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Magheracloone.
Magheracloone
Locality
Photo: Smccabe86, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Magheracloone is a locality, which is situated 6 km southwest of Carrickmacross.
Carrickmacross
- Categories: human settlement, city, and locality
- Location: County Monaghan, Ulster, Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.977° or 53° 58′ 37″ northLongitude
-6.7194° or 6° 43′ 10″ westPopulation
5,750Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE CASOpen location code
9C5MX7GJ+R6OpenStreetMap ID
node 4380804889OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Urdu—“Carrickmacross” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Carrickmacross”
- Basque: “Carrickmacross”
- Breton: “Carraig Mhacaire Rois”
- Breton: “Carraig Mhachaire Rois”
- Breton: “Carrickmacross”
- Bulgarian: “Карикмакрос”
- Catalan: “Carrickmacross”
- Cebuano: “Carrickmacross”
- Danish: “Carrickmacross”
- Dutch: “Carrickmacross”
- French: “Carrickmacross”
- German: “Carrickmacross”
- Hebrew: “קריקמקרוס”
- Indonesian: “Carraig Mhachaire Rois”
- Indonesian: “Carrickmacross”
- Irish: “Carraig Mhachaire Rois”
- Italian: “Carrickmacross”
- Japanese: “カリクマクロス”
- Japanese: “カリックマクロス”
- Lithuanian: “Karikmakrosas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Carrickmacross”
- Polish: “Carrickmacross”
- Russian: “Каррикмакросс”
- Serbian: “Карикмакрос”
- Slovak: “Carrickmacross”
- Slovenian: “Carrickmacross”
- Spanish: “Carrickmacross”
- Swedish: “Carraig Mhachaire Rois”
- Swedish: “Carrickmacross”
- Urdu: “کیرکمیکراس”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Carrickmacross”. Photo: Smccabe86, CC BY-SA 3.0.