Bell Tower

Counties Meath, Louth, Cavan & Monaghan


All that remains of the 13th-century Franciscan friary the town grew up around is an ancient bell tower, next to the grave of 17th-century rebel leader Owen Roe O'Neill in Abbey St's cemetery.


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