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Explore Louth: Heritage Trail Routes Route 2: Dundalk & the Cooley Peninsula Route 3: Mid Louth & the Boyne Valley Explore Louth: Heritage Trail Mourne Mountains Proleek Dolmen Carlingford Omeath Ravensdale Lough Edward Bruce Forest Park Feede Greenway King John’s Ravensdale Castle Long Castle Hill of Cooley Heritage Centre Roche St. Brigid’s Faughart Woman’s Mountains Shrine Grave Slieve Tholsel Greencastle Foy Ballymascanlon CARLINGFORD DUNDALK St Patrick’s Greenore Pro Cathedral County Museum Railway Museum Dundalk Library Grange Grange Church Cú Chulainn's Oriel Centre Dundalk Bay Castle Agnes Burns Cottage & Stephenstown Pond Knockbridge Blackrock Promenade M1 St. Mochtas Louth Wetland & House Wildlife Sanctury Driving Routes Round Tower Why not take the road less travelled and Explore Louth, Land of Legends and Full of Life® National Tidy Tallanstown Towns Winner Dromiskin Route 1: Drogheda & Louth’s Coastal Villages Route 2: Dundalk & The Cooley Peninsula Route 3: Mid Louth & The Boyne Valley Castlebellingham Annagassan Site of Chantry Linn Duchaill College Ardee Castle M1 St. Mary’s ARDEE The Jumping Abbey Church Hatch’s Kildemock Castle Dunleer M1 Special area of conservation Monasterboice High Clogherhead Cross & Round Tower Collon Port Oriel Old Mellifont High Cross Abbey Monasterboice Termonfeckin Castle Termonfeckin M1 Belfast Mellifont Irish Military War Museum Laurence’s Gate Baltray Beaulieu House DROGHEDA Beaulieu & Gardens Dublin Galway Louth Oldbridge Battle of the Boyne St. Peter’s The Tholsel Church Highlanes Cork Millmount Gallery Museum www.visitlouth.ie www.drogheda.ie Designed & Printed at Anglo Printers 041 9835000 Explore Louth: Heritage Trail Routes Route 2: Dundalk & The Cooley Peninsula Route 3: Mid Louth & The Boyne Valley DUNDALK TOURIST OFFICE Mourne, Cooley & Gullion region enjoy this stunningly beautiful KNOCKBRIDGE in single-combat at the fording point on the River Market Square, Dundalk, Co. Louth and historic area of Ireland. Knockbridge Dee and fought furiously. Cúchulainn finally Route 1: Drogheda & Louth’s Coastal Villages T: +353 (0)42 9352111 GPS: 53.972305, won, and after fatally wounding Ferdia he carried E: [email protected] CARLINGFORD -6.484100 him across the ford so he could die in honour. A www.visitlouth.ie | 54.004307, -6.403209 DROGHEDA TOURIST INFORMATION OFFICE is in the ‘artisan GPS: Carlingford Tourist Office Stephenstown bronze sculpture, created by Ann Meldon-Hugh, The Tholsel, West St., Drogheda mannerist’ style, Old Railway Station, Carlingford, Pond GPS: commemorates the mythical battle. Co. Louth T: +353 (0)41 9872843 Beaulieu House and COUNTY MUSEUM 53.962871, 54.004546, -6.397108 [email protected] E: [email protected] four acre walled GPS: E: -6.459917 Jumping Church One of Ireland’s finest Local www.visitlouth.ie www.drogheda.ie | GPS: 53.714833, -6.350469 garden are open GPS: 53.835870, to visitors and Authority Museums is located in T: +353 (0)42 9419692 Stephenstown Pond Knockbridge village -6.520906 a restored 18th Century distillery, 54.040764, -6.185189 THE THOLSEL small groups – with GPS: takes its name from Cnoc Bhríde (Brigid’s Hill) About 1.5km outside which once boasted the tallest GPS: 53.714833, -6.350469 advance booking a site connected with local Saint Brigid. On the Ardee at Kildemock, Built in 1770, the Tholsel has been used for required. chimney in Ireland. The museum King John’s Castle & Other outskirts of Knockbridge is Cúchulainn’s Stone you will find The corporation meetings, court functions and chronicles the history of Buildings (Clochafarmore) standing at over 3m high. This Jumping Church. Louth through a combination 54.043288, -6.186881 also served as a gaol. In 2007 the ground BALTRAY GPS: stone is traditionally associated with the greatest Believe it or Not: of interactive displays and , overlooking floor became the tourist office. It features a GPS: 53.737415, -6.267267 King John’s Castle hero of Irish folklore - Cúchulainn. Nearby Legend says that the wall of the Kildemock free multimedia tourist exhibition, “Drogheda, The view from Baltray, is worth the short trip artefacts, over three galleries. Carlingford Lough, was the first Stephenstown Pond is a unique nature park with Church ‘jumped’ to exclude the remains of an Gateway to the Boyne Valley.” from Drogheda. Baltray beach is a protected stone building in Carlingford. The lakeside walkways, woodlands, and a wide array excommunicated man from the sacred enclosure nesting site of one of Ireland’s rarest breeding DUNDALK LIBRARY – ANCESTRY RESEARCH eastern half of the castle was of wildlife. The cottage situated here was once within the church 54.004531, -6.397931 added to in 1261 AD. Wander ST. PETER’S CHURCH sea birds, the Little Tern. On the north of the GPS: the home of Agnes Burns, sister of Scotland’s The Louth County Library offers a genealogical research around medieval Carlingford & ST. OLIVER estuary, near Baltray, you will find two imposing National Poet, Robert Burns. COLLON service. Their Catholic church records cover 20 parishes, with a village and discover it’s many PLUNKETT’S SHRINE standing stones that have watched over the river GPS: 53.779724, -6.486762 total of over 258,000 entries, from the mid 1700’s up to 1900. other historic buildings including: , built in the GPS: 53.7149377, for 5,000 years. Taaffes Castle LOUTH VILLAGE Collon House, ancestral home of the Foster family, -6.352514 1600’s, The Tholsel, a late medieval town gate, The Mint, with GPS: 53.950888, -6.540540 dominates the crossroads in the village. Collon five highly decorated limestone windows and the St. Peter’s Church TERMONFECKIN ST. PATRICK’S PRO-CATHEDRAL Dominican St Mochta, a disciple of St Patrick, established Church is a prominent landmark dominating the 54.003724, -6.399030 , believed to be founded by Richard de Burgo in c. 1305. is among the finest High Cross GPS: 53.761334, -6.270134 GPS: Priory a monastery in Louth around 528, though no southern approach to the village. Commissioned This cathedral took 12 years to build and was completed in Gothic Revival Castle GPS: 53.760342, -6.266881 remains survived. The ruined buildings at the by Speaker John Foster, of Collon House, and Churches in Ireland A monastery was founded here by St. Feichin 1847. The imposing gothic design was inspired by the chapel at Carlingford Heritage Centre site today are of the 13th century church of St designed by the talented architect Rev Daniel and is famous for housing in the 7th century. In the graveyard of St. King’s College in Cambridge and its impressive interior features GPS: 54.038951, -6.185398 Mary’s Augustinian Priory known as St Mochta’s Augustus Beaufort, the church is thought to have the shrine of St. Oliver Plunkett, who was hanged Fechins COI is a smaller than usual high cross splendid mosaic sanctuary walls. Located in a beautifully restored medieval church, a permanent House, which dates to the second half of the 12th been modelled on the chapel of King’s College, at Tyburn in England on 1st July 1681. standing at around 9ft. Termonfeckin Castle, display documents Carlingford’s history from references to the century. The village itself was once the seat of the Cambridge. was constructed in the 15th or 16th century and ORIEL CENTRE, DUNDALK GAOL Vikings circa 850 AD, through the Norman & Medieval eras to Bishops of Clogher and also the royal residence of 53.999820, -6.410210 modern times. ST. LAURENCE’S GATE stands three stories tall with a vaulted second GPS: the O’Carrolls, Kings of Oriel. IRISH MILITARY WAR MUSEUM Located in the historic Dundalk Gaol, the centre is open – information on genealogy, baptisms, GPS: 53.715897, -6.347091 level and spiral stairs. There is a key available for Ancestry Research GPS: 53.764030, -6.470753 St Laurence’s Gate is access to the castle from a local caretaker (see throughout the year, with regular concerts featuring traditional marriages and deaths in parishes on the Cooley Peninsula can TALLANSTOWN About 3.5km outside Collon you will find the Irish widely regarded as one notice at site). Irish music. Explore the history of the Gaol and region’s be found online at www.carlingfordheritagecentre.com GPS: 53.919456, -6.547838 Military War Museum, Ireland’s largest private of the finest of its kind in cultural legacy through its interactive audio–visual displays. Picturesque Tallanstown Village, a former National military collective housed in a 5,000 sq ft ‘hands Europe. Twice the walls CLOGHERHEAD FAMINE VILLAGE (SLIEVE FOY MOUNTAIN) Tidy Towns winner, lies on the banks of the River on’ museum with WW1 and WW2 trenches and Take the Barnavave Loop Walk from Carlingford, and pass and gates held strong, GPS: 53.790935, CÚCHULAINN’S CASTLE/ Glyde. Here you will find a statue to Vere Foster, vehicles, original decommissioned weapons and firstly against Edward -6.239128 CASTLETOWN MOTTE through a deserted Famine Village located on the mountain, founder and first president of the Irish National equipment. The museum is set across a 22 acre Bruce in 1317 and again Clogherhead, a GPS: 54.013940, -6.429959 which was last occupied in the 1800’s. Teachers organisation, who considered education site and tank rides can be booked on request in 1642 against Sir Special Area of It was built by a well-known pirate as a liberator from poverty. along with guided tours of the exhibits. Phelim O’Neill. Conservation, Patrick Byrne, in 1780 AD. The OMEATH is also listed motte is built on the site of a pre- GPS: 54.088969, -6.257108 ARDEE TOWN OLD MELLIFONT as an Area of Christian fort called Dún Dealgan, Omeath village, on the shores of Carlingford Lough, was home GPS: 53.855425, -6.539090 ABBEY The Fort of Dealga’. This site is to native Irish speakers until the mid 20th Century. From here HIGHLANES GALLERY Outstanding Ardee, a busy market town, gets its name from GPS: 53.742824, important in Irish mythology as you can join the Carlingford Lough Greenway, built along the GPS: 53.715417, -6.348481 Natural Beauty due to its rare coastal the Irish, Áth Fhirdhia (the Ford of Ferdia).
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