As you pass through Drogheda, this is the town Cromwell took by storm in 1649. Once resistance ended and the garrison had surrendered on promises of quarter, Cromwell ordered that even these be put to the sword. He is said to have witnessed and enforced the command himself. The killing lasted five days, and only 30 men were spared, sent for transportation to Barbados.

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As you come through Drogheda, this is where the Battle of the Boyne unfolded in 1690. Dean Rowland Davies, a chaplain in King William's army, marched towards the town at two in the morning on 30 June and found King James encamped across the Boyne, then drew up all the horse within cannon shot of his lines. Six cannonballs were fired at William as he passed; one tore the king's coat on the shoulder, another struck the top of the Duke of Wurtemberg's pistol and the whiskers off his horse. They stood under at least twenty shots until a man and two horses were killed among the Dutch guards, then retired into a trench. On 1 July, William charged at the head of the Enniskilling horse, who deserted him at the first charge and carried a Dutch regiment with them, but the king's blue troops of guards soon supplied their place, and with them he charged in person and routed the enemy.

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This is a burial ground at Mell. It was found in 2000, before the M1 motorway was built. The site lies just west of a ring-ditch and a Bronze Age enclosure. Excavation uncovered nine graves, all laid east to west, and two pits. Seven graves formed a slightly staggered row, with the remaining two set to the west of that row. Only five graves held skeletal remains, none complete, the bone very brittle in each case. Most of the graves were crudely lined with stone. A small silver object carrying zoomorphic decoration came from one grave, found just to the right of where the skull would have been. An early medieval date is suggested for these burials.

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Somewhere around here, the Battle of the Boyne was fought in 1690. It was fought across the River Boyne close to Drogheda. The forces of the deposed King James the Second faced those of King William the Third, who with his wife Queen Mary the Second had taken the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1689. William's forces defeated James's army, which consisted mostly of raw recruits. The victory turned the tide in James's failed attempt to regain the crowns and ultimately aided in ensuring the continued Protestant ascendancy in Ireland. The battle took place on 1 July 1690 by the old calendar. James fled to France after the Boyne and never returned. The Williamite War in Ireland continued until the Treaty of Limerick was signed in October 1691, but for James, the fight was over.

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The River Boyne flows near this road. The Four Masters record that Finn MacCumhaill was slain here in 283, killed by the cast of a javelin at a place called Ath-Brea, during the reign of Cairbre Lifeachair.

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A passage tomb at Townleyhall, excavated in 1960, held a round mound 13.5 metres across, covering the site of a destroyed undifferentiated passage-tomb aligned north-east to south-west with its entrance at the north-east end. Only two orthostats survived, but the sockets of the others were found. The tomb originally consisted of sixteen uprights: seven on each side and two at the rear. It measured 5.3 metres long, widening from about 1 metre internally at the entrance to 1.6 metres at the centre, then narrowing to 1.2 metres at the rear. Four concentric rings of stone setting enclosed the tomb, lined in places by radial lines of stones. The mound was originally bounded by a stone kerb, thirteen of which survived. No finds were recovered. Beneath the mound lay a settlement site. This is National Monument number 529, in state ownership.

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Not far from here the River Boyne flows through open country. In 1798 it was the scene of a disastrous rebel expedition. Father Kearns, a priest with great influence over the Wexford fugitives, persuaded the rebels to leave a strong position where Holt says they could have made good resistance and obtained terms. Instead they moved into open country, apparently for the express purpose of delivering themselves into their enemies' power. Holt called it a scheme ill conceived and worse executed. He blamed the folly of having too many heads directing a multitude, saying that fools and cowards predominate, and in times of trouble when promptitude is required, delay and loss of opportunity become inevitable. The next morning about 300 men came to Harney's house, part of the poor wretches that escaped from the expedition. They were the fortunate ones. Holt says they were defeated, multitudes destroyed, taken and gibbeted. He wrote that the folly of their acts brought on its due punishment. To have proposed prudent measures before the advance, he said, would have produced certain death to anyone.

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Somewhere around here at Slane, Patrick lit the paschal fire on Easter Eve, around 432 or 433. The place was then called Ferta-fer-feic. He had a tent pitched and kindled the fire at nightfall, in defiance of a standing law that no fire should be lit in the surrounding area before the great fire at the royal palace of Tara. His fire was seen from the heights of Tara, and it caused great astonishment. King Laoghaire was there with the assembled princes, holding a festival of fire-worship. When he asked who had broken the law, his Magi told him the fire must be extinguished at once, or it would overcome their fires and bring the downfall of his kingdom. Laoghaire, enraged and troubled, set out for Slane with a considerable number of followers and one or two of the principal Magi, intending to exterminate the violators. They sat down some distance from the tent and summoned Patrick to appear and account for himself. It was arranged that no one should rise or show him any mark of respect. But when he came before them, Erech, son of Dego, disobeyed the order and stood up to salute him. He received Patrick's blessing and became a believer, and was afterwards Bishop of Slane. The next day, Easter Sunday, Patrick was at the palace of Tara, preaching before the king and the assembly. The only person who rose to pay him respect was Dubtach, an eminent poet, who became the first convert that day and afterwards dedicated his poetry to Christian subjects.

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Somewhere close to Slane, in 1169, Robert Fitzstephen burned the large ecclesiastical establishment here, along with those at Kells and Clonard. It was one of his early feats after landing near Wexford that year. Fitzstephen had come at the invitation of MacMurrogh, King of Leinster, who had been expelled by his own subjects because of his licentious mode of life. MacMurrogh asked Henry, King of England, for help regaining his throne. Henry recognised the advantage and issued orders from Normandy empowering certain Anglo-Norman barons to aid him. Fitzstephen was among those who responded. On arriving in Ireland, Fitzstephen was joined by MacMurrogh, and together they burned the ecclesiastical establishments at Kells, Slane, and Clonard. The record calls this, in its words, a remarkable way of furthering the object of religion, which was the ostensible reason advanced by Adrian IV for making over Ireland to Henry II. In 1170, Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, known as Strongbow, landed in Ireland. The provincial kings of Connaught, Ulster, and Munster were fighting one another, too intent on their own objects to combine and defend their country.

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Somewhere around here is Slane Castle, in the Boyne Valley of County Meath. It has been the seat of the Conyngham family since it was built in the late 1700s, on land first purchased in 1703 by Brigadier General Henry Conyngham. The grounds form a natural amphitheatre and host the Slane concerts. By 2004 the Irish Independent could say that "Slane today is the kind of internationally recognised venue that can claim even Madonna's attention."

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The road takes you near the River Boyne. For centuries before the English invasion, this river was called the river of sanctity and science, because so many ecclesiastical houses and schools were maintained on its banks. Yet the Danes devastated those banks repeatedly during the ninth century. The Annals of the Four Masters record, at 931, the death of the chief poet of Ireland, the Bard of the Boyne. Then, at 1032, the same annals record a sad victory obtained on its banks by Sitric, the son of Aulaffe, and his Danes, over the Irish. 300 of the Irish were slain or taken prisoners. After the English invasion, the stretch of this river from Trim to Drogheda was the acknowledged northern terminator of the Pale. In 1203, King John confirmed to the Abbot of Mellefont certain rights of fishery at both sides of the river, as appurtenant to the landed possessions of his house. In 1330, a memorable flood swept away all the bridges except Babe's bridge, near Blackcastle, and did much injury at Trim, Drogheda, and the adjoining districts. In 1342, the king directed his mandate to his Escheator, Roger D'Arcy, reciting a prior writ requiring him to certify his findings.

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The River Boyne runs through this part of the country. On the first of July, 1690, at daybreak, the Prince of Orange detached the right wing of his army with orders to cross the Boyne some miles above the position James the Second's forces had taken up. The aim was a flank movement, to seize the king's left wing and also the road to Dublin. O'Neil's cavalry did good work for the Irish. For some time they held the river and prevented the English troops from crossing. But O'Neil ultimately fell back and retired toward the main body of the Irish army. The English followed, advancing over very rough ground, until a bog between them and the left wing of the Irish brought them to a stand. O'Neil's troops crossed the bog by a narrow passage, but the English could not follow in the face of a strong opposing force. James the Second was to some extent ignorant of the ground to the left of his position. He put himself at the head of his French troops to oppose the advancing right wing of William's army.

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The River Boyne runs through this part of the country. In the year 594, Colum Cille died in the 76th year of his age. A poem remembered him with these words: "Alas, in truth he who was caught in the net; the speckled salmon who was in the Boyne."

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Annals of Ireland : three fragments (1860), Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. Manuscript. Bibliothèque de Bourgogne, 7, c.n.17, Internet Archive annalsofirelandt00bibl, Chapter 2 · source

A holy well at Stackallan in Meath, known as Tober Patrick. It sits within a gully on the south bank of a meandering stream that runs west to east. Wilde noted the well was neglected and disused in his time, and Thunder, writing in 1886-7, also recorded its neglected state. Patrick is depicted and named on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map. The well is supposed to have a stone with the mark of St Patrick's knees on it. It was recorded as a rectangular masonry sunken feature in 1969, but had become obscured by 2019. Archaeological testing by R. Tobin showed that ground level had been raised by about 0.6 metres when a pumphouse about 2 metres south of the well damaged the original masonry structure. Part of that structure survived, with a channel leading north to the stream. Local information records that Tober Patrick was about 200 metres further east and on the north side of the stream.

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Somewhere around here, in 1596, the O'Reillys and Duffs came to Dunmoe, a village on the Boyne, and took about 100 cows. They unyoked the garrans from the ploughs and carried them off too. From here they went to the Granges, a village belonging to Nicholas Birford, and in revenge for his late good service took all the cattle and goods he had, killed one of his men, dangerously injured another, and burned his house. All of this was done within 2 miles of Navan, before sunset. Every night some spoil was being committed along this border, and unless order was taken for guarding it, the bishop warned that no man dwelling on the side of the Boyne who was not of Philip O'Reilly's confederacy would possess any goods. Shortly after this, Philip O'Reilly was killed in one of the forays. The bishop urged that a small force sent to the borders would recover the Brenny, but little response came. The following year the O'Reillys were back, raiding the Pale towards Kells. The queen's soldiers under the sheriff of Meath, with 40 horsemen and 100 foot, plus the Kells garrison of 100 men, went to meet them but were badly beaten. The horsemen fled and overran their own footmen. The commanding officer was killed, with his ensign and sergeant, his lieutenant mortally wounded, another officer taken prisoner, and 50 of the company slain.

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Dunmoe Castle stands on a bluff overlooking a weir on the River Boyne, which lies about 100 metres to the south and about 20 metres lower. It could be an early castle but its history is obscure. It withstood a siege by rebels in 1641 until Captain Power, its commander, was persuaded to surrender. According to the Civil Survey, Thomas Darcy owned the entire parish, consisting of 395 acres, in 1640. On the premises there was, in the survey's words, "a Castle, a Church, a Mill, an Orchard and a fishing weare." The Darcy family retained the castle in the Cromwellian settlement and rebuilt it in the reign of James II. A drawing from 1795 by Francis Grose shows it as an occupied rectangular structure, but it is said to have been burned in the rising of 1798, when the north half of it collapsed. It is a large rectangular structure with circular towers at the angles, but only those at the south-east and south-west survive. The ground floor is buried but was vaulted and had a loft, as well as two rows of long arrow-loops on the south wall, which could indicate a thirteenth-century date. There is a newel stair in the south-west tower, which has a keyhole gun-loop. The first floor has large windows that are robbed. A two-storey gabled building with an oven at the ground floor is attached to the east. The church is immediately adjacent to the west.

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Somewhere around here are the remains of Babe's Bridge, a 13th-century bridge over the River Boyne near Navan, County Meath. Only the southeast span survives, along with some of the abutments still standing in the river. The remaining arch is owned by An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland, as part of the Boyne Navigation property.

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Somewhere close to Blackcastle, the rocks along the Boyne were once a place of secret worship. For seventy years the Catholics of Navan worshipped God, and frequently during that time their little chapel was closed against them, owing to a more rigorous enforcement of the penal laws. Then Mass would be celebrated by stealth, while the stars were twinkling, on those lonely rocks which line the Boyne below Blackcastle. The statute against Catholic education was never relaxed during the same period. No school was tolerated, up to 1782, inside the corporate boundaries. The youth of Navan who wished to acquire knowledge were obliged to steal out to the parish of Donaghmore, and there graduate under the hedge schoolmaster. How long Reverend Garret Darcy lived after 1704 is now unknown. He was succeeded by Doctor Luke Fagan, bishop of Meath, whose secretary and administrator was Reverend Nicholas Dempsey. Doctor Fagan was transferred to the archiepiscopal see of Dublin in September 1729, and was succeeded in the diocese of Meath by Doctor Stephen MacEgan, to whom the Holy See granted the parish of Navan in commendam. Doctor MacEgan died in Dublin on the 30th of May 1756, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, and was interred in Saint James's churchyard. He was a zealous and untiring labourer, and as a preacher was second to none in the Irish Church. The Reverend Christopher Fleming succeeded. He was curate for many years under Doctor MacEgan, and after his death became vicar-general of the diocese. About the year 1772, the mudwall thatched chapel of Leighsbrook crumbled and fell on Christmas night, and the following morning the parishioners found themselves without a place of worship. For many months after, the Holy Sacrifice was offered up in a sentry box procured from the cavalry barracks. In a yard off Trimgate Street, the priest officiated while the people knelt on the bare ground, with no other roof but the sky.

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Up ahead is Navan, and in 1737 it was where an old priest's long road ended. Father Barnwall had spent years evading priest-hunters around Ardbraccan, celebrating Mass at ditches, hiding in barns and stables, sometimes roaming the lonely fields in a woman's cloak with the hood over his head to escape watchful eyes. He was over eighty years of age, still erect and on the roll of active service. When they arrested him he pleaded guilty to the charge of having celebrated Mass, and there was a yell of joy at his capture. He was clad in a long frieze coat, wore an old hat, had his breviary in one hand and a staff in the other, and in that plight he was marched in triumph to Navan and lodged in the bridewell. After a fortnight's confinement he was sent a prisoner to Dublin Castle, whence he never returned to his faithful sorrowing people. The traditions of the parish say he was put to death for the faith, though whether in England or in Dublin there is no authentic account. Whether he died violently or by slow imprisonment, he earned the distinction of having been one of the martyrs of those dismal times.

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About 1772, Mass was offered in a sentry box off Trimgate Street in Navan. The mudwall thatched chapel of Leighsbrook had crumbled and fallen on Christmas night, and the following morning the parishioners found themselves without a place of worship. The Reverend Christopher Fleming, curate for many years under Doctor MacEgan and vicar general of the diocese of Meath, had succeeded. For many months after, the sentry box was procured from the cavalry barracks as a temporary shelter in a yard. The priest officiated inside while the people knelt on the bare ground, with no other roof but the sky.

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A Franciscan church near New Bridge, built in the 18th century on the site of the old monastic church, holds curious monuments. Among them, the monument of Sir P. French stands out, as does another figured with many saints. Remnants of elaborate carving survive there. A Dominican friary once stood near this church. Beyond Lynch's Castle in Shop Street stands the Church of St. Nicholas, dating from 1320. The tower, partly rough-cast, has uncommon corners and a modern steeple disfigured by clocks. The ornaments above the south door are peculiar. The interior once served as stables for the chargers of the Parliament troops during the Civil War. The chief features of interest are the old slabs in the south transept, and the tomb of the famous Lynch Fitz-Stephen. The font is old and good. In the north aisle is what is generally called "the Confessional," but "nothing is definitely known of it, and there is reason to doubt that it was ever intended for such use." There are ten bells in the tower. One, the old clock-bell dated 1590, is no longer used. Of the remaining nine, the two largest are cracked. The largest bell now in use, the sixth in order of ringing, dates from 1631 and is beautifully ornamented.

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As you pass through Navan, you are passing through the site of a massacre from April 1642. Soldiers under Grenville's command killed about 80 men, women, and children in and around the town. All of those killed had been living under protection at the time — granted safety, and nevertheless slain.

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Coming up through Navan, in County Meath. In 1460, Bishop Edmond Ouldhal of Meath came here on a market day and, in solemn procession through the market, excommunicated Thomas Bathe, a knight who called himself lord of Louth, for refusing to return goods he had robbed from Master John Stackbolle, a doctor of each degree. The bishop pronounced the psalm Deus laudem against him openly, and decreed that wherever Thomas afterwards went, no baptism, burial, or mass could be held for three days. Thomas remained obstinate, and then sent his servants to the abbey here in Navan, where Stackbolle had taken refuge. They dragged him from the Church of Our Blessed Lady, carried him off to Wilkinston, and held him prisoner. There they cut out his tongue and, as they intended, put out his eyes. They then brought him back to the same church and cast him before the image of Our Lady, and by her miraculous power, the story goes, his sight and his tongue were restored to him.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Some Notices of the Castle and of the Ecclesiastical Buildings of Trim (1861), Butler, Richard, 1794-1862, Internet Archive somenoticesofcas00butl, Chapter 129 · source

Coming up along the road through Navan, in Meath. After the Anglo-Norman invasion, Navan mattered because of its central position, and Hugh de Lacy walled and fortified it. After the conquest of Meath, de Lacy divided that ancient principality among his followers and gave Navan and Ardsallagh to Joceline de Angulo, or Nangle, one of the bravest of his knights. Under the Nangle family Navan became a flourishing town, and through the munificence of that house it was one of the first boroughs established in the palatinate of Meath. In the reign of Edward the Fourth, Navan received a charter, and under Henry the Seventh additional privileges were granted to the citizens. In 1539 the northern Irish, under Con O'Neil and Manus O'Donnell, invaded the English Pale, and among other Anglo-Irish towns they plundered Navan. They carried off, in the words of the source, "spoils of gold and silver, copper, iron, and every sort of goods and valuables besides." To guard against such a recurrence, it was enacted in the thirty-fourth year of Henry the Eighth that every ploughland in Meath and Westmeath should be charged for four years with the payment of 3s. 4d., for the purpose of building the walls of Navan. Under James the First and Charles the Second the town received additional charters and favours, and while national independence lasted, Navan sent two representatives to the Irish parliament.

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The River Boyne. In 1641, during the siege of Drogheda, this river froze so hard that it could scarcely be broken with mallets. Horses and men could and did pass safely over the ice. The following year, the Earl of Ormond was commissioned to lead 3000 foot and 500 horse towards the Boyne, to prosecute the rebels with fire and sword. Eight days only were allowed for the expedition, and he was strictly and injudiciously enjoined on no account to pass this river. The same passage carries an earlier story near this water. O'Donnell and a companion travelled until they were about 2000 paces from the river, where they saw a close sheltering grove surrounded by a strong great ditch, as if it were a garden. Beside the wood was a noble mansion called the great monastery, most likely Mellefont, belonging to a noted young Englishman attached to Hugh O'Neill. They leaped the ditch and went straight forward into the wood, where they stopped their horses. O'Donnell was refreshed and stayed in a secret room until the night of the next day, when he resumed his journey. Passing through Dundalk, he arrived safely at the friendly residence of Turlough O'Neill.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The History of Drogheda, with its Environs (vol. 2) (1844), D'Alton, John, 1792-1867, Internet Archive historydrogheda01dalgoog, Chapter 178 · source

Somewhere close to Bective, Sebastian Shortal once held the title of abbot. Born in Kilkenny, he became a Cistercian monk at the monastery of Nucuale in Galicia, Spain, where he was held in great reputation. A writer of that order described him as a man of sharp wit, a good disputant, and one of the best poets their society ever had, whose writings had obtained a high character. He was sent as a missionary to Ireland, but on the passage was taken by the Moors and made a slave. After being redeemed, he returned to his native country and was made Titular Abbot of Bective in Meath. He died on the 3rd of December 1639.

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Bective Abbey is the resting place, for a time, of Hugh de Lacy, who conquered Meath. After he was murdered at Durrow in 1186, his body was not recovered until 1195, when the Archbishop of Cashel, Legate of Ireland, and John, Archbishop of Dublin, brought it from the Irish country and buried it in the Abbey of Bective. His head they buried in the church of St. Thomas in Dublin. St. Thomas's had been founded by William Fitz-Adelm, a companion of the great Palatine, and largely endowed by him. The brotherhood of St. Thomas claimed the rest of the remains from the monks at Bective. A fierce controversy ensued among the rival churchmen over which abbey should possess both the relics, and as in all Irish ecclesiastical disputes, the Pope was appealed to for his decision. Innocent the Third appointed the celebrated Simon Kochfort, then Bishop of Meath, and his archdeacon, together with Gilebert, the prior of Duleek, to arbitrate between the belligerents. They awarded the corpse to the monks of St. Thomas, to which place it was accordingly removed. An arcade of pointed cinquefoil arches, supported by light clustered pillars with elegantly carved capitals, separates the cloister from the quadrangle on the southern side. Beneath one of these, tradition says, the great Lord Palatine was buried. The carving of the colonnade, built from the hard Ardbraccan stone, is in fine preservation.

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A tower house at Trubley in Meath, on the south-east bank of the River Boyne. The Civil Survey of 1654 to 1656 records that Bartholomew Cusack owned 228 acres at Trubley in Deece barony in 1640, and the property included, in the words of the source, "a Castle and two Corne Mills." The Down Survey barony map depicts it as a small gabled house. It is described as the remains of a square tower with circular corner towers. The Ordnance Survey 25-inch map represents two circular towers about 20 metres apart, though one might have been a corner tower from a bawn. The last remains were blown down in a storm in the 1970s and have since been removed without trace in a farmyard. The parish church of Trubley stands about 170 metres to the south-west.

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The River Boyne has a remarkable winding that old writings call the sweep of the Boyne, where the water spreads out into a considerable expanse. This stretch is memorable in Irish history. In the year 765, the seventh of Niall, the Annals of the Four Masters recorded the various battles that took place in the east of Ireland. Among them they give an account of the battle of Bolg-Boinne, the belly of the Boyne, fought against the men of south Breagh. In that battle certain Irish chieftains were slain. The hostile belligerents appear to have been the Leinstermen. About a mile beyond the bridge of Glonard, towards the west, stand the ruins of the old fortress of Ticroghan, sometimes called Queen Mary's Castle. It can be seen from the Ballybogan road, upon the left bank of the river. Lord Ormonde retired to this castle from Trim in 1649, shortly before the siege of Drogheda. After a well-regulated defence, it was surrendered by Lady Fitzgarret in 1650 to Colonel Reynolds and Colonel Huetson. In its vicinity, some remains of the walls of an ancient church and a burial ground also exist. The burial ground formerly contained an antique font. Even within recent memory, portions of the walls of the castle have been torn down to supply building materials. De Lacy built a castle at Glonard, but if this was not it, no trace of it can be found.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The Beauties of the Boyne, and its Tributary, the Blackwater (1849), Wilde, William R. (William Robert), 1815-1876, Internet Archive beautiesofboynei00wild, Chapter 51 · source

In May 1642, Trim was nearly stormed at night by an Irish surprise party three thousand strong. A sentry gave the alarm. Sir Charles Coote hastily mustered seventeen men, sprang to horse, and charged through the gate with a vigour that sent the rebels flying. But in the darkness and confusion a shot, whether fired by friend or foe was never known, brought his career to an abrupt end. His tomb bore the inscription: "England's honour, Scotland's wonder, Ireland's terror here lies under."

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The life of James, first duke of Ormonde, 1610-1688; (vol. 1) (1912), Burghclere, Winifred Anne Henrietta Christina Herbert Gardner, Baroness, 1864-1933, Internet Archive lifeofjamesfirst01burg, Chapter 38 · source

As you pass through Trim, this town was once home to a celebrated image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, famed for performing wonders and miracles. The Four Masters say it used to heal the blind, the deaf, and the crippled, and persons affected with all kinds of diseases. In 1537 they burned it. The annals place this destruction alongside a wider ruin: monasteries broken and shattered across England and Ireland, their roofs and bells sold, the staff of Jesus in Dublin burned too, which had been performing miracles since the time of Saint Patrick. The Four Masters wrote that scarcely had there ever come so great a persecution from pagan Rome as this one, and that it was impossible to narrate its description unless by one who saw it.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The Diocese of Meath: Ancient and Modern (vol. 1) (1862), Cogan, Anthony, 1826-1872, Internet Archive dioceseofmeathan01cogaiala, Chapter 77 · source

A great Anglo-Norman castle, Trim Castle, built towards the close of the twelfth century by Hugo de Lacy, the greatest castle builder the Anglo-French ever produced. He built the great castle at Clonmacnois, another fine one in Carlow, and was building the castle of Durrow in the King's County when a young Irishman, who had evidently come prepared to kill him, struck off his head with a blow of an axe as he was stooping down to examine the work. Trim Castle was the finest structure of its kind that de Lacy ever raised. It must have been built before 1186, for he was killed in that year. Lewis' Irish Topography says the castle was built in 1220, but that is just the sort of mistake one would expect from books written by persons almost wholly unacquainted with the history of the country and entirely unacquainted with its language and native literature. The same publication says Trim was burned by Connor O'Melaghlin in 1108, and that over two hundred people were burned in the monastery. It would be interesting to know where Lewis got his information. He did not get it from any authentic source. The annals of the Four Masters, the annals of Clonmacnois, the annals of Inisfallan, the annals of Ulster, and the Chronicon Scottorum are all silent about it.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland (1897), Thomas O'Neill Russell, Project Gutenberg #39500, Chapter 12 · source