Images from the town of Trim

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This image shows the outline of St. John's Castle on a December morning. The castle was an outpost of the English Pale built by Hugh de Lacy. The English Parliament sat in the town many times. The 1447 enactment required that any Irish man seeking to become English should abandon the Irish moustache and shave both lips.

From left to right, St. Patrick's Protestant Cathedral, St. Mary's Abbey & Talbot Castle, Yellow Steeple. (Talbot Caslte).

The final resting place of Sir Lucas Dillon (in renaissance armour) and his wife Jane Bathe. Locally this altar tomb is known as the "jealous man and woman"

One the foremost gardens in Ireland, Butterstream garden was one of the places visited by Prince Charles on his visit to Ireland.

Viewing Trim from the north bank of the Boyne. Left to right St. John's Castle, St Loman's Catholic parish church, The Wellington Column.

Images from bygone days

Viewing Trim from the south of the town. Left to right Yellow Steeple, The Wellington Column, St. John's Castle, St Loman's Catholic parish church.

Looking east over Market Street. In the background the Yellow Steeple reaches skyward. To the left of the large house at the end of the street is town courthouse which is being renovated at the moment

Trim castle as seen from the nothern bank of the river Boyne. It is in the area of the river that many river crossings were filmed in the film Braveheart directed by Mel Gibson. At the moment the castle is be renovated and hopefully will be open to the public sometime in the early part of the year 2000.

Taken from an engraving this image displays St. Peter's and Paul's cathedral, Newtown, as seen from the bridge over the river Boyne. This Augustinian see was set up by Simon de Rochfort in 1206.