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The cruciform keep of Trim Castle seen over the curtain wall
Planning5 min readFeatured

Trim Castle: how to actually get inside the keep

The castle splits into two visits: free open grounds that locals walk through daily, and a cruciform keep you can only enter on a guided OPW tour. Hours, prices, timing and the queue the OPW warns about.

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Trim Castle seen along the River Boyne from the riverside path
Walking6 min readFeatured

The Porchfields walk: from Trim Castle out to Newtown

The walk Trim people actually do: castle grounds, footbridge, Yellow Steeple, Sheep Gate, then out along the Boyne through a surviving medieval field system to the Newtown ruins and the medieval bridge.

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Emmet Street in Trim with the StockHouse restaurant frontage
Food & Drink5 min readFeatured

Eating and drinking in Trim

A small town's dining, honestly described: the castle-facing rooms that keep restaurant hours, the daytime places on Emmet Street that serve the town, and the two pubs worth going out of your way for.

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The Yellow Steeple and the ruins of St Mary's Abbey at Trim
History & Culture6 min read

Trim's other medieval town: the Yellow Steeple, the Sheep Gate and two cathedrals

Everything in Trim that is not the castle: a broken abbey bell tower, the last surviving town gate, a thirteenth-century cathedral in ruins downriver, and a Burne-Jones window in a church most visitors never reach.

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