Mill mount Fort

Millmount is a large fortified complex located on a exquisite mound at the South financial institution of the River Boyne placed in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland. The fort has performed a vital element in Drogheda's records and has been a dominant characteristic from Norman agreement, to Cromwell's invasion to the more latest Civil War in 1922, in which the famous Martello tower changed into shelled and all but destroyed. Today the complex homes the Millmount Museum which houses a wide style of artifacts of local and national importance. The complicated is Drogheda's most dominant function, surely visible from all components of the metropolis. The Martello tower is affectionately called "The Cup and Saucer" through locals. The entire fortress is a country wide monument and has been precise as Drogheda's Cultural Quarter.

It has been fortified in historic instances for the reason that early twelfth Century CE when the invading Normans constructed a mote and bailey on what turned into likely at first a Neolithic passage grave just like Newgrange. In Irish cosmology, it is regularly assumed to be the burial location of Amhairgin Mac Milled, whose call indicates that in historic Irish mythology he was seemed because the originator of the arts of tune, poetry and tune. The shamanistic Early Irish poem "The Song of Amhairgin", uttered via him in the tale of his access into Ireland by means of the River Boyne, turned into therefore conventionally regarded because the first Irish poem.