as the local community centre was built in the 1870s at Donacarney Cross. Designed in 1872-3 by P.J. Dodd of Drogheda, with an extension in 1885, it features separate doors for girls and boys at the front of the building. Its twentieth-century replacement, with a water tower, was demolished to make the site available for the present-day schools in the early 2010s. Artists The area has inspired many artists over the years. Views of the estuary and its fishermen, the beach and the Maiden Tower appear as subjects in watercolour, illustration and oils by various artists including Austin Cooper, Alexander Williams, Nano Reid, Ithell Colquhoun and more recently Richard Moore. An illustration drawn of the 'Mouth of the Boyne' in 1746–47 by Thomas Wright (1711–1786), which shows the Maiden Tower and Lady's Finger, appeared in his book Louthiana, published in 1748. Two other early illustrations are "Views of Maiden-Tower near Drogheda, Co:y Meath" by Austin Cooper in 1782 and "The lady's Finger & Maiden Tower, Co. of Eastmeath" an engraving based on a sketch by George Petrie. The latter appears as a plate in the antiquary Thomas Cromwell's Excursions through Ireland of 1820. Mornington Strand Mornington Strand consists of dunes, known locally since at least the mid-eighteenth century as The Burrows, and a wide sandy strand which extends south from the River Boyne towards Bettystown. The links course of Laytown and Bettystown Golf Club is situated within the Mornington dune-system. There are areas of soft sand close to the River Boyne training walls; warning signs erected at Bettystown warn of the danger. The intertidal sand and mudflats, and the Mornington sand dune systems, are included within the Boyne Coast and Estuary Special Area of Conservation (SAC) which extends along the coast from Bettystown to Termonfeckin. The bodies of murder-victims were found here in 2007 and 2013. Myth and early history Inbher Colpa or Inber Colptha was the principal name in early medieval times for the mouth of the Boyne and in particular the area on its southern shore where hostium Colpdi, the haven of Colpa, was located. The Inbher or tidal estuary of the Boyne, which now extends inland as far as the confluence with the Mattock River, had an earlier tidal limit just below the river-crossing at Ros na Ríg. The estuary had a number of names in medieval Irish literature and was associated as a place of departure