Monaghan Genealogy Tours
My Ireland Heritage find your Ancestors and exact house location from the 1700’s to the late 1800’s, and all available records in Ireland. We are an Irish family business dedicated to assisting you in your Irish Genealogy research for your roots and records of your family history of past generations in Monaghan, as well as providing you with a once in a lifetime Irish Genealogy tour experience to visit your families original family house and Walk in the Footsteps of your Irish Ancestors.
Sean and the Team at My Ireland Heritage are a Government certified & approved Genealogy & Touring Company, and will personally guide you on the journey into your Irish ancestry to any County in Ireland.
Many companies are genealogy research only, many companies are touring companies only, we at My Ireland Family Heritage are proud to be able to encompass your research and tour together enabling us to work with you throughout the process to customize your tour with you and for you. To achieve a full genealogy tour experience consider adding one of our one-day historical tours.
Our Tours
Our Ancestral Townland Experience Tours
County Monaghan’s landscape of small drumlin hills and scattered lakes shaped a county of small farms and tightly bound rural parishes, not unlike neighbouring Cavan. It’s a border county with a mixed religious and political history, home to significant Catholic, Presbyterian and Church of Ireland communities whose records each survive separately and, in places, unevenly.
Monaghan’s farming communities were often small-scale, working modest plots across the drumlin landscape, and emigration thinned many rural parishes considerably from the Famine period onward. For research, this means identifying the correct denomination and specific church congregation for your family is an essential first step, since Monaghan’s civil parishes frequently served multiple churches of different traditions. We work through whichever records survive, cross-referencing gravestones and local family knowledge, before confirming the townland itself.
A Monaghan tour brings you through quiet, rolling countryside dotted with small lakes, through towns like Clones and Monaghan town, and out to your family’s specific townland. County Monaghan doesn’t draw the crowds of Ireland’s better-known tourist counties, which for many descendants is exactly the appeal, a genuinely personal, unhurried visit to a rural landscape still shaped by the same small farms your ancestors worked.
- Monaghan has 4 Baronies
- Monaghan has 24 Civil Parishes
- Monaghan has 70 Electoral Divisions
- Monaghan has 1846 Townlands
- Monaghan has 131 Sub townlands
County Monaghan is part of the Border Region and is in the province of Ulster. It is named after the town of Monaghan. The population of the county is 60,483 according to the 2011 census. The county has existed since 1585, when the Mac Mathghamhna rulers of Airgíalla agreed to join the Kingdom of Ireland. Following the Irish War of Independence and the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Monaghan was one of three Ulster counties to join the Irish Free State rather than Northern Ireland.
Family Dynasties 1500-1600 AD
- Irish – McMahon
- Norman – None
- Scottish – None
- Viking – None
County Monaghan – Things to do and may be possible to include within your Ancestral Townland Experience Tour
- Irelands Ancient east
- Monaghan County Museum
- Mullaghmore Equestrian Centre Limited
- Lough Muckno Leisure Park
- St McCartans cathedral
- St. Peter’s Church
- Rossmore Golf Club
- Sliabh Beagh Mountains
- Castle Leslie
Frequently Asked Questions
Was Monaghan mostly Catholic, or were there significant Protestant communities too?
Monaghan has meaningful Catholic, Presbyterian and Church of Ireland communities, and identifying which your family belonged to is an important early step in research.
Are Monaghan's rural parishes well documented?
Coverage varies by parish and denomination, but between church registers, gravestones and Griffith’s Valuation, we’re generally able to build a reliable picture of a family’s location.
Can a Monaghan tour be combined with Cavan given their similar landscape?
Yes, the two counties border each other and share a similar drumlin landscape, and we can build a combined itinerary where family connections span both.
