Clones

Clones is a small metropolis in western County Monaghan, Ireland. The region is part of the Border Region, earmarked for financial development by the Irish Government because of its currently under-average monetary situation. The city was badly hit economically through the partition of Ireland in 1921 due to its location on the border with County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. The creation of the Irish border deprived it of get admission to a massive a part of its monetary hinterland for decades.

The town had a population of 1,680 on the 2016 census. Clones have been the web page of a monastic agreement inside the kingdom of Dartraige Con-inns, based by means of Tigernach anglicised Tierney in the 6th century, until the dissolution of the monasteries via Henry VIII. St. Tigernach or Tierney's abbey, constructed inside the early 6th century was committed to St. Peter and St. Paul. Tigernach later have become Bishop of Clog her and removed that appear to Clones, where he died of the plague in 550. The abbot changed into the Primus Abbes, or first mitered abbot of Ireland.