A Second Visit to the Cahan’s:

Figure 1: The Cahan’s Meeting House’s unused Presbyterian pulpit. My fellow Ulsterman, Ignorant Amos, thought this picture hauntingly meaningful when discussing the decline of Christianity in Ireland. As pointed out in a previous post, the Cahan’s is now more of a Community Centre than a house of worship.

I attended another wonderful meeting in the Cahan’s Presbyterian meeting house in Stranooden, County Monaghan, in the Republic of Ireland. Monaghan, my home county, is part of the Province of Ulster, but not a part of Northern Ireland, which is sometimes, poetically, called “Ulster”. Again, the topic of Presbyterian decline came up.