Carrickmacross Lace GalleryThe appliqué lace has been made in this town since the 1820s, and the gallery is a working one.
Museum
Carrickmacross Workhouse
Carrickmacross, County Monaghan
What survives of the famine era workhouse on the edge of town was restored and is open to visitors.
Carrickmacross Workhouse, Co. Monaghan, was built in 1841, along with 130 others throughout Ireland, to house the poor; hence the Irish name of Teach na mBocht - The Poorhouse.
- Where
- Carrickmacross, County Monaghan
- Address
- Carrickmacross Workhouse, Shercock Rd, Drummond Etra
- Official site
- carrickmacrossworkhouse.com
- Map
- Directions · OpenStreetMap
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
Nearby
The closest places on our lists, in any county.
Carrickmacross Lace GalleryThe appliqué lace has been made in this town since the 1820s, and the gallery is a working one.
Dún a Rí Forest ParkMixed woodland along the Cabra river outside Kingscourt, with waterfalls, a wishing well and marked trails.
St Peter's Tin Church, LaraghCorrugated iron, at Laragh, and one of the few prefabricated tin churches left standing in the country.
Patrick Kavanagh CentreThe centre is in the old Inniskeen church in Patrick Kavanagh's home parish, on his life and the townlands he wrote about.
Inniskeen Round TowerTwelve metres of round tower stump in the village graveyard is all that is left of St Daig's monastery.
Lisnadarragh Wedge TombThe wedge tomb sits in farmland in the south of the county, chamber stones still in place.What’s on nearby
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More in Monaghan
Rossmore Forest ParkForest · MonaghanRossmore's old estate outside the town has colour coded trails, a lake and a family cycle route through it.
Clones Round Tower and High CrossMonastic site · ClonesSeventy-five feet of round tower and a carved ninth century cross stand in the centre of Clones, off the monastery St Tiernach founded.
Monaghan County MuseumMuseum · MonaghanThe county museum moved into the new Peace Campus on Plantation Road in 2024, and the Cross of Clogher is in its collection.
Lough Muckno Leisure ParkPark · CastleblayneyThe Blayney and Hope families, the landlords of Castleblayney, once held this estate on the shore of Lough Muckno. It is public parkland now, with forest and lakeside trails.
Dartrey ForestForest · RockcorryDawson's old estate between Cootehill and Rockcorry has lakes linked by the Dromore river and a famine wall along the road.- GlasloughVillage · Co. MonaghanStone houses beside the Castle Leslie demesne, with a heritage trail through the village.
- Emy LoughLake · EmyvaleEmy Lough sits just outside Emyvale, with a four kilometre looped walk around it.
Sliabh Beagh WayWalk · ScotstownThe route runs over the bog and heather of Sliabh Beagh, along the northern county boundary.