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Extract from the Donore and Duleek Travel Guides:
A couple of miles southwest of Drogheda,
DONORE
's chief interest, apart from having been King James's base at the time of the Battle of the Boyne, lies in its
ten-pound castle
. In 1429 Henry VI promised a grant of 10 to every one of his subjects who, in the next ten years, built a castle 20ft long, 16ft wide and 40ft high within the counties of Meath, Louth, Kildare and Dublin - the area known as the Pale (the tract of land around Dublin under English control). The three-storey castle here is built almost exactly to these measurements, though unfortunately it seems to be permanently locked up.
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read the whole Donore and Duleek Travel Guides...
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