Trim (Ireland)
Trim ( Irish : Baile Átha Troim ) is a town in County Meath in the Republic of Ireland with 9194 inhabitants (2016). Trim is about 60 m above sea level. NN on the Boyne River .
history
The place is a founding of the Norman Hugh de Lacy . He founded a moth with a wooden tower here in 1172 , which burned down in 1173. The settlement ceded to Hugh Tyrell was provided with a fort in 1174 and was immediately contested, as Roderick O'Conner , the King of Connacht , made claims. In the 15th century the Anglo-Norman parliament met in Trim.
Attractions
- Trim Castle is a 12th century Norman castle, both originally and in ruins the largest in Europe. It was usedas a backdropfor the film Braveheart . On the banks of the Boyne, the Norman nobleman Hugh de Lacy first built a moth with a wooden tower in 1172 as the first act of Norman conquest in Meath. The Motte was soon expanded by Hugh's son Walter de Lacy into a huge fortress as the center of the de Lacy family's territory.
- St. Patrick's Church was built in the west of the city in the 19th century. The tower of the old church from the 15th century and the baptismal font have been preserved.
- The Yellow Steeple is the ruins of the bell tower of St. Mary's Augustinian Abbey, built in 1368. Not far away are the only remaining remains of the city wall built in 1359.
- Ruins of the Cathedral of St Peter and Paul with the remains of the Newton Trim canon , which the Bishop of Meath, Simon de Rochfort , founded here in 1206.
broadcast
On the Summerhill near Trim there is a transmission system for long-wave radio with a 248 meter high steel lattice tower insulated from the earth as a transmitting antenna, which used to broadcast the Atlantic 252 transmitter .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Trim (agglomeration) on citypopulation.de, accessed on September 1, 2017
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ N , 6 ° 47 ′ W