Emyvale
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Emyvale
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| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Ulster |
| County | County Monaghan |
| Barony | Truagh |
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Emyvale, known before the Plantation of Ulster as Scarnageeragh (Template:Langx, meaning 'shallow ford of the sheep'),[2] is a village and townland in the north of County Monaghan, Ireland. It is on the main Dublin to Derry and Letterkenny road, the N2, about 10 kilometres (6 mi) north of Monaghan and 8 km (5 mi) south of Aughnacloy. Its population is about 700.[1] The village is located in the Barony of Truagh.[3]
History
In 1959, a Bronze Age tomb was discovered which proved that there was a settlement at the site of the village more than 3,000 years ago. Unfortunately for historians, the urn and other artifacts found were inadvertently destroyed during excavation of the tomb.
The name Scairbh na gCaorach (the Irish language name for Emyvale) means 'shallow ford of the sheep',[2] referring to a low (and easily traversable) point in the Mountain Water river on which Emyvale is situated.
The name is thought to have come from the Uí Meith tribe, the village's first inhabitants. Scairbh na gCaorach was abbreviated to "Scarna" in the early part of the 19th Century (indeed a local hostelry bears this name), although this fell out of common usage and the village is now referred to by its English language name – Emyvale. In the 8th century, the McKenna Clan arrived and, by the 12th century, they had established an independent túath or kingdom in what is now North Monaghan which would last for the next 450 years.
In more recent times, Emyvale was immortalised by the renowned 19th-century Irish writer William Carleton as part of his Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry series, which included The Fair of Emyvale (a short story based upon Carleton's experiences of the north Monaghan landscape where he was educated as a young man at a 'hedge school' situated beside St Mary's chapel, Glennan, near Glaslough).
Notable people
- Tommy Bowe, Irish rugby player, television presenter[4]
- Thomas Taggart, American politician
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Census 2016 Sapmap Area: Settlements Emyvale". Central Statistics Office (Ireland). Retrieved 2 March 2018.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Scairbh na gCaorach/Emyvale". Placenames Database of Ireland. Government of Ireland - Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Dublin City University. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- ^ Townlands.ie: Barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan. https://www.townlands.ie/monaghan/trough/
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Weekender: Tommy Bowe goes home". Irish Independent. 8 May 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
See also
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