Kells area - Historic gems in Ireland's Ancient East
6 sites of interest in the Kells area
St. Kieran's Well, St. Colmcille's House, Round Tower, Market Cross, Spire of Loyd, Maudlin Bridge
Kells Ireland - Ann's place
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Slane in County Meath - one of Ireland's Hidden Gems
A glimpse at Slane in County Meath, Ireland. A beautiful village steeped in heritage at the heart of the Boyne Valley and Ireland's Ancient East. Only 10 minutes drive from Newgrange - A World Heritage Site and 45 minutes from Dublin City.
MCMR Ireland: Slane to Kells, R163
A journey through County Meath from Slane to Kells along the R163.
Take a Tour of Ireland's Ancient East | Vagabond Tours of Ireland
Discover eastern Ireland. From the wilderness of the Wicklow Mountains to the perfection of Waterford Crystal and the heritage of ancient Kilkenny; From the gourmet delights of Kinsale, to Cobh’s tragic history of Ireland’s emigration or the grandeur of Ireland’s greatest stately homes, this six day journey through one of Ireland’s most off-the-beaten-track regions is perfect for visitors who want to see a whole new side of Ireland’s ancient east.
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Michael Fox examines a Sheela Na Gig Stone Carving near Ardath, County Meath, Ireland
Sheela Na Gig Carvings, sometimes seen as the female equivalent of the Green Man Carvings, are found all over the UK and indeed other parts of Europe, but more are found in Ireland than anywhere else.
Michael Fox operates Boyne Valley Tours
BoyneValleyTours.com
We are arranging a Harmony Journeys Sacred Sites of Ireland Tour; In Search of Gaelic Myth 16th - 22nd September. For details of the itinerary and costing see
Meath, Ireland's Heritage Capital
Meath Tourism is the offical tourism body for County Meath, Ireland's heritage capital. Rich in history dating back over 8,000 years, there's plenty to discover including: Newgrange(older than the pyramids of Egypt), Trim Castle (where Braveheart was filmed), Hill of Tara (once the seat of the high kings of Ireland).Whether you want to enjoy a round of Golf, bet at our numerous race courses or relax at the numerous gardens, there's something for everyone. Visit meathtourism.ie for more info.
The Kells Trilogy: 1st July 2015
: Meath Mumtrepreneur Seeks Crowdfunding for Tourism Initiative
Kells woman Lucy O'Reilly has launched a community crowd-funding scheme on kickstarter.com, with the aim of raising €3,000 to boost tourism and visitor numbers in Meath. The Crowdfunder ends on 1st July, 2015.
The enterprising local mum is a tour guide who established The Kells Experience to introduce visitors to the heritage and ancient history of Kells and the surrounding Boyne Valley area.
The Kells Experience provides memorable and inspiring walking tours of the ancient monastic sites, and visual recreations of local heritage, as well as interactive courses, including a children’s summer camp.
Aiming to sustain The Kells Experience as a long term tourism venture, and to boost jobs and visitor numbers, Lucy O'Reilly is now asking local people and businesses to make a contribution to the project, starting from as little as €5, via the cultural crowd-funding website, kickstarter.com.
As with many community crowd-funded schemes, contributors not only help support community development, but also enjoy benefits including regular newsletters and gifts such as Kells Experience pens, greeting cards, and placemats, as well as free tours, and a credit on the website.
The €3,000 investment target will mainly fund marketing of The Kells Experience, Lucy O'Reilly says, adding that many of the town’s businesses are keen to support The Kells Experience crowd-funding initiative, as a means to boost trade in the local area, as well as showcasing the beautiful monastic town.
“Kells has so much to offer the visitor, not least a fascinating cultural heritage. Government is to invest in promoting tourism on the east coast in the coming years, so it is important that Kells has the resources in place now to welcome visitors, and to help grow the local economy”, Lucy O'Reilly, founder of The Kells Experience says.
Combined with reinvested tours revenue, the crowd-funding will help the tourism enterprise to source staff uniforms, authentic monastic and medieval clothing to add to the Kells visitor experience, wireless audio equipment for visitors with hearing difficulty, and a regular Dublin coach service picking up tour groups from Dublin.
Operating from a renovated building on Market Street in Kells, the unique visitor experience showcases the town’s heritage sites including the stone oratory, Saint Colmcille's House, Kells Abbey and round tower, and the ancient high crosses, while explaining the town’s fascinating ancient history, from Colmcille and the Book of Kells, to the Tower of Lloyd, and the many striking pre-historic monoliths the Meath countryside boasts.
Longer-term projects include research and production of The Kells Trilogy, a digital recreation of the royal, monastic, and medieval phases of the development of Kells.
Lucy O’Reilly is confident in creating one additional full-time job as well as part-time opportunities in the coming year, and is encouraging local individuals and business interests to access the Kickstarter website now, to help with fund-raising,
For media information contact;
Freeda McHugh, New Image Communications
Tel: 01 8259688 or 086 250 7478
Email: freeda@newimagecommunications.ie
For information on The Kells Experience;
Lucy O'Reilly, The Kells Experience - Memorable Tours in Ireland's Ancient East
Tel: 087 706 4421
Email: info@kellsexperience.ie
Tour Of Trim, County Meath, Ireland 1989 Part 1 of 2
A tour of of my fathers home town, Trim in Ireland. Filmed by my dad Chris and navigated by his sister Kathleen in 1989. All Rights Reserved.
Trim, Irish Baile Átha Troim (Ford of the Elder Bushes), market town and seat of County Meath, Ireland, on the River Boyne. It was important from ancient times and was the seat of a bishopric. St. Patrick is said to have founded a monastery there in 432; there are remnants of a 13th-century Augustinian abbey, two gates from the town walls, and extensive remains of Trim Castle, which was founded in 1173 and was incorporated in the 13th century into the largest Anglo-Norman fortress in Ireland. St. Patrick's Church (1499) with its castellated tower became a Church of Ireland.
MCMR Ireland: Kells to Trim
A journey through County Meath from Kells to Trim passing through the villages of Bohermeen and Cannistown.
The River Boyne - Trim, Co. Meath - Ireland
The River Boyne (Irish: An Bhóinn or Abhainn na Bóinne) is a river in Leinster, Ireland, the course of which is about 112 kilometres (70 mi) long. It rises at Trinity Well, Newberry Hall, near Carbury, County Kildare, and flows towards the Northeast through County Meath to reach the Irish Sea between Mornington, County Meath and Baltray, County Louth.
Salmon and trout can be caught in the river, which is surrounded by the Boyne Valley. It is crossed just west of Drogheda by the Boyne River Bridge that carries the M1 motorway and by the Boyne Viaduct that carries the Dublin-Belfast railway line to the east. The catchment area of the River Boyne is 2,695 km2.[1] The long term average flow rate of the River Boyne is 38.8 Cubic Metres per second (m3/s)[2]
Despite its short course, the Boyne has historical, archaeological and mythical connotations. The Battle of the Boyne, a major battle in Irish history, took place along the Boyne near Drogheda in 1690 during the Williamite war in Ireland. It passes near the ancient city of Trim, Trim Castle, the Hill of Tara (the ancient capital of the High King of Ireland), Navan, the Hill of Slane, Brú na Bóinne (an ancient temple), Mellifont Abbey, and the medieval city of Drogheda. In the Boyne Valley can also be found other historical and archaeological monuments, like Loughcrew, Kells, Celtic crosses, castles, and more.
This river has been known since ancient times. The Greek geographer Ptolemy drew a map of Ireland in the 2nd century which included the Boyne, which he called Βουουινδα (Bououinda), and somewhat later Giraldus Cambrensis called it Boandus. In Irish mythology it is said that the river was created by the goddess Boann ('queen' or 'goddess'), according to F. Dinneen, lexicographer of the Irish Gaelic language, and Boyne is an anglicised form of the name. In other legends, it was in this river where Fionn mac Cumhail captured Fiontán, the Salmon of Knowledge. The Meath section of the Boyne was also known as Smior Fionn Feidhlimthe [3] (the 'marrow of Fionn Feilim').
high crosses of monasterboice
high crosses of monasterboice
Boyne Ramparts Walk Navan To Slane
Historic Scenic Trim Co Meath Ireland
We are down at the Knightsbridge Golf Hotel Trim Co Meath for a few days. This is a glimpse at what you will find in and around the town of Trim. A small town of around 9000. The town has a lot of history, a large Norman castle, monastery, abbey, old graveyard, several other outstanding aged buildings, wonderful walks and scenery and great shopping and restaurants. Come and discover it for yourself.
Trim (Irish: Baile Átha Troim, meaning town at the ford of elderflowers)[3] is a town in County Meath, Ireland. It is situated on the River Boyne and has a population of 8,268. The town is noted for Trim Castle - the largest Cambro-Norman castle in Ireland. It was once the county town but today that honour belongs to Navan.
Ancient Ireland The Emerald Isle Tour
Ancient Ireland The Emerald Isle Tour
The lands of our ancestors the Neolithic Stone Builders stretched from the Scottish isles and down the west coast of England following the ancient trading route south and spreading out east into England and west into Ireland. The ancient sites of County Meath are some of the most significant in the World and on this ancient and mystical sites of Ireland tour, we will visit the famous Newgrange and Knowth chambered tombs as well as the Loughcrewe chambered cairns and the Fourknocks passage tomb all in the Boyne Valley. The Hill of Tara, Ireland’s ancient seat of Kings, will be an awe-inspiring experience that fires the imagination. We will call at Fore with its unexpected collection of ancient buildings and peculiar myths (Town of the Seven Wonders), hiding away within the surrounding hills, before calling at the historic town of Kells, the Celtic home of the ‘Book of Kells’.
Our ancient and mystical sites tour of the Emerald Isle will be based in the historic town of Athlone on the banks of the river Shannon and in the geographic centre of Ireland, where we will be staying in the Shamrock Lodge Hotel, on a bed and breakfast basis. On the first day we will call at the wonderful collection of ecclesiastic buildings that form the ancient Monastic site of Clonmacnoise on the outskirts of Athlone. We will also have a well- deserved free day in Athlone with its picturesque riverside views and walks, shops, bars and restaurants all providing the authentic Irish atmosphere and of course the ‘Craic’.
We will spend a day visiting the Carrowmore Ancient Cemetery, in the county of Sligo, the location of the best collection of megalithic sites in Ireland and then the amazing remote hill top cairns of Carrowkeel. These two extensive sites themselves are enough to provide an insight into the lives of our ancient cousins from the Neolithic Age. Another full day will be spent exploring the wide range of ancient and historical sites on the beautiful open limestone landscapes of the Burren National Park, including ancient abbey and monastic settlements and Neolithic dolmens and chambered tombs and much more on this grand mystical sites tour of ancient Ireland.
Drive into Slane , Ireland
A little video made when driving into Slane Village, Ireland.
Pics and video by John and me, music covered by THE G- STRINGS : North and South and Does this train stop in mersey side.
Kells School
RTE’s Today show pays a visit to a primary school in Kells Co. Meath where the pupils are thinking green & getting active !
Effernock, Dublin Road, Trim, Co. Meath
Quillsen proudly presents to the summer market this picture perfect Parnellite cottage of great character that dates to 1895 and presently makes a cosy home. Together with useful out-offices, the cottage is set on a level and rectangular shaped landscaped site of circa half an acre thus offering much untapped potential. Examination of the current Meath Co. Co. Trim Development Plan 2014-2020 indicates an A1 Existing Residential zoning for the property. Such designation should prove advantageous where one is planning to further develop the property for residential purposes with an extension or such like project. Indeed the present owner explored the possibility of redeveloping the property albeit their housing requirement is now alternatively satisfied. An architects impression of what such a development might look like had been prepared. Given its zoning, prime location and spacious site, this property offers huge potential and scope notwithstanding that it makes a comfortable home as-is.
Footage By: jcfdrones@gmail.com
Sacred Ireland Tour
Lighthouse Counseling and Wellness Center, Inc. is proud to announce that we will be hosting the Sacred Ireland study/tour February 9-15, 2013. Please go to our website lcwcnj.com for more details and to download our brochure and/or a registration form! Enjoy =)
Visiting Oldcastle, Co Meath, Ireland. Town Ariel Tour View 2015
The small town of Oldcastle in Co Meath has a hidden vault of both modern and ancient discoveries for visitors.
Nestled below the famous loughcrew Hills which are home to 5.,500 year old Cairn Tombs Oldcastle has so much to offer visitors.. From Music festivals to local Arts and Crafts the area is packed with many un discovered Ancient places to find and visit.
The Famous Robot Lawn Mower started in Oldcastle Co Meath way back in 2003, AutoLawnMow Oldcastle, Co Meath is best known as the home of Futuristic Technologies in Robotics applications from Floor cleaning robots to Automatic window cleaners and automatic lawn mowers.
Take a minutes and explode the town of Oldcastle from the Air.