Drogheda

Drogheda is renowned as a town of churches, many of them dating back to medieval times: St. Peter's and St. Mary's are two examples. The town is also home to the finest surviving Barbican in Ireland, St. Laurence's Gate, which was once part of the original thirteenth century town walls. Drogheda also holds the relicts of one of Ireland's most celebrated Martyrs, St. Oliver Plunkett, whose head can be viewed in St. Peters Church. He was hung, drawn and quartered, on the word of perjurer and spy, Titus Oates, for allegedly taking part in a 'Popish Plot' to murder King Charles II and re-establish Catholicism in England.