Who Are We?

Our Group

We are a very active Scout Group based in Monaghan Town, Ireland. The Group was founded in 1944. Currently the Group comprises four sections, Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, and Ventures, supported by a team of dedicated Adult Volunteers. We are members of Scouting Ireland, based in Cavan/Monaghan Scout County.

Our Aim

The Aim of Scouting Ireland is to encourage the physical, intellectual, character, emotional, social, and spiritual development of young people so they may achieve their full potential and, as responsible citizens, to improve society.

The Scout Method

The Scout Method is how we achieve our Aim and the way we do Scouting, it is an educational framework unique to Scouting that consists of eight elements which work together as a system to provide young people with a rich and active learning environment.

Learning by Doing

Nature and the Outdoors

Personal Progression

Law and Promise

Service and Commitment

Small Group System

Symbolic Framework

Young People and Adults Working Together

Our History

Although the Group was in existence prior to 1944, the Monaghan Town Scout Group ‎was reformed in May 1944 by Seamus and Gerard Magill and has been in existence ‎continuously since then. ‎

The story goes:‎
Three uniformed boys wearing the orange and green neckerchiefs of the Cavan Troop ‎of Catholic Boy Scouts arrived in Monaghan Town on bicycles completing one of their ‎First-Class Tests, which required a journey of 30 miles. The month was April and the ‎year was 1944. It so happened that Gerard Magill and Philip Mac Dermott were very ‎interested onlookers as they had been previously discussing the possibility of ‎reforming the scouts in Monaghan town. ‎

And the rest, as they say is history! There was great excitement among the youth in ‎Monaghan when they heard that the scouts were being formed and at the first meeting ‎of the group in St Joseph’s Hall on the 4th May 1944 nearly 50 boys were present.‎

The first Scout hall was below St Joseph’s hall, and then it moved to the Hibernian hall ‎on the Broad road. After some years they had to move again to an old loft at the ‎Westenra. Due to these unsettlements and the need for a permanent location Bishop ‎O’Callaghan built the Scout troop the current hall in 1952 at Latlorcan. ‎

‎80 years later the Group is still operating from the Latlorcan Scout Den.‎