John Robinson was also Town Clerk as well as Hotel Keeper, he died 1918 age 85. The girls in the photo may be some of his daughters, Caroline, Josephine and Maud. His son Sir Thomas Robinson was a noted Pharmacutical Chemist in Dublin. Rev. Dr. Murray, Maynooth, writer and theologian, born Clones 1811, died 1882, writes that the origin of a subterranean passage connecting the Fort to the lower part of the Diamond is at the back of these premises and tells the story of a Piper who enters the passage playing martial airs and is never heard of again. The Royal Irish Constabulary barracks was used by An Garda Siochana until going to Annalore St. in April 1967. The two houses beside the "Monaghan Brae" are built on the site of the old "Commercial Hotel" which was gutted by fire on 2nd March 1903.
