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Scholars Townhouse Hotel Drogheda
Situated in Drogheda, Scholars Townhouse is close to Magdalene Tower, Highlanes Gallery, and St. Peter's Church. Also nearby are St. Mary's Bridge and Millmount Museum.
Originally built in 1867, this charming town house has been tastefully renovated in a modern style, whilst retaining its historic charm, with stained glass windows and high coved ceilings.
Once used as a Christian Brothers house, Scholars now provides all the facilities and features of modern accommodation. It occupies a privileged position in the centre of the historic town of Drogheda, County Louth, only 20 minutes from Dublin airport via the nearby M1 motorway.
Local tourist attractions vary from an array of links golf courses and freshwater fishing to famous historic sites as Newgrange, the Hill of Tara, Slane Castle, Millmount Tower and the Battle of the Boyne.
Drogheda history - Millmount Museum
Short simple documentary about Millmount museum in historic Drogheda, Ireland. How it started, survives and looks to the future. Plus, the Old Drogheda Society. Filmed and edited in November 2009 by Denise Gough and David Mc Connon. With thanks to Deirdre Howard Russell and staff at Millmount Museum.
IRELAND VLOG: Part 2 - Drogheda United memory lane, sights, and a local train to Dublin
Part two, and I reminisce about a visit to Drogheda in 1986 to see a football match between Drogheda United and Sligo Rovers. The skies opened and I never got a chance to see the town, now I do, and then catch a local train to Dublin.
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Drogheda sights Blue Sky by Ikson
Drogheda-Dublin train Late (official) by Ikson
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Our Towns Stories St Peters Church Drogheda
It is with great pleasure that we can finally let you see a very special project we've been working on over the last few months.
St. Peter's Church - The Shrine of St. Oliver Plunkett is the first of four videos in the Our Town Stories series. This is a series of videos that we here at Copter View developed from concept thanks to funding from Louth County Council. The aim of the commissioned series, is to help raise awareness and promote the heritage of Drogheda under the Irelands Ancient East campaign and hopefully attract more visitors to the town.
St. Peter's Church was a very interesting video for us to shoot as a lot of the footage was shot using our Drones inside the church!! This was very challenging but well worth it for the footage it produced. To the best of our knowledge, this was only the 2nd time in Ireland where a Drone was flown in a church of this scale.
So sit back, click the HD button and enjoy this first episode of the series. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th episodes will be rolled out in the coming months so watch this space.
Make sure to share the video and let the world see the wonderful heritage that Drogheda has to offer!
Deserted Ireland - Abandoned ex-military base
An old linen mill that was transformed into a, then, state of the art army base for the troubles in northern Ireland. Was once dubbed the busiest heliport in Northern Ireland before shutting down in 2002 as the redevelopment would cost too much.
Bell Ring at St Peter's Drogheda 3rd November 2012
A group of bell ringers gathered from Dublin and Drogheda to ring for the Drogheda service of Remembrance in St Peter's Church
Tesco Fashion Show TLT Drogheda
Tesco Fashion Show
TLT Drogheda
15th May 2014
In aid of A Chance for Alice
Abandoned Magazine Army Fort in the Phoenix Park Dublin From Above
In association with Razor Cuts Productions Copter View Ireland are proud to show you the first ever close range fly over of this abandoned Army barracks in the Phoenix Park Dublin. Credit to Razor Cut productions ( for putting this piece together. All comments and shares are welcome. Please check us out on Facebook @ for more aerial views of the sights around Ireland.
- Abandoned House - County Kerry
Captain Tobias Black had been warned to avoid any damage to the ancient cairn which stood on his newly purchased Woodville* estate. The ignorant Captain Black, however, took an axe and swiftly cut down the May tree whose gnarled roots had pushed through the cairn’s stones over countless years. Local labourers wanted nothing to do with the construction of the Captain’s new mansion so it was arranged that a team of workers and craftsmen would be dispatched from England. Perhaps as a sign of the sorry events which would later occur, their vessel was caught in the Great Storm of 1839 and all crew and passengers drowned. Many months later, another group of workers eventually arrived at Woodville* and soon the cairn and the ancient tomb within it, were obliterated, making way for the mansion house to begin to take shape. The workers, however, never seemed to stay for more than a few months and construction was painfully slow. It was a little over a decade later that Woodville House* was finally complete. Just as the Great Famine was taking grip on the surround countryside, Captain Black moved in with his new bride, Elizabeth. The Great Famine brought terrible hardship to his tenants. The Captain, however, ruthlessly enforced his collection of rent and anybody who could not pay was, promptly, evicted. More than a dozen times, groups of famished men and women with crying children were reduced to seeking refuge in hedges and under trees. Woodville House and its occupants became a focus for community hatred and it wasn’t long before the tenants formed a plan. A hag was brought from the country and employed to practise her foul arts and bring an end to Captain Tobias Black. The first recorded deaths were Elizabeth and her unborn child; she apparently tripped on the staircase and broke her neck in the fall. The Captain took his own life three days later. His body was found swinging from a balcony, his head almost severed by his makeshift noose. The Captain’s two brothers, Edward and Charles, arranged for the bodies to be interred into what would become the Woodville Graveyard, a few hundred metres west of the house, in a patch of land that overlooked the River Liffey. Within six months both Edward and Charles had joined their brother in the graveyard; Edward killed by a fall from his horse and then Charles apparently suffering from heart failure. A relative inherited the estate, but wanted nothing to do with the house and arranged for it to be advertised to let in the national press. The advertisement ran for a number of months and eventually Mr Clement Scott signed a lease for the house, and took up residence with his wife Mabel, and their three daughters Alice, Elizabeth and Mary. Elizabeth grew sick first, shortly followed by Alice and then their father. They were struck by vomiting then endless diarrhoea. Within days Elizabeth was dead. A doctor diagnosed cholera, suspecting that the well that supplied the house with drinking water was tainted by some kind of infection. He fought to save the lives of Alice and her father but by the end of the week they were also both dead. The grim bodies of all three members of the Scott family were interred in the graveyard behind the house. Mabel Scott and her only surviving daughter, Mary, fled to England, apparently saying that the house was cursed.
St Peters choir
In front of church, main city centre, Drogheda
Coolfore Lodge, Monasterboice, Co. Louth
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55 Charlemont (Zendesk EMEA) - Abandoned Factory near the canal in Dublin, Ireland...
Now demolished (2016). Nothing happens. A tour of exterior of the old Dairy Science Laboratory between on Charlemont Place beside the Grand Canal and Adelaide Road. Premises is in good condition, but impressively overgrown. 55 Charlemont has been built here and is occupied by Zendesk EMEA.
Premises is split into three non-connecting parts:
Part one: 00:18
Part two: 06:06
Part three (empty plot): 08:06
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Drogheda Hyperlapse (Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann)
EDIT: I made two text mistakes in a rush to upload this video yesterday so I've changed them and re-uploaded the video.
I've wanted to try make some hyperlapses for a long time and I thought with the arrival of the Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann next week in Drogheda, it was the perfect importunity to create some hyperlapses of some of Drogheda's top sights
P.S. Make sure you stay until 1.05 minutes for the action to begin!!
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