monuments meath

Donaghmore, site of an Early Christian settlement. A fine round tower from the tenth century remains. The doorway, twelve feet from the ground, has inclined jambs and a semicircular head; on the keystone is scultpured a figure of a crucified christ, and on each side of the architrave is a sculptured human head. There are also some remains of a 15th century church near by....

Ashborne is a thriving village. On the northern outskirts of the village is a monument to the only major incident of the 1916 Easter Rebellion to take place outside Dublin. This monument carries a plaque inscribed with a line from a poem by Thomas Ashe, the local schoolmaster at that time: 'Let me carry your cross for Ireland, Lord'. The monument has a dual image - on one side the figure is in the form of Christ on the other insurgent....

This column was erected in 1817 commemorating the Duke of Wellington who was educated in Trim, stood for Parliament for this area and later became the Prime Minister of England in 1828....

Consists of a large medieval cathedral, two monasteries and a small church. One of the monastries belonged to an order of crusading monks who took care of the sick and dying. Ss. Peter and Paul's cathedral as founded by Simon de Rochford and is the largest medieval cathedral in Ireland. The Priory of St. John the Baptist is the remains of a hospital which founded in the 18th Century by the crutched friars, an order originally established to nurse the crusaders and redeem Christian hostages....