Scotstown
Sign in to saveScotstown () is a village in the townland of Bough () in north County Monaghan, Ireland. Scotstown is located in the parish of Tydavnet, along the Monaghan section of the River Blackwater, Scotstown being the village closest to the river's source. Scotstown is centred in the townland of Bough, but extends into Carrowhatta, Teraverty, Drumdesco and Stracrunnion townlands.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Scotstown is referenced by 71 other articles, and connects out to Sliabh Beagh, English language and Republic of Ireland.
It is catalogued under topics including Towns and villages in County Monaghan and Use Hiberno-English from November 2019.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Population
- 250
- Elevation
- 72
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- Scotstown Monaghan.jpg
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- Irish Grid Reference
- H608369
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- Scotstown, County Monaghan
- native label
- Baile an Scotaigh
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Scotstown () is a village in the townland of Bough () in north County Monaghan, Ireland. Scotstown is located in the parish of Tydavnet, along the Monaghan section of the River Blackwater, Scotstown being the village closest to the river's source. Scotstown is centred in the townland of Bough, but extends into Carrowhatta, Teraverty, Drumdesco and Stracrunnion townlands.
==Name== Several theories exist around the origin of the English Language name, either deriving from the fact that a lot of Scots were located there during the Plantation of Monaghan (County Monaghan not having been part of the Plantation of Ulster), or it may have been named after a local landowner, George Scott, in the 1660s. Older documents, including Thom's Irish Almanac of 1862, alternate between referencing the village as Scottstown and Scotstown.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scotstown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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