Beaulieu House Drogheda

The present owner Gabriel, is very pleasant and welcoming to what is after all her family home. And despite it being chock full of antique furniture, priceless artifacts and paintings the whole atmosphere is very relaxing. There is nothing ‘precious’ about Beaulieu house. You can sit on a French fauteuil and gaze up at the incredible ceiling painted by Van de Hagen in the drawing room or bury your nose deep in one of the fragrant flower arrangements picked straight from the garden. Another delight, if you can tear yourself away from the house. The geese will follow you through the arched doorway into the walled garden a riot of springtime colour when I last visited. Deliciously old fashioned, a cocktail of wallflowers and forget-me-nots contained in beds of neatly clipped box hedges, summer houses and well placed seats where you can watch somebody else to all the work........

10 Other thing to do and see in the area are....

1 Termonfeckin & Baltraytwo pretty small villages close by, interesting houses, famous seaside golf links and the 19th Hole Pub.

2 Mellifont Abbey a 12th century Cistercian abbey with octagonal lavabo, retrace the footsteps of 800 years as you cross the threshold stone.

3 Drogheda town former Viking settlement, check out St Laurence’s gate one of four original fortified tolled entrances to the town.

4 Mummified head of St Oliver Plunkett on display in St Peters Church on the main street.

5 Millmount Military Museum round building up on the hill to the south overlooking the town.

6 Francis Ledwidge’s cottage road out of Drogheda towards Slane, famous Irish poet who was killed in action in Ypres 1917.

7 Slane village check out the four large houses opposite each other at the crossroads originally belonged to four sisters or peep over the green gates to see Slane Castle, site of the legendry open air rock concerts run by Lord Henry Mountcharles. (May 2011 its the Kings of Leon)

8 Newgrange 5000 year old burial mound, famously aligned to the winter soltice.

9 Knowth passage grave complex, decorated curbed stones, aligned to the equinoxes.

10 Hill of Tara ancient seat of the High Kings of Ireland on scale bigger then Stonehenge, about to be dissected by a new motorway? (will we ever learn)

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