The Irish town of Drogheda in Ireland is situated on which river?
Drogheda (Parliament of Ireland constituency) into the "county of the town of Drogheda" separate from Meath and Louth. The county of the town formed a single county borough constituency. In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Drogheda was represented with two members. Drogheda (Parliament of Ireland constituency) Drogheda was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801. There were originally two boroughs named Drogheda, lying on opposite sides of the River Boyne that forms the boundary between County Meath to the south and County Louth (or Uriel) to the north. Sometimes a writ of election was made to
Siege of Drogheda Siege of Drogheda The Siege of Drogheda took place on 3–11 September 1649, at the outset of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. The coastal town of Drogheda was held by the Irish Catholic Confederation and English Royalists under the command of Sir Arthur Aston when it was besieged by Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell. After Aston rejected an offer to surrender, the town was stormed and much of the garrison was executed and an unknown but "significant number" of civilians were killed by the Parliamentarian troops. The outcome of the siege and the extent to which civilians were targeted is