Carrickmacross

Carrickmacross is a metropolis in County Monaghan, Ireland. The town and environs had a population of 5,032 in step with the 2016 census, making it the second one largest town inside the county. The metropolis gained the European Entente Florale Silver Medal Award. It is a market metropolis which advanced around a Castle constructed through the Earl of Essex in 1630. The Convent of St Louis stands at the authentic castle website. The neighborhood Gaelic football and hurling membership is Carrickmacross Emmets.The nearby football crew is Carrick Rovers.

Carrickmacross is thought for the lace bearing its name. Carrickmacross lace is labored in an character style, devised by means of Mrs Grey Porter, wife of the rector of Donaghmoyne, who brought it in 1820. When she left the district the coaching of Carrickmacross lacemaking was persevered via Miss Reid of Rahans, but it became simplest after the 1846 potato famine, when a lace college was installation by the managers of the Bath and Shirley estates at Carrickmacross as a way of supporting their starving tenants, that the lace became known and discovered income.