Earl of Drogheda (pronounced "Dro-hed-ah" in Ireland"; "Draw-dah" in England) is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1661 for Henry Moore, 3rd Viscount Moore.
Lord Drogheda also holds the titles Viscount Moore, of Drogheda (created in 1621), and Baron Moore, of Mellefont in the County of Louth (created in 1616) in the Peerage of Ireland and Baron Moore, of Cobham in the County of Surrey (created in 1954 for the 10th Earl), in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
The first Viscount had hosted and facilitated the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Mellifont in 1603. The 6th Earl was created Marquess of Drogheda in the Peerage of Ireland in 1791 and Baron Moore, of Moore Place in the County of Kent, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1801, but these titles became extinct in 1892 on the death without heirs of the 3rd Marquess (and 8th Earl). The 1661 earldom still exists.
The family properties included Moore Abbey at Monasterevin in County Kildare until 1938.[1]
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The heir apparent is the present holder's son Benjamin Garrett Henderson Moore, Viscount Moore (b. 1983)