Editing Carrickmacross (section)

{{short description|Town in County Monaghan, Ireland}}
{{Use Hiberno-English|date=October 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}
{{Infobox settlement
|settlement_type         = Town
|name                    = Carrickmacross
|native_name             = {{lang|ga|Carraig Mhachaire Rois}}
|native_name_lang        = ga
|image_skyline           = Main Street Carrickmacross.jpg
|image_caption           = Main Street
|pushpin_map             = Ireland
|pushpin_label_position  = bottom
|pushpin_map_caption     = Location in Ireland
|coordinates             = {{coord|53.976|-6.719|dim:100000_region:IE|display=inline,title}}
|blank_name_sec1         = Irish Grid Reference
|blank_info_sec1         = {{iem4ibx|H837039}}
|subdivision_type        = Country
|subdivision_name        = Ireland
|subdivision_type1       = [[Provinces of Ireland|Province]]
|subdivision_name1       = [[Ulster]]
|subdivision_type2       = [[Counties of Ireland|County]]
|subdivision_name2       = [[County Monaghan]]
|unit_pref               = Metric
|elevation_m             = 44
|population_as_of        = [[2022 census of Ireland|2022]]
|population              = 5745
|population_footnotes    = <ref name=cso2022>{{cite web | title = Census Interactive Map – Towns: Carrickmacross | url = https://visual.cso.ie/?body=entity/ima/cop/2022&boundary=C04160V04929&guid=c984ac58-80a7-4651-8cb7-c1dbf1779ad8 | work = [[2022 census of Ireland|Census 2022]] | publisher = [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)|Central Statistics Office]] | access-date = 21 December 2024}}</ref>
| area_code_type         = [[Telephone numbers in the Republic of Ireland|Telephone area code]]
| area_code              = +353(0)42
| postal_code_type       = [[Eircode]] routing key
| postal_code            = A81
|website                 = {{URL|www.carrickmacross.ie}}
}}
{{Historical populations|state=collapsed|width=22.2em
|1821|1641
|1831|2979
|1841|1997
|1851|2529
|1861|2063
|1871|2017
|1881|2002
|1891|1779
|1901|1874
|1911|2064
|1926|1995
|1936|2095
|1946|2116
|1951|2045
|1956|2155
|1961|2108
|1966|2094
|1971|2475
|1981|3292
|1986|3465
|1991|3341
|1996|3617
|2002|3832
|2006|4387
|2011|4925
|2016|5032
|2022|5745
|footnote=<ref name=cso2022/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=E89260B0-0B12-41BD-8A8B-5F8BAB3C83B9 |publisher=[[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)|Central Statistics Office]] |work=Census 2016 |title=Sapmap Area - Settlements - Carrickmacross |date=2016 |access-date=12 January 2018 |archive-date=7 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207185829/http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=E89260B0-0B12-41BD-8A8B-5F8BAB3C83B9 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cso.ie/census |title=CSO: Census: Census Home Page |access-date=2012-07-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920090814/http://cso.ie/census |archive-date=20 September 2010}} and www.histpop.org. Post-1991 figures include environs of Carrickmacross. For a discussion on the accuracy of [[Great Famine (Ireland)|pre-famine]] census returns see [[J. J. Lee (historian)|J. J. Lee]] "On the accuracy of the pre-famine Irish censuses" in Irish Population, Economy and Society edited by JM Goldstrom and LA Clarkson (1982) p54, and also "New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700–1850" by Joel Mokyr and [[Cormac Ó Gráda]] in The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Nov. 1984), pp. 473–488.
</ref>}}

'''Carrickmacross''' ({{Irish place name|Carraig Mhachaire Rois|rock of the wooded plain}})<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.logainm.ie/39315.aspx | publisher = Irish Placenames Commission | website = logainm.ie | title = Carraig Mhachaire Rois / Carrickmacross | access-date = 18 February 2020 }}</ref> is a town in [[County Monaghan]], Ireland. The population was 5,745 at the [[2022 census of Ireland|2022 census]],<ref name=cso2022/> making it the second-largest town in the county. Carrickmacross is a market town which developed around a castle built by the [[Earl of Essex]] in 1630. The town is 20km west of [[Dundalk]] and 75km north-north-west of Dublin city centre and 106km south west of Belfast. Carrickmacross won the European [[Entente Florale]] Silver Medal Award in 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.carrickmacross.ie/carrickmacross-news/427-carrickmacross-30-years-as-a-tidy-town | website = carrickmacross.ie |publisher = Carrickmacross-Castleblayney Municipal District | title = Carrickmacross - 30 years as a tidy town | access-date = 18 February 2020 }}</ref>