This monastery is just nine miles from Drogheda. It is definitely worth visiting on any tours of Ireland. The monastery was founded by Saint Bute, who died in 521 AD. It was destroyed by fire in 1097, and its precious library was lost. The building fell into utter ruin...
Louth is the smallest of the Irish counties and lies between the Boyne Estuary and Carlingford Lough. It was always border country and therefore debatable land. It guarded the Gap of the North. This was the pass that runs from the plains of Leinster into the hills of...
Narrow Water Castle is at the bottle neck of the Newry canal which runs into Carlingford Lough. It was built after the restoration of King Charles the second to protect the commercial town of Newry and its strategic hinterland of Down, Armagh, and Louth. Carlingford is a...
This is a bustling town and a busy port. It began as a community around a ford which was where St Marys bridge is today. The Vikings arrived in 911 AD and developed two settlements. There was one on each bank. These settlements were at war with each other...
Louth is the smallest of Irelands 32 counties. It covers a short stretch of coast between Drogheda and Dundalk that features a scattering of traditional seaside resorts. There are a few hidden gems in Louth that we offer our clients a chance to explore on their tours of Ireland. Our driver/guides are...
Louth, the smallest of the Irish counties, lying between the Boyne Estuary and Carlingford Lough, bulks largely in Irish history, for it was always a border country and debatable land. It guarded the Gap of the North, the pass that runs from the plains of...
Around AD440 St Patrick, patron saint of Ireland settled in this valley, where the rushing sound of the Bonet’s rapids and waterfalls fills the air. During the following 17 years he founded a Church, Monastery, and Nunnery, but little is left of the ancient ruins...
Drogehda, County Louth This close packed town, with its old buildings clustered in 13th century streets, retains a medieval feel. Two towns were founded on either side of the River Boyne by the Anglo-Norman Hugh de Lacy. In 1412 they were united by charter to become...
This former monastery is one of Ireland’s best-known and oldest religious sites, with the ruins of two churches, a Round Tower, a pre-Gothic sundial, a decorated grave slab and three High Crosses all packed into a cemetery. Founded in the 6th century by St Buite,...
This was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Dal Riada, and is thought to have been one of the three great ‘duns’, or royal forts, visited by St Patrick in the 5th century. It lay at the end of an ancient route from Dundalk...