Qualla: Mornington https://qualla.com/mornington-county-meath en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/9/mornington-county-meath-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mornington https://qualla.com/mornington-county-meath Mornington: Introduction https://qualla.com/mornington-county-meath/ Photo credit Bananenfalter, CC0. On the south bank of the Boyne, where the river finally meets the Irish Sea, two strange stone shapes have watched the water for four centuries. One is the Maiden Tower, a square sixty-foot watchtower with a spiral staircase tapering to its parapet, built during the reign of Elizabeth I. The other is the Lady's Finger, a stone pillar a short distance away. They were navigation marks: a ship approaching the river mouth knew it was safely lined up with the channel when the Finger disappeared behind the Tower. They worked beautifully. They also accumulated stories. The tower is named, by tradition, for the Virgin Queen herself.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/9/mornington-county-meath-wp/gce9-mornington-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mornington: The Mouth of the Boyne https://qualla.com/mornington-county-meath/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. Mornington sits at the river-mouth that the early Irish called Inber Colpa - the estuary of Colpa. In the foundation myth of the Milesians, the legendary first Gaelic ancestors of the Irish, Colpa son of Mil Espaine drowned trying to land here. His brother Eremon made it ashore, ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/9/mornington-county-meath-wp/gce9-mornington-the-mouth-of-the-boyne.mp3 0:06 2 full Mornington: The Maiden Tower and the Lady's Finger https://qualla.com/mornington-county-meath/ Photo credit Cianwal, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Maiden Tower was certainly standing by 1582, when Dublin Corporation proposed building "a tower of such height and strength as shall be of a perpetual continuance like the tower at Drogheda" at Ringsend. The name's link to Elizabeth I - the Virgin Queen - was already consider...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/9/mornington-county-meath-wp/gce9-mornington-the-maiden-tower-and-the-ladys-finger.mp3 0:06 3 full Mornington: The Fishermen's River https://qualla.com/mornington-county-meath/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. Mornington was a fishing village for at least eight centuries. The Boyne fishery - salmon nets and mussel beds - was the lord's fishery from Stuart times, granted by James I to George Carew in 1603 and then folded into Drogheda's town charter in 1609. Salmon were taken by draft n...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/9/mornington-county-meath-wp/gce9-mornington-the-fishermens-river.mp3 0:06 4 full Mornington: Robert the Mariner https://qualla.com/mornington-county-meath/ Photo credit Kieran Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0. The village name comes from a 12th-century Norman called Robert le Mariner. By 1182 Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath, had granted the tithes of Robert's land to the Augustinian abbey at Colpe, and Mornington was on the medieval record as Villa Roberti Marinarii, Villa Marinarii, and e...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/9/mornington-county-meath-wp/gce9-mornington-robert-the-mariner.mp3 0:06 5 full Mornington: The Earl's Long Shadow https://qualla.com/mornington-county-meath/ Photo credit P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. The title Earl of Mornington became one of the most prominent in the British peerage. Mornington is now a courtesy title held by Arthur Darcy Wellesley, born 2010, eldest son of the Marquess of Douro and heir to the Wellington dukedom. The 2nd Earl of Mornington - the Duke of Wel...

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