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More Cairns, Drogheda, Ireland travel blog

More Cairns

A travel blog entry by uncle_davros

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... 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, Cashel, Slane and Drogheda, Ireland travel blog

Artwork and Shrunken Heads

A travel blog entry by jesshiggins

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... . 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 ...

Near Disaster, Drogheda, Ireland travel blog

Near Disaster

A travel blog entry by hadsrobinson

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... 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 ...

The journey begins, Drogheda, Ireland travel blog

The journey begins

A travel blog entry by joergenmaria

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Ancient Wonders, Drogheda, Ireland travel blog

Ancient Wonders

A travel blog entry by rovingwerners

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... 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, Drogheda, Ireland travel blog

Castles and Crosses

A travel blog entry by rovingwerners

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... then. 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 ...

Ho hum, Drogheda, Ireland travel blog

Ho hum

A travel blog entry by grantgholson

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, Drogheda, Ireland travel blog

St. Oliver Plunkett

A travel blog entry by sarahindenmark

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... 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 ...

Irland, Drogheda, Dublin & Enniscorthy, Ireland travel blog

Irland

A travel blog entry by micha-unterwegs

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In Drogheda hatte die Touristinfo Sonntags zu und der letzte Bus zu unserem Ziel war bereits um 12 Uhr mittags weg... Dafür waren wir Teil der Stadtmauer - die Leute waren total begeistert davon diese mit einer Menschenkette nachzustellen. Dublin: Sehr ...

Monasterboice, Mellifont Abbey and Newgrange, Drogheda, Ireland travel blog

Monasterboice, Mellifont Abbey and Newgrange

A travel blog entry by marcelo.heather

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... , Mellifont had one hundred monks and three hundred lay brothers. The Abbey became the model for other Cistercian abbeys built in Ireland, with its formal style of architecture imported from the abbeys of the same order in France; it was the main abbey in ...

Monasterboice, Newtown Monasterboice, Ireland travel blog

Monasterboice

A travel blog entry by nahury1

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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 ...

Newgrange and other neolithic sites, Drogheda, Ireland travel blog

Newgrange and other neolithic sites

A travel blog entry by chris.klaus

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bla, Drogheda, Ireland travel blog

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A travel blog entry by sebcity

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Newgrange, Drogheda, Ireland travel blog

Newgrange

A travel blog entry by eukaryx

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A lot of work for 17 minutes of light..., Drogheda, Ireland travel blog

A lot of work for 17 minutes of light...

A travel blog entry by jennsummer2011

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The sun was shining today!!  Whoever sent the warm weather--THANK YOU!  I hope you got some relief from the heat at home.  It was a lovely day for an excursion today.  An early rise and a bus ride later, I found myself at the ...

Ireland, Drogheda, Ireland travel blog

Ireland

A travel blog entry by domhnall

... 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. ...

Samba all night long..., Drogheda, Ireland travel blog

Samba all night long...

A travel blog entry by chris.klaus

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Leaving Dublin, I took off for Drogheda.  With my trusty GPS, I easily found the Lougher Farm B&B.  Keys in hand, I went into town to find the Drogheda Samba Festival 2010, which was going on that evening.  I found a parking spot on ...

...per andare verso Drogheda, Drogheda, Ireland travel blog

...per andare verso Drogheda

A travel blog entry by love4trip

... .. E nn poteva mancarci un giro al Dunnes Stores, centro commercaile di cui l'Irlanda e' piena, e fornitissimo di tutto!! Salutiamo Drogheda e ci dirigiamo a Dundalk verso il Crowne Plaza dove avevamo prenotato la prima notte.. L'hotel a 4* e' molto ...

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