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...
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...
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...
Steeped in history , Drogheda was originally two walled municipalities on either side of the Boyne. It became an important English town in the middle Ages. The squat turret-shaped building on a hill is Mill Mount , the motte of a Norman castle built in...
On your Ireland tours you may pass through Drogheda...
Along with Newgrange and Dowth , Knowth forms a great Neolithic cemetery on a ridge of hills north of the Boyne river, some miles upstream from Drogheda, County Louth. It dates from around 3000 B.C...