River Boyne - Energy : Anger and Conflict

The Energy -

of course this also connects to fear...

From William Wilde's 'The Beauties of the Boyne and Blackwater' -

'Many a broad smiling plain through which it flows, now green with waving corn, or perfumed and decorated by the wild flowers of a pasture land, or by some delicate female hand cultivated into the elegant garden, in the bowers of which the birds of spring are singing, was once the scene of mortal strife, and crimsoned with the blood of warriors, where the clang of battle, the shout of the victorious, the groan of the dying, and the prayer of the suppliant, alone were heard. Scarcely a ford upon this river but was disputed in days gone by; every pass was a Thermopylae; the bardic annals teem with descriptions of its battles; ….'

The Places -

Ardmulchan - 968 Battle with Vikings

Oldbridge, west of Drogheda - Battle of the Boyne - 1st July 1690 - King James II versus William III (William of Orange).

Drogheda - massacre by Oliver Cromwell and his forces - September 1649.

Page last updated: 21st Feb 2009