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Map of Dundalk Area of Dundalk Municipal District. Dundalk (/ d ʌ n ˈ d ɔː (l) k / dun-DAW(L)K; [5] Irish: Dún Dealgan) is the county town of County Louth, Ireland.The town is situated on the Castletown River, which flows into Dundalk Bay on the north-east coast of Ireland, and is halfway between Dublin and Belfast, close to and south of the border with Northern Ireland.
[21] [22] Based on population the Dundalk Municipal District is the largest in the state, comprising 13 elected members, but is not designated as a borough district. Following the 2014 legislation it was an option for Dundalk to be also recognised as a borough district on the equivalent standing as her sister town of Drogheda on the legislation ...
The county boroughs were in the major municipal population centres. The second tier consisted of urban districts, governed by urban district councils; some of the urban district retained a higher status of borough with a corporation. Below that were towns with town commissioners, administered under the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act 1854.
From 1 January 2002 the existing urban district councils and boards of town commissioners became town councils. The city of Kilkenny , along with the four boroughs of Sligo , Drogheda , Clonmel , and Wexford , had the same status under the new legislation as towns; however, they had borough councils as successors to the previous borough ...
[5] [6] In 1899, the town commissioners were replaced by an urban district council, under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, with the town hall becoming the offices of the new council. [7] The town hall started showing silent films in August 1912 and operated as a cinema known as the Picture Palace until 1946 when a major fire destroyed ...
Louth (Irish: Lú) [2] is a village at the heart of County Louth, Ireland.It is roughly 11 km south-west of the town of Dundalk, 10.9 km to neighbouring town Ardee.The village is approximately 15 km south-east of Carrickmacross town in County Monaghan.
County Louth (/ l aʊ ð / LOWDH; [4] Irish: Contae Lú) [5] is a coastal county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster.Louth is bordered by the counties of Meath to the south, Monaghan to the west, Armagh to the north and Down to the north-east, across Carlingford Lough.
The constituency was created by the Electoral Act 1923, and first used at the 1923 general election. [1] It currently spans the entire area of County Louth (which includes the towns of Ardee, Dundalk, Drogheda), the smallest county in Ireland, and a part of County Meath including the suburbs of Drogheda.