Monaghan, an inland Ulster county, Ireland, surrounded by Louth, Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Cavan, and Meath; is undulating, with many small lakes and streams; grows flax and manufactures linen, and has limestone and slate quarries. The chief towns are Clones (2), and the county-town Monaghan (3), which has a produce market.
Population (circa 1900) given as 82,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Monad * Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord