1. Monalty House
This house was built around 1624, when three houses were built as
part of a leasing agreement. This house was occupied by Norman
Steele who was the agent for the Bath estate from 1785 to 1801. He
is buried in the nearby Church of Ireland graveyard surrounding the
Aghafad Church. There was a plan in 1927 to make it into a public
health facility, but this failed and was sold to a local farmer. It is still
used as a house to this day. It has a lake on accompanying group in
front of the house. It is a three story manor house which has over
eleven bedrooms. A new wing was added to the house after its
original construction, sometime in the 18th century. In a survey in
1735 Monalty House is described as “ a very good lime and
stonewall house and a small orchard”. The house was situated at the
end of a fine avenue of trees leading from the then main road
2. between Dundalk and Carrickmacross. These trees can be seen to
this day on the avenue.
