Description
This day trip is part of the 4 day exploration of the Boyne Valley which is this year’s annual outing of the Society. Each day is priced at €20. A special price of €15 per day is available if you book on line and if you book all four days a discount will be applied at the checkout which reduces the cost to €50 per person. These reduced prices are only available to members who book through the web site.
Members should arrange to share cars for this trip and those who can offer lifts should indicate this by giving their name, number of places and a contact phone no when booking (in the Order Notes box). The details will be circulated to other booked members.
Day trip to Monasterboice & Mellifont with Roger Stalley
From Wikipedia:
The Monasterboice (Irish: Mainistir Bhuithe) ruins are the remains of an early Christian monastic settlement in County Louth in Ireland, north of Drogheda. The ruins are a national monument of Ireland and also give their name to the local village and to a civil parish of the same name.
The site includes the remains of two churches built in the 14th century or later and an earlier round tower, but it is most famous for its high crosses. The round tower is about 28 metres tall, and is in very good condition. It was likely built shortly after 968 and damaged in a fire in 1098.[3] The three high crosses date from the 10th century and form part of the scriptural group (showing biblical scenes).
Mellifont Abbey (Irish: An Mhainistir Mhór, literally ‘the Big Monastery’), was a Cistercian abbey located close to Drogheda in County Louth, Ireland. It was the first abbey of the order to be built in Ireland.[2] In 1152, it hosted the Synod of Kells-Mellifont. After its dissolution in 1539, the abbey became a private manor house. This saw the signing of the Treaty of Mellifont in 1603 and served as William of Orange‘s headquarters in 1690 during the Battle of the Boyne.
