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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.
Dundalk was a parliamentary borough constituency in Ireland, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801, replacing the Dundalk constituency in the Parliament of Ireland.
Their son Edward Gorges was created a baronet in 1611 and obtained the barony of Dundalk in Ireland. Both he and his son Richard Gorges (died 1712) sat in the Parliament of Ireland for the constituency of Ratoath. Richard Gorges' tomb can be seen in the church of Stetchworth in Cambridgeshire. [citation needed]
Thomas Fortescue (1683–1769), sat in the Irish House of Commons for Dundalk from 1727 to 1760. James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil (1694–1758), member of the Irish House of Commons for Dundalk between 1715 and 1719. His father, also James, purchased the lands at Dundalk from Mark Trevor, 3rd Viscount Dungannon.
The Battle of Faughart (or Battle of Dundalk [3]) was fought on 14 October 1318 between an Anglo-Irish force led by John de Bermingham (later created 1st Earl of Louth) and Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick, and a Scottish and Irish army commanded by Prince Edward Bruce, Earl of Carrick, brother of King Robert I of Scots ('Robert the Bruce').
After their successful conquest of England, the Normans turned their attention to Ireland. Ireland was made a lordship of the King of England and much of its land was seized by Norman barons. With time, Hiberno-Norman rule shrank to a territory known as the Pale, stretching from Dublin to Dundalk. [2]
The History of Dundalk and Its Environs. Sagwan Press. ISBN 978-1-297-87130-6. McQuillan, Jack (1993). Railway Town : The Story of the Great Northern Railway Works and Dundalk. Dundalgan Press. ISBN 0-85221-120-1. Murphy, Jim (2003). The History of Dundalk F.C.: The First 100 Years. Dundalgan Press. ASIN B0042SO3R2. Murphy, Jim (2013). C'mon ...
[8] [9] [10] Following the Industrial Revolution, which started in England, Great Britain ruled a colonial Empire, the largest in recorded history. Following a process of decolonisation in the 20th century, mainly caused by the weakening of Great Britain's power in the two World Wars; almost all of the empire's overseas territories became ...