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drogheda's Usage Examples:

Drogheda was always considered by the English a place of much importance.

But there grew up a strong feeling of hostility between Drogheda versus Uriel and Drogheda versus Midiam, in consequence of trading vessels lading their cargoes in the latter or southern town, to avoid the pontage duty levied in the former or northern town.

In the earliest notices the town of Drogheda is called InverColpa or the Port of Colpa; the present name signifies "The Bridge over the Ford."

from its mouth in Drogheda Bay, and 312 m.

DROGHEDA, a municipal borough, seaport and market town, on the southern border of Co.

The railways leaving Dublin are the following: the Great Northern, with its terminus in Amiens Street, with suburban lines, and a main line running north to Drogheda, Dundalk and Belfast, with ramifications through the northern countries; the Great Southern ' Western (Kingsbridge terminus) to Kilkenny, Athlone and Cork; the Midland Great Western (Broadstone terminus), to Cavan, Sligo and Galway; the Dublin ' South-Eastern (Harcourt Street and Westland Row for Kingstown); and there is the North Wall station of the London ' North-Western, with the line known as the North Wall extension, connecting with the other main lines.

Dublin and Drogheda soon fell and James fled from Ireland.

Phelim and his followers committed much depredation in Ulster on the pretext of reducing the Scots; and he attempted without success to take Drogheda, being compelled by Ormonde to raise the siege in April 1642.

After the fall of Drogheda Cromwell sent a few troops to relieve Londonderry, and marched himself to Wexford, which he took on the 11th of October, and where similar scenes of cruelty were repeated; every captured priest, to use Cromwell's own words, being immediately "knocked on the head," though the story of the three hundred women slaughtered in the market-place has no foundation.

On the 10th of September he stormed Drogheda, and by his order the whole of its 2800 defenders were put to the sword without quarter.

drogheda's Meaning':

in 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell who massacred the Catholic inhabitants