Louth Ireland

This busy manufacturing centre at the head of Dundalk Bay, is the county town of Louth. There is a 2 km. long racecourse to the north in Dundalk where greyhound racing is conducted twice every week. Salmon and trout hunting is possible on the River Fane and other streams. Further, there is facility for golfing at Blackrock, horse riding information and pony-trekking. Louth Foxhounds (a type of hound used to chase fox) and Dundalk Harriers (a type of hound used to chase hare) are very common in the district. Other entertaining events like Tennis, squash, dancing, cinemas, etc. also are possible. Every year an international theatre festival is organized here. The forest park at Ravensdale is an ideal place for walking and nature trials.

Posted on April 17th, 2008 under Town. Tags: Blackrock, Dundalk, Dundalk Bay, Dundalk Harriers, forest park, Louth Foxhounds, Ravensdale, River Fane. Comments: None

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

Land Area: 820 km

County Town: Dundalk

Code: LH

Population: 101,821 (2002)

Province: Leinster

Posted on April 17th, 2008 under County Facts. Tags: Dundalk, Land Area, Leinster, Louth, Population. 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

Formerly Gernonstown this village consisting of large country houses with lands surrounding them and situates 7 miles south of Dundalk on the N1 roadway. These manors are largely owned by the Bellingham family descendants of a captain in Cromwell’s army who received a grant of the confiscated lands of the Gernons of Gernonstown in the 1650’s. The castle once stood where, at present, stands the Bellingham Castle Hotel, an early 18^th century construction which was earlier the home of Bellinghams that underwent major remodeling later. Further renovations include the tower tutters and the gateway. You can access the river Glyde from the ground of this hotel. Also there are Widows Almshouses, cottages and boarding houses constructed by the Bellingham family in this village, perhaps to the deisgn of William Vitruvius Morrison. Also you find a roadside crucifix that was designed from a royal oak blown down in 1902.

Posted on April 17th, 2008 under Town. Tags: Bellingham, Bellingham Castle Hotel, Castlebellingham, Dundalk, Gernons, Gernonstown, river Glyde, tower tutters, Widows Almshouses. Comments: None

Greenore is a village of late 19^th century developed during 1873 at the mouth of Carlingford Lough following the commissioning of the railway connecting Newry and Dundalk. There already was a port opened in 1867 for travel and freight to the west coast of Britain. Even when many ports and railways were closed down in 1951, this amenity still survived facilitating shipment of cattle and other consignments to Britain and Europe. There are excellent sights of Carlingford Lough, Silve Foy and the Mourne mountains. Fishing on a sea shore and Golf in the Greenore Golf Club are other popular attractions in this place. An international festival is due every year, and the forest park at Ravensdale has walks and nature trials to guide visitors during sight seeing.

Posted on April 17th, 2008 under Town. Tags: Britain, Carlingford lough, Dundalk, Europe, Greenore, Mourne mountains, Newry, Ravensdale, reenore Golf Club, Silve Foy. Comments: None

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Posted on April 17th, 2008 under Accommodation. Tags: Alford, Belfast Airport, Boyne Valley, Conference Centre, County Louth, Drogheda, Dublin Road, Dundalk, Fairlawns, Gayton-Le-Marsh, Killowen House, Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire Wolds, Louth, Newgrange Megalithic Tombs, Westbrook House, Woodgrange. Comments: None