Families of County Monaghan

Families of County Monaghan

• DuffyThe dark one, erenagh family of the Clogher diocese.

Historic ties to Monaghan

Families with historic but not core ground in this county.

• O'Neill
• Maguire
• Reilly
• Connolly
• O'Carroll
• Brady

Champions of County Monaghan

Famous bearers whose lives or work root in County Monaghan.

• Sir Charles Gavan DuffyThe Monaghan shoemaker's son who co-founded The Nation in Dublin in 1842, was tried five times for sedition and never convicted, served as Premier of Victoria, and became the figure of the Australian and Irish post-Famine diaspora.