Drisheen City
Cork, Ireland. The name arises from a favorite dish, native to the place, composed of cows' milk and the blood serum of sheep in equal quantities, flavored with pepper, salt, and tansy, served hot, and eaten at breakfast.
DROGHEDA (droch'e-dä), a seaport town, and county of itself, in the S. E. of County Louth, Ireland, built mostly on the N. bank of the river Boyne, 4 miles from its mouth, 32 N. of Dublin by rail, and 81 S. of Belfast. The Boyne is crossed here by a railway viaduct 95 feet high. In 1649 Cromwell stormed the town after a desperate struggle, and for a stern lesson to the Irish, put its stubborn garrison to the sword. Poyning's laws were enacted here in 1494, and about the same time a mint was set up. Drogheda surrendered to William III. the day after the battle of the Boyne. Pop. about 13,000.