History
The town is located close to the site of Newgrange, a burial mound constructed around 3200 BC. The town itself was founded in 911 by the Danes. The Irish Parliament moved to the town in 1494 and passed Poyning’s Law a year later. The town was besieged twice during the Irish Confederate Wars (see the siege of Drogheda). On the second occasion it was taken by Oliver Cromwell in September 1649, as part of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. Drogheda was the site of an infamous massacre of the Royalist defenders. The Battle of the Boyne, 1690 occurred near the town at the River Boyne.
During the The Great Famine, in 1847 the Ottoman Empire wished to donate Ireland 10,000 pounds on behalf of humanity, but Queen Victoria would let only 1000 English pounds to be given as a healing. So, the Ottoman padishah of the time, Abdlmecid (abdeulmedgid), sent 5 freighter ships (filled with bulk for the Irish) to Britain from Istanbul. In response to Queen Victoria preventing the ships to dock in English ports, the five ships disembarked their loads in the first Irish port possible, Drogheda. Since then in the coat of arms of the city of Drogheda, the crescent and the star above symbolize the historical link between Turks and the Irish.
Points of interest
Boyne Viaduct
Millmount Fort
St Peter’s Roman Catholic Church
Famous inhabitants
Nick Colgan, legendary goalkeeper
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