Tag: County Louth

  • January 18, 2021
      This monastery is just nine miles from Drogheda. It is definitely worth visiting on any tours of Ireland.  …
  • July 2, 2019
    Louth is the smallest of the Irish counties and lies between the Boyne Estuary and Carlingford Lough. It was always…
  • April 24, 2019
    Narrow Water Castle is at the bottle neck of the Newry canal which runs into Carlingford Lough. It was built…
  • March 16, 2019
    This is a bustling town and a busy port. It began as a community around a ford which was where…
  • January 23, 2019
    Louth is the smallest of Irelands 32 counties. It covers a short stretch of coast between Drogheda and Dundalk that…
  • October 18, 2015
      Louth, the smallest of the Irish counties, lying between the Boyne Estuary and Carlingford Lough, bulks largely in Irish…
  • September 30, 2015
      Around AD440 St Patrick, patron saint of Ireland settled in this valley, where the rushing sound of the Bonet’s…
  • January 13, 2015
    Drogehda, County Louth This close packed town, with its old buildings clustered in 13th century streets, retains a medieval feel.…
  • July 2, 2014
    This former monastery is one of Ireland’s best-known and oldest religious sites, with the ruins of two churches, a Round…
  • April 9, 2014
    This was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Dal Riada, and is thought to have been one of the…