77-752: The Drogheda Steam Packet Company was founded in 1826 as the Drogheda Paddle Steamship Co . It provided shipping services between Drogheda and Liverpool from 1825 to 1902, in which year it was taken over by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway . The company was founded in July 1825 with the issue of 300 shares at £50 each. It was founded as the Drogheda Paddle Steamship Co. The board of directors included Robert Pentland, mayor of Drogheda, John Leslie Foster ,
154-522: A UEFA Cup place twice, in 2006 and 2007 . Since their formation, the club have won 11 major honours. In 2011, Drogheda became the sister club of Turkish club Trabzonspor due to their matching colours, and the town's history of Ottoman assistance during the Great Famine . In rugby union , the local Boyne RFC team was formed in 1997 from the amalgamation of Delvin RFC and Drogheda RFC. As of 2010 ,
231-667: A 24-hour emergency department for the populations of County Louth, County Meath and the North-East of Ireland. The hospital provides 340 beds, of which 30 are reserved for acute day cases. There are seven secondary schools situated in Drogheda. St. Joseph's secondary school in Newfoundwell is an all-boys school, as is St. Marys Diocesan School on Beamore Rd. The Sacred Heart School, situated in Sunnyside Drogheda,
308-582: A Jameson Whiskey brand; Cairnes Beer, founded locally and sold to Guinness; and Coca-Cola concentrate. Drogheda in recent years has seen growth in construction of apartments, commercial property and houses. Drogheda in 2024 is expected to receive over 1000 newly constructed homes varying between housing types and prices. Drogheda is located close to the M1 (E1 Euro Route 1) (main Dublin – Belfast motorway). The Mary McAleese Boyne Valley Bridge carries traffic from
385-525: A larger Arc. Drogheda Drogheda ( / ˈ d r ɒ h ə d ə , ˈ d r ɔː d ə / DRO -həd-ə , DRAW -də ; Irish : Droichead Átha [ˈd̪ˠɾˠɛhəd̪ˠ ˈaːhə] , meaning "bridge at the ford") is an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland, 43 km (27 mi) north of Dublin city centre. It is located on the Dublin–Belfast corridor on
462-484: A need to create authorities to administer public health and provide or regulate such services as sewerage, paving and water supply arose. The Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 created sanitary districts , based on the system already existing in England and Wales. Larger towns ( municipal boroughs and towns with commissioners under private acts or with a population of 6,000 or more) were created urban sanitary districts:
539-482: A two-tier system with county councils, along with borough , urban and rural district councils. Urban districts were created from the larger of the town commissioners towns, while the smaller towns retained their town commissioners, but remained in the rural districts for sanitary planning purposes. The creation of the new councils had a significant effect on Ireland as it allowed a much larger number of local people to take decisions affecting themselves. The county and
616-583: A way to "break up a combination of unionists with nationalists in Ireland" which he felt was "becoming too strong for even for a ministry with a majority of 150!" The introduction of democratic county councils along with a substantial rates subsidy was felt to be sure to placate all Irish members of the house. The government moved quickly, sending a copy of the English Local Government Act of 1888 to Sir Henry Robinson , vice-president of
693-630: Is an all-girls school. The Drogheda Grammar school, located on Mornington Road, St. Oliver's Community College , on Rathmullen Road, and Ballymakenny College, on the Ballymakenny Road, are mixed schools. Our Lady's College, in Greenhills is an all-girls school. There is also Drogheda Institute for Further Education (DIFE), a third-level college situated in Moneymore townland. The town's association football team, Drogheda United ,
770-508: Is at 9 Shop Street and The Drogheda Leader' s offices are at 13/14 West Street. The local radio station is LMFM , broadcasting on 95.8 FM. The headquarters of LMFM is on Marley's Lane on the south side of the town. Drogheda is a regional centre for medical care. Its main hospital is Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital , a public hospital located in the town. and is part of the Louth Meath Hospital Group . Facilities include
847-621: Is located on West Street, which is the main street in the town. In 1979, Pope John Paul II visited Drogheda as part of his five-stop tour of Ireland . He arrived less than a month after the IRA assassination of Lord Mountbatten , Queen Elizabeth 's cousin, in Mullaghmore . On 29 September 1979, he arrived in Dublin, where he gave his first mass. He then addressed 300,000 people in Drogheda, where he appealed "on his knees" to paramilitaries to end
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#1732765995970924-675: Is planned to be extended to Drogheda in the late 2020s or 30s as part of the DART+ program. Drogheda's bus station is located on Donore Road. Past Bus Éireann routes included the 184 to Garristown and 185 to Bellewstown . Currently there are buses to Monaghan and Dublin Drogheda was one of ten boroughs retained under the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840 . Under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 ,
1001-602: Is the last bridging point on the River Boyne before it enters the Irish Sea . The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Newgrange is located 8 km (5.0 mi) west of the town. Drogheda was founded as two separately administered towns in two different territories: Drogheda-in- Meath (i.e. the Lordship and Liberty of Meath , from which a charter was granted in 1194) and Drogheda-in-Oriel (or ' Uriel ', as County Louth
1078-715: The 1920 Irish local elections . After the partition of Ireland in 1920–22, the situation evolved differently in the Irish Free State ( Ireland from 1937, Republic of Ireland from 1949) and Northern Ireland . In the Irish Free State, rural districts were abolished by the Local Government Act 1925 (they remained in County Dublin until abolished under the Local Government (Dublin) Act 1930 ). Urban districts were renamed "towns" by
1155-611: The Dublin Castle administration , who had decided to use the money to fund poor law reform and a new Agricultural Board. On 18 May the Irish Unionist MPs wrote to the government informing them that they would withdraw their support unless the rating grant was introduced. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , Lord Cadogan , held talks with the Treasury and hit upon the idea of introducing the local government reforms as
1232-985: The English Pale in the medieval period. It frequently hosted meetings of the Irish Parliament at that time. According to R.J. Mitchell in John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester , in a spill-over from the War of the Roses the Earl of Desmond and his two youngest sons (still children) were executed there on Valentine's Day 1468 on orders of the Earl of Worcester , the Lord Deputy of Ireland . It later came to light (for example in Robert Fabyan's The New Chronicles of England and France ), that Elizabeth Woodville,
1309-635: The Irish Free State and Northern Ireland . The Act led to the modification of a number of county boundaries. This was for several reasons: The extents of the new administrative counties and county boroughs, which came into effect on 18 April 1899, were defined by orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland . There were no changes to the boundaries of the counties of Cavan , Cork , Donegal , Fermanagh , Kerry , Kildare , King's County (now Offaly ), Leitrim , Limerick , Longford , Meath , Monaghan , and Tyrone ; nor to those of
1386-569: The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 . Attempts to bring about similar reforms in Ireland were delayed because of the civil unrest caused by the Plan of Campaign . The government argued that before they could bring in administrative reforms, law and order should be restored. Accordingly, Arthur Balfour , the Chief Secretary for Ireland , introduced coercion acts to end the "agrarian outrages". Unionists, increasingly losing seats to members of
1463-509: The Local Government Act 2001 . The 2001 Act also renamed "county borough corporations" as "city councils". The introduction of a council–manager system in 1929–40 significantly changed the operation of county and city councils. The Local Government Reform Act 2014 abolished the tier of boroughs and towns within county areas and divided all counties (except those in County Dublin) into municipal districts . As of 17 July 2024
1540-532: The Local Government Board for Ireland . Robinson, who was on holiday, was instructed to decide how much of the existing legislation could be speedily adapted for Irish use. Within a week came the announcement that a bill was to be prepared. There would not be enough time in a single parliamentary session to debate all planned measures, so an omnibus power was granted to Lord Lieutenant to pass Orders in Council adapting previous acts to Ireland, including parts of
1617-569: The Queen's Speech of January 1897. It was also exceptional in that there was almost no popular demand for the reforms. It thus came as a complete surprise when Chief Secretary Balfour announced in May that he was preparing legislation. While he claimed that the extension to Ireland of the local government reforms already carried out in Great Britain had always been intended, the sudden conversion to
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#17327659959701694-900: The United Kingdom House of Commons , until its abolition under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 . It was thereafter represented by the South Louth from 1885 to 1918, by County Louth from 1918 to 1922, by Louth–Meath from 1921 to 1923, and by the Dáil constituency of Louth from 1923 to the present. The local newspapers are the Drogheda Leader and the Drogheda Independent and known locally as The Leader and D.I. . Both newspapers are published weekly. The office of The Drogheda Independent
1771-581: The motte-and-bailey castle , now known as Millmount Fort , which overlooks the town from a bluff on the south bank of the Boyne and which was probably erected by the Norman Lord of Meath, Hugh de Lacy , sometime before 1186. The wall on the east side of Rosemary Lane, a back-lane which runs from St. Laurence Street towards the Augustinian Church, is the oldest stone structure in Drogheda. It
1848-459: The violence in Ireland : "Now I wish to speak to all men and women engaged in violence. I appeal to you, in language of passionate pleading. On my knees I beg you to turn away from the paths of violence and to return to the ways of peace. You may claim to seek justice. I too believe in justice and seek justice. But violence only delays the day of justice. Violence destroys the work of justice. Further violence in Ireland will only drag down to ruin
1925-573: The "alternative policy" was in fact a way of solving a political crisis at Westminster . Obstruction by Irish members of parliament and a number of English MPs was causing a legislative backlog. Landlords, already angered by the 1896 Land Act, were enraged by the refusal of the Treasury to extend the agricultural rating grant to Ireland. In fact, the failure to introduce the grant was largely due to there being no effective local government system to administer it. Instead, an equivalent sum had been given to
2002-450: The (English) Municipal Corporations Acts 1882 and 1893 and Local Government Acts 1888 and 1894 , and the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 . This use of secondary legislation rather than primary legislation was controversial, but Irish nationalists accepted it as the price of getting the bill passed. The 1898 Act brought in a mixed system of government, with county boroughs independent of county administration, and elsewhere
2079-441: The 17th century. Drogheda is an ancient town that has a growing tourism industry. It has a UNESCO World Heritage site, Newgrange , located 8 km (5.0 mi) to the west of the town centre. Other tourist sites in the area include: There are several international companies based in the Drogheda area. Local employers include Coca-Cola International Services, State Street International Services, Natures Best, Yapstone Inc,
2156-664: The 1880s the issue of local government reform in Ireland was a major political issue, involving both Irish politicians and the major British political parties. Questions of constitutional reform, land ownership and nationalism all combined to complicate matters, as did splits in both the Liberal Party in 1886 and the Irish Parliamentary Party in 1891. Eventually, the Conservative government of Lord Salisbury found it politically expedient to introduce
2233-708: The Drogheda Port Company a commercial enterprise replaced them. In 1825, the Drogheda Steam Packet Company was formed in the town, providing shipping services to Liverpool . In 1837, the population of Drogheda area was 17,365 people, of whom 15,138 lived in the town. Drogheda's coat of arms features St. Laurence's Gate with three lions, and a ship emerging from either side of the barbican . The town's motto Deus praesidium, mercatura decus translates as "God our strength, merchandise our glory". The star and crescent emblem in
2310-546: The Drogheda Port Company, Glanbia and Flogas (only Flogas Terminals since 2025) Drogheda also has a history of brewing and distilling, with companies Jameson Whiskey , Coca-Cola , Guinness , Jack Daniel's all having previously produced (or still producing) their products in or near the town. These include the Boann distillery and brewery, Slane Whiskey (a Jack Daniel's-owned company), Listoke House, Dan Kellys (cider), and Jack Codys. The town formerly distilled Prestons whiskey,
2387-710: The Gate", a community-run event led by uilleann piper Darragh Ó Heiligh, next to Saint Laurence's Gate in the centre of Drogheda. Drogheda Arts Festival, a mix of music, live performance and street entertainment, is held over the May Bank Holiday weekend. October 2006 saw the opening of the Highlanes Gallery , the town's first dedicated municipal art gallery. It is located in the former Franciscan Church and Friary on St. Laurence Street. The gallery houses Drogheda's municipal art collection, which dates from
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2464-500: The Irish National League at elections of guardians, also sought to delay implementation. Balfour announced on 10 August 1891 that local government legislation would be introduced in the next parliamentary session. The announcement was met with protests from Unionists and landlords who predicted that the new authorities would be disloyal and would monopolise their power to drive them out of the country. Balfour, despite
2541-472: The Irish parliament in 1494. The earliest known town charter is that granted to Drogheda-in-Meath by Walter de Lacy in 1194. In the 1600s, the name of the town was also spelled "Tredagh" in keeping with the common pronunciation, as documented by Gerard Boate in his work Irelands' Natural History . In c. 1655 it was spelled "Droghedagh" on a map by William Farriland. Drogheda was an important walled town in
2618-610: The Local Government (Boundaries) (Town Elections) Regulations 1994. The 2007–2013 Meath County Development Plan recognises the Meath environs of Drogheda as a primary growth centre on a par with Navan . The town was selected to host Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann for two years in 2018 and 2019. The town is situated in an area which contains a number of archaeological monuments dating from the Neolithic period onwards, of which
2695-519: The M1, across the River Boyne , three km (1.9 mi) west of the town. It was opened on 9 June 2003 and is the longest cable-stayed bridge in Ireland. The town's postcode, or eircode , is A92. Drogheda acquired rail links to Dublin in 1844, Navan in 1850 and Belfast in 1852. Passenger services between Drogheda and Navan were ended in 1958, however the line remains open for freight (Tara Mines/Platin Cement) traffic. In 1966 Drogheda station
2772-486: The MP for County Louth , Blayney T. Balfour , St. George Smith, James McCann, Patrick Ternan, Nathaniel Hill, Patrick Boylan, John Woolsey and William Rodger. On 13 November 1826, PS Town of Drogheda arrived from Scotland. She made her maiden voyage to Liverpool on 26 November in 14 hours. Until 1829 a weekly service was operated sailing from Drogheda on Fridays and returning on Tuesdays under its master, Captain M. Ownes. She
2849-514: The area became an urban district , while retaining the style of a borough corporation. Drogheda Borough Corporation became a borough council in 2002. On 1 June 2014, the borough council was dissolved and the administration of the town was amalgamated with Louth County Council . It retains the right to be described as a borough. The chair of the borough district uses the title of mayor, rather than Cathaoirleach. The mayor, elected in June 2019 for
2926-550: The area concerned about a potential further decline in customer footfall. But the issue has come up for debate again. When asked, Drogheda residents point out that a combination of expensive car-parking and high commercial rates had a push-pull effect on the town's centre. Shops were forced to close and at the same time shoppers brought their business to retail parks such as the Boyne Shopping Centre on Bolton Street. A substantial root-and-branch approach to renewal of
3003-407: The assizes judge. The money to pay for the presentments was raised by a "county cess" levied on landowners and occupiers in the county, a form of rate tax . A second tier of administrative division below the county was the barony . A similar system operated at this level, with the justices of the area empowered to meet in baronial presentment sessions to raise a cess to fund minor works. By 1880
3080-561: The county boroughs (previously counties corporate) of Cork , Dublin , Limerick , and Waterford . Changes elsewhere were as follows: Boundaries of Irish county constituencies at Westminster were not adjusted by the 1898 Act to align with the new administrative boundaries. Some were aligned by the Representation of the People Act 1918 , where the county divisions were being altered for other reasons; for example Kilculliheen
3157-477: The crest of the coat of arms is mentioned as part of the mayor's seal by D'Alton (1844). In 2010, Irish president Mary McAleese, in a speech delivered during an official visit to Turkey, stated that the star and crescent had been added in the aftermath of the Great Famine as gratitude for food supplies donated by the Ottoman Sultan , which had arrived at Drogheda by ship. Irish press quickly pointed out
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3234-648: The east coast of Ireland, mostly in County Louth but with the south fringes of the town in County Meath , 40 km (25 mi) north of Dublin city centre. Drogheda had a population of 44,135 inhabitants in 2022, making it the eleventh largest settlement by population in all of Ireland , and the largest town in Ireland, by both population and area. It is the second largest in County Louth with 35,990 and sixth largest in County Meath with 8,145. It
3311-457: The establishment of county councils under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 , which saw all of Drogheda, including a large area south of the Boyne, become part of an extended County Louth. With the passing of the County of Louth and Borough of Drogheda (Boundaries) Provisional Order 1976, County Louth again grew larger at the expense of County Meath. The boundary was further altered in 1994 by
3388-405: The ethnic makeup of the town was 80.65% white total, including 67.81% white Irish and 12.57% other white people, 7.48% not stated, 5.7% Asian, 2.44% other and 3.73% black . Drogheda has hosted the national traditional music festival, Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann , in 2018 and again in 2019. Drogheda is home to two brass bands: Drogheda Brass Band and Lourdes Brass Band. In 2014, the town hosted
3465-631: The existing local council became the urban sanitary authority. The remainder of the country was divided into rural sanitary districts. These were identical in area to poor law unions (less any part in an urban sanitary district), and the rural sanitary authority consisted of the poor law guardians for the area. The first proposals for elected county councils in Ireland were made by the Radical-Liberal Minister Joseph Chamberlain to Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone in 1885. The electorate had been enlarged by
3542-456: The history and archaeology of the town, John Bradley stated that "neither the documentary nor the archaeological evidence indicates that there was any settlement at the town prior to the coming of the Normans". The results of a number of often large-scale excavations carried out within the area of the medieval town appear to confirm this statement. One of the earliest structures in the town is
3619-835: The international summer Samba festival in which samba bands from around the world came to the town for three days of drumming and parades. The composer and member of Aosdána , Michael Holohan , has lived in Drogheda since 1983. His compositions have been performed and broadcast both at home and internationally. Career highlights in Drogheda include Cromwell 1994, 'Drogheda 800' (RTECO, Lourdes Church); The Mass of Fire 1995, 'Augustinian 700' (RTÉ TV live broadcast); No Sanctuary 1997 with Nobel Laureate and poet Seamus Heaney (Augustinian Church); Remembrance Sunday Service and Drogheda Unification 600 (RTE TV live broadcast, St Peter's Church of Ireland) and two major concerts with The Boyne Valley Chamber Orchestra at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in 2018 and 2019. Drogheda regularly hosts "Music at
3696-426: The land you claim to love and the values you claim to cherish." Two decades into the 21st century some of the historic core of Drogheda town has suffered urban decline. Some of the buildings have been derelict for some years and are in danger of collapse. There was a 2006 traffic plan for pedestrianisation of West Street. It was rejected at a vote of the elected councillors. They had come under pressure from traders in
3773-607: The large passage tombs of Newgrange , Knowth , and Dowth are probably the best known. The density of archaeological sites of the prehistoric and early Christian periods uncovered in the course of ongoing developments, (including during construction of the Northern Motorway or 'Drogheda Bypass'), have shown that the hinterland of Drogheda has been a settled landscape for millennia. Despite local tradition linking Millmount to Amergin Glúingel , in his 1978 study of
3850-421: The locality was proposed in "Westgate Vision: A Townscape Recovery Guide". The Westgate area of Drogheda is to be subject to a 10-year regeneration by Louth County Council. Drogheda has a hinterland of 70,000+ within a 15 km (9.3 mi) radius. According to the 2022 census , there were 44,135 people living in Drogheda town at that time. As of the 2011 census , non-Irish nationals accounted for 16.1% of
3927-465: The measures in 1898. The legislation was seen by the government as solving a number of problems: it softened demands for home rule from Nationalists, it eased the burden of agricultural rates on Unionist landlords, it created a more efficient poor law administration and it strengthened the Union by bringing English forms of local government to Ireland. Each county and county corporate of Ireland
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#17327659959704004-481: The members of the grand juries and baronial sessions were still overwhelmingly Unionist and Protestant, and therefore totally unrepresentative of the majority of the population of the areas they governed. This was because they had represented and were chosen from the actual taxpayers since the Middle Ages , and retiring members were normally replaced by similar taxpayers from the same social class. The understanding
4081-934: The men's 1st XV team were playing in the Leinster J1 1st division. The following people have received the Freedom of the Town of Drogheda. Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 ( 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that established a system of local government in Ireland similar to that already created for England, Wales and Scotland by legislation in 1888 and 1889 . The Act effectively ended landlord control of local government in Ireland. From
4158-422: The new government as "killing home rule with kindness". The British Government passed three major pieces of Irish legislation in four years: apart from the Local Government Act, these were the Land Law (Ireland) Act 1896 ( 59 & 60 Vict. c. 47) and the Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act 1899 . The local government legislation was not originally part of the government's programme announced in
4235-511: The opposition, made it clear that he intended to proceed. With the Irish Parliamentary Party split into "Parnellite" and "anti-Parnellite" factions, he was encouraged to believe that the bill could be used to destroy the demand for Home Rule and further splinter the Nationalist movement. When the bill was introduced to parliament early in 1892, it was clear that the Unionists had successfully watered down many of its provisions by securing safeguards on their hold on local government. The provisions of
4312-435: The period 2019–2020, was Paul Bell (Labour). As of the 2019 Louth County Council election , the borough district of Drogheda contains the local electoral areas of Drogheda Urban (6 seats) and Drogheda Rural (4 seats), electing 10 seats to the council. The parliamentary borough of Drogheda returned two MPs to the Irish House of Commons until 1801. Under the Act of Union , the parliamentary borough returned one MP to
4389-412: The population, compared with a national average of 12%. Polish nationals (1,127) were the largest group, followed by Lithuanian nationals (1,044 people). As of the 2016 census , 17.4% of the population were non-Irish nationals, with 676 people from the UK, 1,324 Polish nationals, 1,014 Lithuanians, 1,798 people from elsewhere in the EU, and 1,400 with other (non-EU) nationalities. As of the 2022 census,
4466-435: The proposal to his new Conservative allies, who won the 1886 United Kingdom general election shortly afterwards. In 1888 Chamberlain again called for democratically elected county councils in Ireland, as a part of a crash programme of state-funded public works, in his book A Unionist Policy for Ireland . Directly elected county councils were introduced to England and Wales by the Local Government Act 1888 and to Scotland by
4543-439: The proposed legislation were: The "safeguards" to protect the Unionist minority were: The bill was rejected by almost all Irish parliamentarians, with the support of only a handful of Ulster Liberal Unionists. While Balfour hoped to make the legislation acceptable by tabling amendments, this was rejected by Nationalists who hoped to see a change to a pro-Home Rule Liberal administration at the imminent general election . The bill
4620-424: The queen consort , was implicated in the orders given. The parliament was moved to the town in 1494 and passed Poynings' Law , the most significant legislation in Irish history, a year later. This effectively subordinated the Irish Parliament's legislative powers to the King and his English Council . The town was besieged twice during the Irish Confederate Wars . In the second siege of Drogheda , an assault
4697-405: The recent Representation of the People Act 1884 . Gladstone and Charles Stewart Parnell , leader of the Irish National League , preferred to legislate for Irish Home Rule. However, the First Home Rule Bill was defeated in the House of Commons in 1886. Chamberlain, briefly the President of the Local Government Board in 1886, then left the Liberals to form the Liberal Unionist Party and brought
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#17327659959704774-402: The rest shipped to Barbados ." The Earldom of Drogheda was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1661. The Battle of the Boyne , 1690, occurred some 6 km (3.7 mi) west of the town, on the banks of the River Boyne , at Oldbridge. The Tholsel in West Street was completed in 1770. In 1790, Drogheda Harbour Commissioners were established. They remained in place until 1997 when
4851-451: The story was a myth, with a local historian calling it 'nothing short of sheer nonsense'. However, later evidence, including a letter displayed at the office of the European Commission, confirms that Turkey came to the aid of the Irish during the Famine. In 1921, the preserved severed head of Saint Oliver Plunkett , who was executed in London in 1681, was put on display in St. Peter's (Catholic) Church , where it remains today. The church
4928-409: The sub-county District Councils created a political platform for proponents of Home Rule , displacing Unionist influence in many areas. The enfranchisement of local electors allowed the development of a new political class, creating a significant body of experienced politicians who would enter national politics in Ireland in the 1920s, and increase the stability of the transitions to the parliaments of
5005-464: The unrepealed parts of the 1898 act in the Republic are sections 6(a), 8, 29, 52, 54, 69(1)–(2), 80, 89, 101(2), 101(4), 102(1)–(3), 109, 110(1), 110(2)(a), and 124, and Schedule 1 parts 3 and 4. In Northern Ireland, STV was abolished in 1922. The two-tier county–district system was retained until the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 replaced it with a system of 26 unitary districts from 1973. Some elected councils had been dissolved in
5082-406: Was accordingly abandoned. Following three years of Liberal government, the Conservative– Liberal Unionist coalition formed a Unionist government following the 1895 general election . Gerald Balfour , brother of Arthur , and nephew of the new Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury , was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland on 4 July 1895. He soon made his mark when he summarised the Irish policy of
5159-431: Was acquired in 1844, the first iron-hulled vessel. This was followed by PS Brian Boroimhe and PS St. Patrick in 1846. In 1902 the assets of the company were taken over by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway for the sum of £80,000 (equivalent to £10,970,364 in 2023), House Flag as seen in the 1882 edition of the Lloyd's Codes Of Distinguishing Flags Of The Steamship Owners Of the United Kingdom. Another version shows
5236-414: Was administered before the 1898 Act by a grand jury . These bodies were made up of major landowners appointed by the assizes judge of the county. As well as their original judicial functions the grand juries had taken on the maintenance of roads, bridges and asylums and the supervision of other public works. The grand jury made proposals for expenditure known as "presentments" which required the approval of
5313-399: Was completed in 1234 as the west wall of the first castle guarding access to the northern crossing point of the Boyne. A later castle, circa 1600, called Laundy's Castle stood at the junction of West Street and Peter's Street. On Meathside, the Castle of Drogheda or The Castle of Comfort was a tower house castle on the south side of the Bull Ring. It served as a prison, and as a sitting of
5390-420: Was divided into poor law unions (PLUs), each consisting of a geographical area based on a workhouse . The union boundaries did not correspond to those of any existing unit, with many rural areas crossing into two or more counties. The unions were administered by Boards of Guardians . The boards were in part directly elected, with one guardian elected for each electoral division . With the growth of population
5467-438: Was employed until 1846, when she was sold. In 1829, the company temporarily chartered the PS Liffey and PS Mersey from the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company to increase the sailings to three per week. These were sent back when the new ship, PS Fair Trader was delivered at the end of the year. Further expansion in the 1830s saw the arrival of PS Green Isle the PS Irishman and PS Grainne Ueile . PS Faugh-a-Ballagh
5544-625: Was formed in 1919, and their home matches are played at Head In The Game Park . Nicknamed "The Drogs", they currently compete in the League of Ireland Premier Division , which they won for the first time in 2007 . The club achieved success by winning the FAI Cup in 2005 , and back to back Setanta Sports Cup successes in 2006 and 2007 , along with the 2012 EA Sports Cup . The Drogs came close to UEFA Champions League qualification on 2 occasions, in 2008 and 2013 . They also narrowly missed out on
5621-514: Was made on the town from the south, the tall walls breached, and the town was taken by Oliver Cromwell on 11 September 1649, as part of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland and it was the site of a massacre of the Royalist defenders. In his own words after the siege of Drogheda, "When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head, and every tenth man of the soldiers killed and
5698-698: Was renamed "MacBride". Drogheda railway station opened on 26 May 1844. The station has direct trains on the Enterprise northbound to Dundalk , Newry , Portadown , Lisburn and Belfast Central , and southbound to Dublin Connolly . 1 Train a day to Belfast skips Drogheda A wide variety of Iarnród Éireann commuter services connect southbound to Balbriggan , Malahide , Howth Junction , Dublin Connolly , Tara Street , Dublin Pearse , Dún Laoghaire , Bray , Greystones , Wicklow , and Wexford . The DART
5775-491: Was that larger taxpayers had a greater motive to see that the tax money was spent properly. The Representation of the People Act 1884 created a much larger electorate that had very different needs and inevitably wanted to elect local representatives from outside a narrow social élite. By now public works such as roads and bridges were being funded increasingly by central government via the Office of Public Works . In 1838 Ireland
5852-469: Was then known). The division came from the twelfth-century boundary between two Irish kingdoms, colonised by different Norman interests, just as the River Boyne continues to divide the town between the dioceses of Armagh and Meath . In 1412 , these two towns were united, and Drogheda became a county corporate , styled as "the County of the Town of Drogheda". Drogheda continued as a county borough until
5929-489: Was transferred from Waterford City to South Kilkenny , but Ardnaree remained in North Sligo rather than East Mayo . Under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1919 , the electoral system for local elections in Ireland was changed to single transferable vote (STV) in multi-member districts. This had been used in the election to Sligo Corporation in 1919 (provided under separate local legislation ), and then for
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