| Clogherhead is
a little fishing village situated a little south of Clogher Head the most
easterly
point of Co Louth. The harbour hewn from the rock, is home to a small
fleet of trawlers, fishing the Irish sea mostly for prawns. A few of the
larger boats sometimes venture to the Clyde in Scotland, when catches
at home decline. Crabs and lobsters are also landed at the port In recent
years an extension has been added to the old harbour affording the fleet
a little more protection from the storms of the Irish Sea
The village is located about a mile inland from
the harbour. It was from the area around the town that, the builders of
Newgrange and surrounding
monuments quarried or collected the building stones, before transporting
them along the coast and up he river Boyne
by barge.
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