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Discover Ireland's Rich Heritage! Free Guide Discover Ireland’s rich heritage! New Boyne Valley Drive Map Enclosed 14 Collon R132 KEY 15 01 Trim Heritage Town 13 02 Trim Castle 11 Drogheda 03 Bective Abbey N51 12 04 Hill of Tara 05 Skryne Church 10 06 Navan Town 16 07 Ardmulchan Church 17 18 Discover Ireland’s 08 Bru na Boinne – 08 Donore Newgrange & Knowth Slane 19 09 Duleek Abbey 20 rich heritage! 21 09 Duleek 10 Battle of the Boyne 22 07 11 Drogheda Heritage Town 12 Drogheda Museum, Millmount 06 Navan 13 Beaulieu House 14 Monasterboice 15 Old Mellifont Abbey 16 Townley Hall 23 R147 17 Dowth R147 18 Francis Ledwidge Museum 19 Slane Village 20 Hill of Slane 05 04 21 Slane Castle 25 24 Tara 22 Donaghmore Cemetery Kells 27 & Round Tower 03 23 Donaghpatrick 26 24 Kells Heritage Town R163 Oldcastle 28 Dunsany 25 Kells Monastic Site 26 Spire of Lloyd 29 Duleek Church 27 Patrickstown Viewing Point Ballinlough & Crosses 28 Oldcastle 29 Loughcrew R154 Kilskeer Killmessan R154 Belfast Athboy Boyne Valley 01 Region 02 Trim Dublin 2 FORFOR MOREMORE INFORMATIONINFORMATION GOGO TOTO WWW.BOYNEVALLEYDRIVE.IEWWW.BOYNEVALLEYDRIVE.IE Detailed map available at the back of the guideFOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO WWW.BOYNEVALLEYDRIVE.IE 1 Discover Ireland’s rich heritage! Map No. Page No. Introduction 04 Archaeological & Historical Timeline 06 01 Trim Heritage Town 08 02 Trim Castle 10 03 05 07 Bective Abbey, Skryne, Ardmulchan 12 04 Hill of Tara 14 06 Navan Town 16 08 Brú na Bóinne – Newgrange & Knowth 18 09 Duleek Abbey 21 10 Battle of the Boyne 22 11 Drogheda Town 24 St. Peter’s Church, Highlanes Gallery 26 12 Drogheda Museum, Millmount 28 13 Beaulieu House 30 14 Monasterboice 32 15 Old Mellifont Abbey 36 16 18 Townley Hall, Francis Ledwidge Museum 38 19 21 Slane Village & Slane Castle 40 20 17 Hill of Slane, Dowth 42 22 23 Donaghmore Round Tower, Donaghpatrick 44 24 25 Kells Town & Monastic Site 46 26 27 28 Spire of Lloyd, Patrickstown View, Oldcastle 48 29 Loughcrew Gardens & Cairns 50 Myths & Legends 52 Schematic map 58 Every care has been taken to ensure accuracy in the completion of this brochure. Fáilte Ireland cannot however, accept responsibility for errors or omissions but where such are brought to our attention, future publications will be amended accordingly. It is recommended that you pre-check the details of events/attractions listed before travelling.© Copyright Fáilte Ireland PRINTED IN IRELAND 22 FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO WWW.BOYNEVALLEYDRIVE.IE OR WWW.DISCOVERIRELAND.IE/BOYNEVALLEY FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO WWW.BOYNEVALLEYDRIVE.IE O R WWW.DISCOVERIRELAND.IE/BOYNEVALLEY 3 “So memorable in ancient history, and so rich in monuments of the past is it … that the history of Ireland might be written in tracing its banks.” William Wilde, The Beauties of the Boyne (1849) The Boyne Valley The Boyne Valley is situated in the east You can stand in awe at the gates of of continuous human settlement along vital for travel and trade. The River of Ireland. It is at once Ireland’s ancient Trim Castle, the largest Anglo-Norman the banks of the Boyne – stretching Boyne, which derives its name from the capital and its most sacred and mythical castle in Europe, or pay your respects at 7-*8'$62#'362'9)..2//)-:';$'("<'0)0' legendary Celtic goddess Bóann (see landscape. In 1849 William Wilde, father the shrine of St. Oliver Plunkett. prehistoric people settle and thrive Myths & Legends, p. 52), has long been of Oscar, wrote of the Boyne that the along the banks of this river? The recognised as one of Ireland’s most history of Ireland may be traced through Boyne: River & Valley answer lies in the landscape and climate important waterways. its monuments. This remains true today. The River Boyne is the principal of the region. Moreover, its sites and monuments are waterway in Leinster, the most easterly In the 2nd century AD the Greek amongst the best examples of their of the Irish provinces. The river rises at The richness of the soil in the lands geographer, Claudius Ptolemy recorded kind in Europe and are all within a short Trinity Well, near Carbury, Co. Kildare bordering and drained by the Boyne the outline of the island of Ireland in the distance of each other. In one day you and meanders slowly north-eastwards was ideal for Neolithic farmers (who form of a set of coordinates showing can visit the great prehistoric tombs at through the gentle and fertile plains began to arrive in Ireland around 0)=2#2/!'&2$&#-1")*-.'>2-!%#2,',%*"' Brú na Bóinne (Newgrange) and the site of Co. Meath before entering the Irish 4,000 BC). Moreover, the east coast of as headlands and rivers. He included of the infamous Battle of the Boyne. Sea at Drogheda, Co. Louth. The valley Ireland, between Dublin and Drogheda, on this map, in his own language, the You can look out from the Hill of Tara, !"#$%&"'(")*"')!'+$(,'),'-'.-/0,*-12' is the driest part of the country and names of several Irish tribes, cities and sharing the view with the ancient High of large farms, celebrated for their ideally suited to growing crops. The rivers, including ‘Bouvinda’ – the Boyne. Kings of Ireland, or be mesmerised by 3/2'1-,!%#2,4'1)*!%#2,5%2'6)..-&2,'-/0' river was valuable as a source of food the detail of the Celtic Crosses at Kells. thriving towns. There is a long history and, long before roads, its waters were 4 FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO WWW.BOYNEVALLEYDRIVE.IE FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO WWW.BOYNEVALLEYDRIVE.IE 5 Boyne V alley Archaeological & Historical Timeline Mesolithic Period Neolithic Period Bronze Age Iron Age Early Christian Period 7000 – 4000 BC 4000 – 2200 BC 2200 – 600 BC 600 BC – 400 AD 400 – 790 AD c. 7000 BC c. 4000 BC Early activity at Tara 227 - 266 AD 433 AD Our journey begins 9,000 First Mesolithic First wave of Neolithic Legendary King of Ireland St. Patrick returns to years ago after the great ice hunter gatherers farmers arrive in Ireland Cormac Mac Airt reigns Ireland & lights Paschal arrive in Ireland from Tara 3#2'-!'B)..'$>';.-/2 sheets that covered Ireland c. 3200 BC during the last Ice Age had Newgrange, 521 AD retreated. The island was Dowth & Knowth St. Buite, founder of Monasterboice, dies wild, uninhabited and c. 3000 BC Loughcrew "2-6).<'($$020:'C"2'3#,!' people – Stone Age hunters – were drawn to Irish shores in search of food. Viking Age Medieval Period Post-Medieval Period Industrial Age Modern Age 790 – 1169 AD 1169 – 1550 AD 1550 – 1800 AD 1800 – 1900 AD 1900 – present 804 AD 1169 AD 1641 AD 1808 AD 1953 Kells monastery founded by Anglo-Normans arrive Rebellion Millmount Mortello Tower is Pierce Brosnan, former monks from St. Columba’s in Ireland constructed James Bond, & honorary foundation, Iona 1649 AD OBE, is born in Navan 1172 AD Cromwell’s Siege of Drogheda 1843 AD 980 AD Henry II grants Meath to One million people attend 1986 Battle of Tara Hugh de Lacy 1681 AD Daniel O’Connell’s ‘monster Freddy Mercury & Queen St. Oliver Plunkett martyred meeting’ at Tara play Slane Castle 1007 AD 1173 AD Book of Kells stolen 1690 AD Trim Castle built by 1847 AD Battle of the Boyne 1993 Hugh de Lacy Worst year of the Great 1022 AD Newgrange, Knowth & 1699 AD Famine, known as ‘Black ‘47’ Dowth become UNESCO Tara abandoned as 1194 AD Newgrange is ‘discovered’ World Heritage sites seat of the High Kings Drogheda-in-Meath of Ireland 1855 AD granted charter and Boyne Viaduct railway bridge 1785 AD May 2008 ?$@*)-..<A'>$%/020'' completed 1142 AD Slane Castle is reconstructed Visitor Centre at the Mellifont Abbey is Battle of the Boyne 1494 AD 1798 AD 1887 AD founded by St. Malachy ,)!2'$@*)-..<'$12/20' Poyning’s Law passed in Rising Francis Ledwidge, poet, born of Armagh by Taoiseach Bertie Drogheda outside Slane, Co. Meath Ahern and First 1152 AD Minister of Northern Synod of Kells 1512 AD Slane Abbey is Ireland, Dr. Ian Paisley constructed 6 FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO WWW.BOYNEVALLEYDRIVE.IE FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO WWW.BOYNEVALLEYDRIVE.IE 7 Trim Trim contains more Medieval buildings than any town in Ireland Trim is situated on the banks of the River Boyne in an area of fertile plains. The town developed around Trim Castle, straddling the river to the north and west of the castle. In the 13th century the town was enclosed within a circuit of stone walls. Augustinian (1202), Franciscan (1260), and Dominican (1263) friaries were established, indicating is credited with Napoleon’s defeat at the more about how the coming of the Normans the growing prosperity of the town. In the later medieval period Trim Battle of Waterloo in 1815, and later served -=2*!20'!"2'-#2-:'C"2'6),)!$#'*2/!#2'-.,$' became an increasingly exposed frontier, standing between the hostile as Prime Minister of Great Britain (1828-30). has a tourist information point, gift and worlds of the Anglo-Normans and the Gaelic Irish. Don Ambrosio O’Higgins (1720 – 1801), the *$=22',"$1: Spanish Viceroy of Peru and Chile, was born at Did you know? There is a small Gaeltacht (Irish- Dangan Castle. His son, Bernardo O’Higgins, speaking community) at Ráth Cairn (Rathcarne), Aside from Trim Castle, which dominates unaltered bridge (dating from 1393) crosses went on to become the ‘Liberator of Chile’. the town, the fragments of the medieval the Boyne at Trim (on Bridge St., Trim). near Trim. In the 1930s a total of 443 people from Connemara in the west of Ireland town are still clearly visible.
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