Editing Monaghan (section)

===Transport===
The [[Ulster Canal]] through Monaghan linking the [[River Blackwater, Northern Ireland|River Blackwater]] at [[Moy, County Tyrone|Moy]] with the [[River Erne]] near [[Clones, County Monaghan|Clones]] was built between 1825 and 1842. By the time it was completed, competition in the form of the [[Ulster Railway]] from Belfast to Clones was already under construction.<ref name="Hajducki">{{cite book |last=Hajducki |first=S. Maxwell |year=1974 |title=A Railway Atlas of Ireland |location=Newton Abbot |publisher=[[David & Charles]] |isbn=0-7153-5167-2 |at=map 9}}</ref> The canal was never a commercial success and was formally abandoned in 1931.

The Ulster Railway linked Monaghan with {{rws|Armagh}} and [[Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station|Belfast]] in 1858 and with the [[Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway]] at Clones in 1863.<ref name=Hajducki/>{{rp|Map 8}} It became part of the [[Great Northern Railway (Ireland)|Great Northern Railway]] in 1876.<ref name=Hajducki/>{{rp|xiii}} The [[partition of Ireland]] in 1922 turned the boundary with [[County Armagh]] into an international frontier, after which trains were routinely delayed by customs inspections. In 1957 the [[Government of Northern Ireland]] made the GNR Board close the line between {{rws|Portadown}} and [[Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border|the border]], giving the GNRB no option but to withdraw passenger services between the border and Clones as well.<ref name=Hajducki/>{{rp|Map 39}} [[CIÉ]] took over the remaining section of line between Clones, Monaghan and [[Glaslough]] in 1958 but withdrew goods services between Monaghan and Glaslough in 1959 and between Clones and Monaghan in 1960, leaving Monaghan with no railway service.<ref name=Hajducki/>{{rp|Map 39}}