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Threemilehouse or Three Mile House (Irish: Teach na dTrí Mhíle)[1] is a village in County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland. It is roughly midway between Monaghan and Newbliss on the R189. The nearest village is Smithborough. It lies[2] mostly within the townlands of Cabragh, Drumguill and Kilnaclay in the parish of Kilmore & Drumsnat. Saint Mary's church and primary school on the hill overlook the village. Threemilehouse has one of the oldest graveyards in the country, Drumsnat, which dates to 600 AD. The Central Statistics Office's report for the 2006 census lists Cabragh as a settlement with a total population of 167.[3]
Threemilehouse
Teach na dTrí Mhíle | |
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Village | |
.jpg) St Mary church | |
  Threemilehouse Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 54°13′00″N 7°02′36″W / 54.216802°N 7.043467°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Ulster |
| County | County Monaghan |
| Population (2006) | |
• Total | 167 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
History
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There was once a monastery founded by St. Molua at nearby Drumsnat. Drumsnat (Drom Sneachta) means the ‘Ridge of Snow’ and, according to tradition, this hill was covered by a mid summer snowfall in answer to the saint’s prayers for a site for a church. The Church of Ireland cemetery also marks the last resting place of Emily and Mary Wilde, the half-sisters of Oscar Wilde, who died following a fire at the nearby Drumaconnor House in 1871 [4][5]
Sport
editThreemilehouse has a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) football club, Sean McDermotts,[6] who wear yellow and white.
References
edit- ^ "Teach na dTrí Mhíle/Three Mile House". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- ^ "ArcGIS Web Application".
- ^ "Table 5: Population of Towns ordered by County and size, 2002 and 2006" (PDF). 2006 Census Volume 1. Central Statistics Office. 2007. p. 57. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
- ^ Replay, A Parish History, Eamonn Mulligan and Fr. Brian McCluskey, November 1984
- ^ "The tragedy of Oscar Wilde's half-sisters".
- ^ "Sean McDermotts | Other".