Drogheda, Ireland Travel Blogs

More Cairns
Aug 19, 2007 (67 photos)

... sleep, we dived in the car and headed of towards our next destination. The drive was great and the scenery was how I imagined Ireland to be. Green everywhere. Even the sun came out. Then we crossed the border, and even the island that some call Ireland ...

Artwork and Shrunken Heads
Aug 23, 2004 (14 photos)

... . No matter the meaning--the first sight of them is breathtaking. The only bus out of the area went to Drogheda, and here I am, on my last night in Ireland. It's a pretty dismal town, actually. I can't decide if the weather makes the town seem worse, ...

Near Disaster
Dec 22, 2005

... Its about an hour or so north of Dublin and its near this cool cool place called Newgrange (seems like sort of a stonehenge of Ireland) that Casey recommended to me. So I came in yesterday afternoon and got a hostel and just relaxed (I had a big night in ...

Ancient Wonders
Sep 27, 2009 (17 photos)

... while he checked out all that he could. While looking at my guidebook, I noticed that there is a pub called McHugh’s in Drogheda, and I asked John to take me there so I could get a picture. McHugh was my great-great-grandfather’s name, and it ...

Castles and Crosses
Sep 26, 2009 (19 photos)

... . Our next objective was to find our b&b. Here there are no addresses--just road and area. We wanted the North Road, Drogheda (DRAW-head-a), but could find no road signs. John pulled into a gas station to ask directions and came out smiling. He told me ...

Ho hum
Aug 18, 2006

So we've found our way back from the UK to Ireland, and are no parked in Drogheda for the night, a trafficky burgh touted by our Lonely Planet guide as, "stuck in a charmless limbo." Aparently there's a fair bit of history here, including a delightful ...

St. Oliver Plunkett
Oct 29, 2007 (20 photos)

... could get to our next destination, at least, and switch buses there.  Our next destination just so happened to be Drogheda where a church contains the relics of Sir Oliver Plunkett, who as archbishop stood against the rule of england for which he was ...

Monasterboice
Sep 20, 2009 (13 photos)

A monastic settlement has the ruins of a medieval monastery in a graveyard. There are a couple of High Crosses in the graveyard - The Muiredach High Cross is a 18 ft tall; the West Cross is also known as theTall Cross is 21 ft tall; the North Cross has an ...

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Newgrange
Jun 3, 2007

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Ireland
May 29, 2006

... but the travels have started. first stops in ireland, and first time travelling outside of dublin. may 25 went to knowth and newgrange (ireland's version of stonehenge... but not as cool) and may 26-27 out to galway and the burren region of co. clare. ...