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Drogheda (inhabited place) |
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| Lat: 53 43 08 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 53.7189 decimal degrees |
| Long: 006 20 52 W degrees minutes |
Long: -6.3478 decimal degrees |
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Note: The seaport is situated on the Boyne River, near its mouth on the Irish Sea, in the county of Louth in northeastern Ireland. It was a Danish stronghold from the 8th to the 11th century. It was taken for England by the Anglo-Normans in 1170. The Irish princes of Leinster and Ulster submitted to Richard II here in 1394. Oliver Cromwell stormed the town and massacred the population in 1649. Among its ancient and medieval remains are the St. Lawrence Gate and the West Gate of the old fortifications, the tower of a Dominican friary founded 1224, the arch of an Augustinian abbey founded 1206, and St. Peter's Church, which holds a shrine, containing the embalmed head of the archbishop of Armagh, St. Oliver Plunket, who was martyred in London in 1681. The seaport is a center for salmon fishing on the River Boyne and ships out coal and agricultural products. Its estimated 2003 population was 28,3000. |
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Drogheda (inhabited place) (P) |
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