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Beaulieu
Mouth of the pool
Béilinn, meaning the mouth of the pool, refers to the narrowing of the saltwater tidal pool at the River Boyne estuary near Drogheda. The townland sits within Beaulieu Civil Parish of the Barony of Ferrard, in the eastern portion of County Louth facing the Irish Sea. The settlement is historically dominated by the Plunkett family, who held Bewley (Beaulieu) from at least the fourteenth century...

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