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Encyclopedia Britannica



CLONES

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 555 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
CLONES , a market town of Co. Monaghan, Ireland, in the north parliamentary division, 641 in. S.W. by W. from Belfast, and 931 in. N.W. from Dublin by the
Great
  Northern railway, on which system it is an important junction, the lines from Dublin, from Belfast, from Londonderry and Enniskillen, and from Cavan converging here. Pop. of urban
district
  (1901), 2968. The town has a considerable argicultural trade, and there are corn mills and manufactures of agricultural implements. A former lace-making industry is
extinct
 . The market-place, called the Diamond, occupies the summit of the slight
elevation
  on which the town is situated. Clones was the seat of an abbey founded in the 6th century by St Tighernach (Tierney), to whom the
Protestant
  parish church is dedicated. Remains of the abbey include a
nave
  and tower of the 12th century, and a curious shrine formed out of a
great
 
block
  of red
sandstone
 . Other antiquities are a round tower of rude masonry, 75 ft. high but lacking the cap; a
rath
 , or encampment, and an ancient market
cross
  in the Diamond.


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