Doohamlet ( ; ), is a village and

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Castleblayney Castleblayney (; ) is a town in County Monaghan, Ireland. The town had a population of 3,926 as of the 2022 census. Castleblayney is near the border with County Armagh in Northern Ireland, and lies on the N2 road from Dublin to Derry and L ...

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Ballybay Ballybay () is a town and civil parish in County Monaghan, Ireland. The town is centred on the crossroads of the R183 and R162 roads. Geography The town is the meeting point for roads going to Monaghan, Castleblayney, Carrickmacross and ...

road in

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. It is part of a wider parish of Clontibret in the diocese of

Clogher Clogher (; , ) is a village and civil parish in the border area of south County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It lies on the River Blackwater, 5.8 miles from the border crossing to County Monaghan. It stands on the townlands of Clogher Demesne ...

. Doohamlet village is located approximately three miles from the N2 Dublin-Derry route on the R183 road. The wider district comprises around thirty townlands. Doohamlet has its own

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club, founded in 1906, and

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grounds opened in 1984. It also has a church dedicated to The Blessed Virgin and All Saints, opened in May 1861 and completed in 1882. The church was sometimes referred to as the 'Bog Chapel' due it being on the site of a penal day Mass hut or ''bothog'', the last known such Mass site in the Catholic diocese of Clogher. The adjoining cemetery dates from the 1920s. There is a

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called All Saints National School, opened on its present site in 1994. A Childcare facility is also adjoining the school. There are three housing estates in the village: Cois Cill, Cois Carraig and Cois Locha, these date from the 2000s. Doohamlet was the birthplace of

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, member of Dáil Éireann for the constituency of Monaghan 1923-1927. He was a Cumann na nGaedheal TD.

Transport

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route 162 serves Doohamlet on schooldays linking it to

Newbliss Newbliss (), historically known as Lisdaragh (), is a village and townland in County Monaghan, Ireland. The village is 15 km south-west of Monaghan town where the R183 and R189 roads intersect. Transport The village is served by Local ...

, Clones and

Monaghan Monaghan ( ; ) is the county town of County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It also provides the name of its Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish and Monaghan (barony), Monaghan barony. The population of the town as of the 2022 cen ...

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