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including watersports, archery and climbing. In addition, it is the location for the local RNLI lifeboat station which houses a Mersey class lifeboat, the Doris Bleasdale. The other beach is on the north side of the village and is known as the 'Big Strand'. Both have bathing facilities with a lifeguard on duty at the village beach during summer months.
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Callystown National School (a Catholic school under the trusteeship of the Archbishop of Armagh) has been in "official" existence since 1832. It is located on the north side of the village with access through the estate of John Kirk Park. As of the 21st century, it has approximately 300 pupils and
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The village has two main beaches. Port Beach in the centre of the village is a Blue Flag beach with the Neptune watersports centre which is run by the local council. The centre is the location for Celtic Adventures which provides schools and groups with a range of sports and training services
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club, Dreadnots Gaelic Football Club, have had three senior players in the Louth County team: Pádraig Rath, Anthony Williams, and James Califf. The club reached the Louth senior championship finals in 2012 and 2014 losing to St Patrick's on both occasions.
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The headland is also the site of the Red Mans Cave, where Cromwellian soldiers are reputed to have put to death a number of Catholic Priests during the time of the Cromwellian Wars of 1649.
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has been extended a number of times to cater for the population growth in the village and an influx of pupils from the surrounding areas.
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Port Oriel is a fishing port with a large fleet, and also the harbour provides a platform for onshore sea fishing for anglers.
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The headland has a walking trail from the village along steep sea cliffs to the nearby harbour of Port Oriel (
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reputedly took refuge in a church that once stood in the townland of Killartry in the parish of Clogherhead
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Clogherhead hosts the Seafood Rocks festival, a successor to the former Clogherhead Prawn Festival.
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course. Walshestown clay-pigeon shooting club is near Clogherhead at Murray's Cross.
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Clogherhead has been used as a filming location for a number of films, including:
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There are three public houses in the village, as well as a number of restaurants.
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CLOGHER, or KILCLOGHER in Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)
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which extends from near the lifeboat station and on to the Boyne estuary.
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of Clogher and Callystown, about 12 km (7 mi) northeast of
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Clogherhead is a tourist destination, and the village has a sandy
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Historically, the village was known simply as Clogher (
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lifeboat stationed in the village for over 100 years.
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Clogher (disambiguation)
Beach at Clogherhead
Clogherhead is located in Ireland
53°47′31″N 6°14′17″W / 53.792°N 6.238°W / 53.792; -6.238
Ireland
Province
Leinster
County
County Louth
Dáil constituency
Louth
EU Parliament
Midlands–North-West
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Irish
headland
fishing village
County Louth
2016 census
townlands
Drogheda
RNLI
townland
Rockabill Lighthouse
Bus Éireann
Drogheda
Termonfeckin
Baltray
Drogheda railway station

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