There is over eight-hundred years of history in Drogheda.
Built in the 1880's, St. Peter's Church has a neo-Gothic style to it, and in it a shrine to St. Oliver Plunkett,
one of Ireland's last martyrs. Oliver Plunkett was Archbishop of Armagh in the seventeenth century, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn in 1681.
His head was cut off and brought to Drogheda, and is now open to view in his shrine.
The town was at one time a fortified city, and some of this wall still stands today, the most notable being St. Laurence's Gate. It is regarded as the best sample of
barbican gate still in existence in Ireland. It was built in the thirteenth century and stands four stories tall, and has twin pillars,
and puts fear into the eyes of all those passing through.
Millmount is a fort on top of a hill which was at one time Drogheda's head defence. The hill was used as a Viking meeting place, and as a stronghold by the Normans,
and then was stormed by Cromwell in 1649. During the tensions of 1916 the barracks were transformed into a prison, and took harsh shelling during the Civil War in 1922.
