County Meath · Leinster
Trim
Baile Átha Troim
'town of the ford of the elder trees'
The story
Trim Castle is the largest Anglo-Norman castle in Ireland, begun by Hugh de Lacy in the 1170s and still standing over the Boyne in its full extent. Mel Gibson filmed Braveheart here, which is a Scottish story shot in a Norman-Irish castle — a fair summary of how these things go.
Worth seeing nearby
- Hill of Tara · Seat of the High Kings, with the Lia Fáil that cried out under a rightful king — and, in 1899, holes dug by British Israelites hunting the Ark of the Covenant.
- Tara — the Lia Fáil · The Stone of Destiny, one of four treasures of the Tuatha Dé Danann, which roared beneath the foot of every rightful king of Ireland.
All of these are pinned on the Hidden Ireland map.
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