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Drogheda, municipal borough and seaport in eastern Ireland, on the border of Louth and Meath counties, 41 km (25 mi) north of Dublin. Drogheda's Gaelic name is Droichead Átha, meaning bridge of the ford, and it is divided by an estuary of the Boyne River 5 km (3 mi) from the Irish Sea. Two towns of Drogheda, which grew up on either side of the Boyne River, received separate charters from King Henry III of England in the 13th century but were combined by charter in 1412.
Drogheda is noted for the ruins of the Saint Mary d'Urso Abbey, the site of a residence of the 6th-century Irish missionary Saint Columba. Also of note in Drogheda are the old, ruined town walls, which include Saint Lawrence's Gate; a 13th-century Magdalen Steeple that was part of the friary where Richard II, king of England from 1377 to 1399, asserted his dominance over Irish statesmen; and the 17th-century church of Saint Peter.
