🌐 If The Past Could Talk

Donore & the Battle of the Boyne

📍 Meath🚶 6 stops🚶️ 3.91km⌛ ~70 min

A small Boyne Valley village with a 19th-century church, a monastic grange hidden beneath its streets, and — a short walk north — the 1690 battlefield and river crossing that changed the course of Irish and European history. Looking for things to do in Donore? Start here — no car, no ticket, no booking.

EcclesiasticalIndustrial & TransportRevolutionary & MilitaryMonastic Ireland
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Stops on This Trail

  1. St Mary's Church (Catholic Church of the Nativity of Our Lady)
  2. Donore Parochial House
  3. Donore's Early Medieval Settlement & Mellifont Grange
  4. Donore Hill — 1690 Rearguard Action
  5. Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre, Oldbridge House
  6. Boyne Crossing Point / Former Boyne Obelisk Site

For Schools

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