Louth Ireland

Blackrock is a small seaside village located three miles south of Dundalk, famous for its local resort particularly for children. This place is also used to board on sails during low tides when the water recedes leaving the coast very shallow. There is an excellent view of a complete range of the Carlingford mountains at the north side of Dundalk with houses and cottages clustred along the long the coast and mountain sides. You will get buses from Dundalk or car from the latter or Dublin road that is close to the Fairways Hotel to reach this place.

Posted on April 17th, 2008 under Town. Tags: Blackrock, Carlingford, Carlingford mountains, Dublin Road, Dundalk, Fairways Hotel. Comments: 2

Ballymascanlon situates just a mile to the east of the roundabout of the N1 with the main road to Carlingford. Its name derived after from Scanlon, son of Fingin chief of Ui Meith who died in 672. The descendant of Ui Meith commands the credit of having defeated the Danes in Dundalk bay in 833. During the Norman-English period the Ballymascanlon district lying northward to Carrikarnon was donated by Hugh de Lacy to Mellifont Abbey, and after all the monasteries were dissolved in the 16^th century, this property was reached in the hands of the Moores, the grantees of the monastic properties of Mellifont abbey. In the second half of that century, this property came under the custody of the earl of Tyrone, Hugh ONeill for a short period, with the remains of its tower house that had been destroyed long ago.

Posted on April 17th, 2008 under Town. Tags: Ballymascanlon, Carlingford, Carrikarnon, Danes, Dundalk, Hugh ONeill, Mellifont Abbey, Moores, Scanlon, Tyrone, Ui Meith. Comments: None

Louth(Self Catering, Louth, Ireland), a county of Ireland, bounded S and SW by E. Meath, W by Monaghan and Cavan, N by Armagh, NE by the bay of Carlingford, and E by the Irish channel, 27 m. long, and 18 broad. It is in general rich and well cultivated, and has little waste ground. The chief river in Louth is Boyne. The linen manufacture is carried on to a great extent. It sends 1 member to parliament. Before the coming of the Normans, along with Monaghan and Armagh it formed part of the Gaelic kingdom of Oriel. The leading family in the area at that point was the O’Carrolls, though the name is now quite rare in the county. Prince John annexed the area to the English crown in 1185 and from that point on the dominant influences were English and Norman; Louth was part of the Pale, the belt of land surrounding Dublin where the jurisdiction of the English crown remained undefeated. The Norman influence was responsible for the development of two relatively large towns close together, Dundalk and Drogheda.

Posted on April 17th, 2008 under Genealogy. Tags: Armagh, Boyne, Carlingford, Cavan, Colton, Drogheda, Dublin, Dundalk, English, Gaelic kingdom, Ireland, Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Normans, O'Carrolls, Oriel, Pale, Surnames. Comments: 2

This town thrived during the 15^th and 16^th centuries, but the growth of Newry town nearby resulted in the decline of Carlingford that was accelerated during the 18^th century. The Newry Ship canal worked as was a by-pass when voyaging from Louth to Newry. Modern technology has enabled the preservation of the medieval features of this place and Carlingford is one of the Heritage Towns in Ireland today. Winning of the National Tidy Towns competition in 1988 has boosted the scheme for the preservation and development of its medieval features, simultaneously facilitating every possible amenity for visitors including hotels, guesthouses, an adventure sentre, a yachting marina, seasonal festivals and summer cruises around Carlingford.

Posted on April 17th, 2008 under Town. Tags: adventure sentre, Carlingford, Heritage Towns, hotels, Ireland, Louth, National Tidy Towns, Newry Ship, Newry town, seasonal festivals, summer cruises, yachting marina. Comments: None

Omeath district lies in the townland of Ballyonan by the road to Newry from Carlingford. It was the last native Irish speaking district of north Leinster. The Irish School here in the earliest part of this century is now the Park Hotel before it was shifted to Rannafast in County Donegal. Omeath stretches from the Lough shore to Cornamucklagh and from the seaside along the northern slopes of Sliabh Foy (1,935 feet) to the Long Womans Grave and the northern slopes of Carnwaddy, Clermont, and the Flagstaff Hill standing high above Narrowwater on the west. This place along with its resembling kingdom of Mourne to the northern seaside is sure to be the site of the Viking settlement in Carlingford after whom the region got its name Carlinn Fjord. When this area come once again in the hands of the Irish, it was redistributed into two, the northern side to the Mughdorna (Mourne) and the southern side to the Ui Meith (Omeath) both of the same kingdom, the O’ Carrall kingdom of the Oirghialla. The excellent roads developed in this district allows the visitors to travel into this region by bus or car or on foot enjoying the unending natural beauty of of Carlingford Lough, the sedimentary deposits of volcanoes in Sliabh Foy and row of mountains across the Lough in County Down. The Tain Holiday village with its expensive leisure facilities and Caravan Park is not the only place for visitors. Instead, the village itself and its surrounding area are rich with affordable hotel and guest houses and other catering facilities coupled with pony and trap rides from Omeath.

Posted on April 17th, 2008 under Town. Tags: Caravan Park, Carlingford, Carlingford lough, Carlinn Fjord, Carnwaddy, Clermont, County Donegal, County Down, Flagstaff Hill, Leinster, Long Womans Grave, Mughdorna, Narrowwater, Newry, Oirghialla, Omeath, Rannafast, Sliabh Foy, Ui Meith. Comments: None

Posted on April 17th, 2008 under Accommodation. Tags: Bellurgan Point, Carlingford, Castlebellingham, Cois Ba, Cooley Peninsula, Drummeenagh Cottages, Dundalk, Dundalk Bay, Ensuite bathrooms, Greenore Golf Links, Louth, Millgrange Apartments, Oriel Cottage, Sheeling Hill, Slieve Foye Forest, Tain Way, Templetown Beaches, Whitestown Shore Walks. Comments: None

Posted on April 17th, 2008 under Holiday Homes & Self Catering. Tags: 4 star, Ballymacscanlon Golf Course, Bellurgan Point, Carlingford, Cois Ba, Cooley Peninsula, Dublin, Dun Laoghaire, Dundalk, Dundalk Bay, Louth, Northern Ireland, Ravendale. Comments: 1