St Peter's Church of Ireland in Drogheda

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  Gvidas Donskis

  :: 29 March 2018 15:47:31

  Famous ⛪️ in Louth where St. Olivers head is being kept.

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  Frank McArdle

  :: 13 December 2017 13:33:24

  Parish church of Drogheda, the most Southern church of the Armagh diocese

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  Positive Ageing

  :: 11 September 2017 18:59:47

  St Peters Church Of Ireland is a lovely church to visit, with its surrounding tombs and grounds. There are all sorts of gems to be photographed here. Ramble around and read the tombstones, look at the wall art and get angles from every side. I enjoyed my visit and I'm sure you will too.

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  Mask Rasta

  :: 08 June 2017 14:31:18

  A must see for tourists

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  William Murphy

  :: 17 October 2016 19:36:09

  Drogheda has lots of churches and to make life complicated for visitors there are two churches in the town named ’St. Peter’s’. Of the two St. Peter’s Church of Ireland is the one that you need to visit if you are interested in old graveyards. Built on the site of an earlier church, St Peters is an excellent example of a Georgian church and there are not too many of those in Ireland. It may sound as a advertisement for beer at least one tourist guidebook described it as “probably the finest provincial Georgian church in Ireland”. Unfortunately as I visited late in the day I did not gain entry to the church but I spent about an hour viewing the graveyard which is very different to most that I have photographed to date. The most unusual thing that I came across was a “cadaver stone” taken from the tomb of Sir Edmond Goldyng and his wife Elizabeth Fleming. It is built into the churchyard wall, east of the present building and shows two cadavers enclosed in shrouds which have been partially opened to show the remains of the occupants of the tomb.