The village is located close to Dartrey Forest on the R188 (which links Cootehill to Monaghan town).

On the main front the central bay breaks forward slightly and is topped by a pediment.

[citation needed] According to the Introduction to the Dartrey Papers (published by Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast),[3] part of the Fairfield Estate, the Corry family's country estate that included Rockcorry, was bought in 1831 for Richard Dawson, 1st Earl of Dartrey (1817–1897), the young head of the Dawson family of neighbouring Dartrey.

Most of the rest of the Fairfield Estate was later bought in 1840 by the young Lord Cremorne (later created Earl of Dartrey in 1866).

Richard 'honest Dick' Dawson voted against the Act of Union and was suspected of radical sympathies during the period of the United Irishmen.