Water softeners in Co. Monaghan. Supplied and fitted.

How hard is the water across Monaghan?

It depends which supply you're on. Monaghan town is pumped from boreholes and treated at the Crosses plant, and Carrickmacross runs on its own wellfield, treated at Nafferty. Both are groundwater, and our estimate for both is around 250 mg/L of calcium carbonate, which is hard. The Crosses plant also feeds Scotstown and Ballinode, where hard water has been raised at council level for years.

Castleblayney, Ballybay, Rockcorry and Clontibret are on the Lough Egish regional supply, which is lake water treated at Kilkitt. Lake water in this part of the country picks up far less calcium, so it's much softer, and many homes on it won't need a softener at all.

Monaghan towns we cover

Each of these has its own page with the local supply:

• Water softeners in Monaghan town, around 250 mg/L, also covering Scotstown, Ballinode and Emyvale
• Water softeners in Carrickmacross, around 250 mg/L, also covering Inniskeen and Donaghmoyne

We also fit in Clones, Castleblayney, Ballybay, Glaslough, Smithborough, Rockcorry and anywhere else in the county.

On Lough Egish water? Check before you buy

If you're in Castleblayney or Ballybay, put your Eircode into the checker at the top of the page before spending money. If limescale isn't your problem, an under-sink drinking water filter for taste and chlorine is usually the better buy, and we'll tell you so. See our drinking water systems.

Private wells and group schemes in Monaghan

A lot of rural Monaghan is on a group water scheme or its own well. Well water here varies from one townland to the next: some is hard, some carries iron and manganese, and some has both. A softener only deals with hardness, so for a well we send a sample to an accredited lab and specify the system off the results. See our well water treatment page.

Getting it fitted in Monaghan

Every install is done by our own plumbers, not a subcontractor. Carrickmacross is about an hour and a quarter from our Dublin base and Monaghan town is under two hours. Order the softener fitted online or ring us, send a photo of your stop valve and the space beside it, and we book a morning or afternoon slot. Two to three hours and you have soft water, with the first salt in the tank. For a price first, use the quote form. Next door in Cavan the water is a different story; see our Co. Cavan page.