Drogheda

Drogheda, a seaport in co. Louth, near the mouth of the Boyne, 32 m. N. of Dublin, with manufactures and a considerable export trade; was stormed by Cromwell in 1649 “after a stout resistance,” and the garrison put to the sword; surrendered to William III. after the battle of the Boyne in 1690.

Population (circa 1900) given as 11,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)