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Cluain Eois
The Monaghan side of the historic parish preserves an account of agricultural manufacture, scattered schooling and Presbyterian worship at Stonebridge.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cluain Eois · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clones · English · main form
Place & story
Making the tools of cultivation
Lewis’s 1837 account records a foundry at Stonebridge producing spades, ploughs and other agricultural implements. He dates its establishment to roughly a decade earlier. Flour mills at Annalore on the Finn formed another part of the parish’s economy. These enterprises connected cultivation with specialised manufacturing and processing, extending the working landscape beyond the shops and market of Clones town. [2]
Education across scattered settlements
The parish’s schools were dispersed among settlements and townlands. Lewis lists establishments at Smithsborough, Magherarney, Granshaw and several other places, supported through subscriptions. His account also records private and Sunday schools. These figures describe the historical parish across both Monaghan and Fermanagh, rather than a count confined to its Monaghan portion. The school network therefore followed a wider community than a single town or county division. [2]
A date plaque older than the building
Stonebridge Presbyterian Church stands at Gransha More in County Monaghan. The architectural inventory dates the surviving church to around 1830, on the site of an earlier building; its 1700 plaque refers to that predecessor. Inside, timber pews face a carved pulpit with brass lamp stands and a pointed-arched timber backdrop. These fittings give the otherwise restrained rural meeting house a distinctive interior. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clones. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clones, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Stone Bridge Presbyterian Church, Gransha More, record 41401220 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Stonebridge Presbyterian Church at Gransha More, County Monaghan, as photographed in October 2008 illustration: based on a Church at Stonebridge, Co. Monaghan by Kieran Campbell. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
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