"Council held in County Hall, Dundalk on Monday 31st March, 2008; the judgement raised no objections by Louth County Council and Lú has since been used as the Irish word for Louth. The Minute No. 48/08 of this meeting states: ""The correspondence from the Dept of Gaeltacht, Community and Rural affairs and the Placenames Commission regarding the Irish title of County Louth as discussed with members raising no objections to the Placenames Commission recommendation of Lú but requesting that advice be sought on the correct spelling of Lú in its tuiseal ginideach (genitive case) form""[sic] On 31 March 2008 the"
"County Louth County Louth () is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the Mid-East Region. It is named after the village of Louth. Louth County Council is the local authority for the county. According to the 2016 census, the population of the county is 122,897. County Louth is colloquially known as 'the Wee County' as it is Ireland's smallest county by area (826 km 319 mi). It is the 18th-largest in terms of population. It is the smallest of Leinster’s 12 counties by size and the sixth-largest by population. With its"
"fairly average total population and its small size, Louth is the second-most densely populated county in Ireland, behind Dublin, and the fourth-most on the island of Ireland. County Louth is named after the village of Louth, which in turn is named after Lugh, a god of the ancient Irish. Historically, the placename has had various spellings; ""Lugmad"", ""Lughmhaigh"", and ""Lughmhadh"" (see Historic Names List, for full listing). ""Lú"" is the modern simplified spelling. The county is steeped in myth, legend and history, and is a setting in the Táin Bó Cúailnge. Later it saw the influence of the Vikings, as"
"and Sinn Féin (left wing). The area of Omeath was Irish-speaking until the early 20th century, a native dialect of Louth Irish existed there until about 1930, but is now extinct although recordings have been made. Within the county 790 people use Irish on a daily basis and 2,276 people use Irish on a weekly basis outside the education system according to the 2016 census. County Louth County Louth () is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the Mid-East Region. It is named after the village of Louth. Louth County Council"
"128,884. The table below sets out the population of the county broken down by Municipal District, total 2016 population of 128,884. The table below sets out the population of the county broken down by Electoral Division. Louth County Council Louth County Council () is the authority responsible for local government in County Louth, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, and environment. The council has 29 elected members. Elections are held every five years and"
"Louth Town F.C. Louth Town F.C. is an English football club based in Louth, Lincolnshire. They currently play in the , whilst their reserve and academy teams play in the East Lincs Combination League. They were established in 2007 following the demise of Louth United. They played in the Central Midlands League until they were promoted to the Northern Counties East League in 2010. At the end of the 2012-2013 season, Louth Town finished in their highest position of 3rd in the Northern Counties East League. Manager Daryl Clare, in his first season with the club as manager, took the"
"2014, County Louth has been subdivided into four Local Electoral Area's (often abbreviated as LEA) for elections to Louth County Council and three Municipal districts for local government which are, Key: For elections to Dáil Éireann, Louth is represented by the five member Louth constituency which takes in the entire county of Louth and two electoral divisions in County Meath. the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009 merged the electoral divisions of St.Mary's (Part) and Julianstown, collectively known as ""East Meath"" in County Meath with County Louth to form one Louth Dáil constituency. The Report on Dáil and European Parliament Constituencies 2007"
"was reduced in 2010), is situated in the nearby village of Donington on Bain, west of the town. Louth will be the eventual southern terminus of the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway, based at nearby Ludborough. The town was formerly on the East Lincolnshire Railway from Peterborough to Grimsby, an important north-south route especially for holidaymakers in the summer. It opened in 1848. The line to Mablethorpe started in the town from 1877, closing in 1960. The section to Wainfleet closed in 1961, with the Louth to Grimsby section later continuing for passengers until October 1970, with freight stopping in 1980. The"
"Louth, Lincolnshire Louth () is a market town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Louth is the principal town and centre for a large rural area of eastern Lincolnshire. Visitor attractions include St. James' Church, Hubbard's Hills, the market, many independent retailers and Lincolnshire's last remaining cattle market. Louth is at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds where they meet the Lincolnshire Marsh and is known as the Capital of the Lincolnshire Wolds. It developed where the ancient trackway along the Wolds, known as the Barton Street, crossed the River Lud. The town is east"
"Louth GAA crest because the bridge was mainly located in County Meath, this led to the county crest being changed to a more simple version. Louth GAA The Louth County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) () or Louth GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Louth. The county board is also responsible for the Louth inter-county championship. The earliest recorded inter-county football match took place in 1712 when Louth faced Meath at Slane. A fragment of a poem from 1806 records a football match"
"of a gorge carved into the Wolds that forms the Hubbard's Hills. This area was formed from a glacial overspill channel in the last glacial period. The River Lud meanders through the gorge before entering the town. Louth had a population of 15,930 as of 2009. The Greenwich Meridian passes through the town and is marked on Eastgate with plaques on the north and south sides of the street, just east of the junction with Northgate, although this location is known to be incorrect as the line actually passes through a point just west of Eastgate's junction with Church Street."
"defines the constituency as: Louth population as per Electoral Divisions, for Louth Dáil constituency. This population count relates to the number of people within the Louth county boundary, along with the electoral divisions of Julianstown, and St. Mary's (part) in the county of Meath, as per the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013. Following the death of Fine Gael TD James Coburn, a by-election was held on 3 March 1954. The seat was won by the Fine Gael candidate George Coburn, son of the deceased TD. Louth (Dáil constituency) Louth is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower"
"Toomes Toomes () is a townland in County Louth, Ireland. Toomes is closely located to Louth which is home to the St Mochtas House, circa 500AD, and to St Mary's Abbey, Louth. Toomes is also at the heart of the so-called Patrick Kavanagh Country which covers the area around Inniskeen where Patrick Kavanagh was born. Many of his poems are set there. As a townland Toomes is hardly remarkable would it not be for the fact that the Quinn Group applied in 2007 to build a Natural Gas fired combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power station with an electrical output"
"the son of former Louth footballer Eugene Judge. At club level he won a Louth Senior Football Championship in 2008 & 2013 with Newtown Blues. [1] http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/judge-axed-by-louth-157557.html Colm Judge Colm Judge (born in Drogheda) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays Gaelic football with his local club Newtown Blues and has been a member of the Louth senior inter-county team since 2006. Judge is regarded as one of Louth's top GAA players. He was part of the Louth team that played in the final of the Leinster Senior Football Championship in 2010, but were beaten in controversial circumstances by Meath. He"
"Louth plus a small part of County Meath near Drogheda. Louth was a constituency in the first Dáil election in December 1918 when Sinn Féin won by 255 votes, its narrowest margin of victory in that election. John J. O'Kelly, a native of Kerry, resident in Glasnevin (Dublin), was Louth's first TD. The constituency was merged with Meath to form the 5 seat Louth–Meath constituency for the 2nd and 3rd Dála. In 1923 Louth became a new 3 seat constituency. Fortescue was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, requiring a by-election. Bellew resigned after he was appointed a law"
"which had a population of 10,889 recorded in 2011. The Report on Dáil and European Parliament Constituencies 2007 recommended """"that Louth should become a 5-seat constituency by extending the constituency southwards from, and in the environs of, Drogheda and taking in electoral divisions which have extensive linkages with the town. This will allow the inclusion of the town of Drogheda and hinterland areas in a single constituency."""" The Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009 defines the constituency as: ""The county of Louth and, in the county of Meath, the electoral divisions of Julianstown, St. Mary’s (part), in the former ""Rural District of"
"Louth, New South Wales Louth is a village on the eastern side of the Darling River in New South Wales, Australia. The village is in Bourke Shire, 99 kilometres south west of Bourke and 132 kilometres north west of Cobar. The town is made famous by the Louth Races which are held in August each year, attracting crowds of nearly five thousand. At the 2016 census, Louth and the surrounding region had a population of 43. The community has a pub (which serves as a cafe and store), school, tennis club and turf club. The town was established in 1859"
"Restaurant Awards. Mattock Rangers, Louth Senior Football Champions 2002, 2005, 2009 and 2010. They also got to the 1973, 1976, 1962, 2001 and 2008 losing all of them.Louth_Senior_Football_Championship#cite_note-3 Mattock Rangers, Louth Junior Hurling Championship Winners. In 2015 Mattock, amalgamated with Hunterstown Rovers and Glen Emmets won the under 21 county championship, defeating Noaimh Finbarrs/ O'Connells on a scoreline of 0-15 to 0-06. Collon Collon () is a village and townland in the south west corner of County Louth, Ireland, on the N2 national primary road. The village is home to the Cistercian Abbey of New Mellifont, and to Collon House,"
"and were replaced by Regional Assemblies. Under Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/2066, which took effect in 2018, County Louth was transferred from the Border Region to the Mid-East Region, increasing the number of Mid-East counties from 3 to 4. Due to its position along the Dublin–Belfast corridor and strong economic ties with the Greater Dublin Area, Louth was removed from the Border Region despite sharing a border with Northern Ireland. These changes had a number of implications. Although the least populous county in the Mid-East, the region's two largest towns are now Dundalk and Drogheda, which are both in County Louth,"
"Leas-Cathaoirleach from among its members. The members elected for each municipal district elect a Cathaoirleach and a Leas-Chathaoirleach for their grouping. The Cathaoirleach chairs the meetings of the local authority or municipal district. Mayor and Deputy Mayor are titles used in municipal districts which were formerly borough councils. Since 1899 there has been 51 Cathaoirleach of Louth County Council. Breakdown of the 51 times the Cathaoirleach (chair) was held by each political party in Louth, in its 119 year history: The table below sets out the population of the county broken down by Local Electoral Area, total 2016 population of"
"the Louth senior team for a time. Frank Lynch (Gaelic footballer) Frank Lynch (born 1938) is an Irish Gaelic games administrator, Gaelic football manager and former player. His league and championship career with the Louth senior team lasted fourteen seasons from 1956 until 1970. Born in Haggardstown, County Louth, Lynch was educated at St. Mary's College in Dundalk. At school he was a promising exponent of rugby union and captained the team before being selected to play for Leinster at youths level. Lynch later joined the Geraldines club with whom he won a county junior championship medal in 1966. After"
"Louth (Dáil constituency) Louth is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 5 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV). The constituency was created under the terms of the Electoral Act 1923, and first used at the 1923 general election. It was a 3-seat constituency from 1923 until 1977, when it was increased to 4 seats. The boundaries were last amended in October 2007 to include an area of County Meath known as East"
"the Louth Meath Hospital Group. It is managed by the Irish Government's Health Service Executive (HSE) and provides acute-care hospital services, including a 24-hour emergency department for the populations of County Louth, County Meath and the entire North-East of Ireland. The hospital provides 340 beds, of which 30 are reserved for acute day cases. The Cottage Hospital (on Scarlet Street) is a former maternity hospital, which subsequently became a Geriatric Unit for a number of years and is now a long stay residential unit. There are six secondary schools situated in Drogheda. St. Joseph's secondary school in Newfoundwell is an"
"and Dowdallshill in the town of Dundalk: Faughart Lower, and Drumnasillagh, in the county of Louth and between its junction with N1 at Drumad in the county of Louth and the boundary between the county of Louth and the county of Armagh at Carrickarnan via Carrickarnan in the county of Louth. The junction list below only includes junctions with national or regional roads. Fingal County Council have announced an upgrade plan for the road. R132 road (Ireland) The R132 road is one of Ireland's newest regional roads, having been classified following the opening M1 motorway which by-passes most of the"
"Omeath Omeath () is a village on the R173 regional road in County Louth, Ireland, close to the border with Northern Ireland. It is roughly midway between Dublin and Belfast, very near the County Louth and County Armagh / County Down border. Omeath has a population of 439, in 2006, 503 in 2011 and is approximately from Carlingford and about from Newry. By sea, its nearest land neighbour is Warrenpoint on the south County Down coast. Omeath is home to the Cúchulainn Gaels Gaelic Athletic Association club. It is named after ""Muireadheach Méith"" (""méith""= the fat) and was originally called"
"to link him with the unnamed Gaulish god Julius Caesar identifies with Mercury, whom he describes as the ""inventor of all the arts"". Caesar describes the Gaulish Mercury as the most revered deity in Gaul, overseeing journeys and business transactions. The County of Louth in Ireland is named after the village of Louth, which in turn is named after the God Lugh. Historically, the place name has had various spellings; ""Lugmad"", ""Lughmhaigh"", and ""Lughmhadh"" (see Historic Names List, for full listing). ""Lú"" is the modern simplified spelling. Lugh Lugh or Lug (; Modern Irish: ""Lú"" ) is an important god"
"the Georgian ""Sandpit House."" Sandpit, County Louth Sandpit is a small village in the rural hinterland of Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland. Sandpit is located about four miles north of Drogheda, off the road to Termonfeckin. It lies between the M1 motorway and the coast, where there are extensive beaches and golf courses at Baltray and Seapoint. The village has been growing as a location for people working in Drogheda. There is a 19th-century church (The church of assumption), a primary school an XL supermarket and a community hall, which houses a playschool and is used by many local clubs and"
"pitted them against Meath. Louth almost won but for referee Martin Sludden, who allowed a controversial goal by Joe Sheridan late in the game. Louth subsequently entered the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship through the ""back door"". However, the team lost heavily to Dublin in their next game, thus ending the county's 2010 championship season. The 2011 season proved to be a good start throughout the league. Louth qualified for the Division 3 Final where they faced Westmeath. The final proved to be a very tense but bright finish as Louth ran out winners on a scoreline of 1-15 to"
"poulterers since 1896, and the century old butchers, Lakings of Louth. The first building society branch office was opened by the Peterborough Building Society (now Norwich & Peterborough) in 1973. The town was also the headquarters of the former Louth, Mablethorpe and Sutton Building Society, a local society with several branches and agents in Lincolnshire, which was taken over by the Bradford & Bingley in 1990. Louth is also known for its specialist grocers, and local butchers, Meridian Meats, have won numerous awards. It is also home to The Cheese Shop, which has gained nationwide recognition, including in ""The Daily"
"and has indoor and outdoor tennis facilities. There is a multiuse sports pavilion on London Road, which includes football pitches, a cricket pitch and a multi-use astroturf pitch. Louth Cricket Club was formed in 1822 and play their home games at the London Road sports pavilion. Louth is home to Louth Town Football Club which plays in the Lincolnshire Football League. In the Wolds to the south-west of the town, around four miles (6 km) away, is Cadwell Park motor racing circuit between the villages of Scamblesby and Tathwell. Louth also hosts Louth Swimming Club, Louth Old Boys (Football), Yom"
"outlined;""""by extending the constituency southwards from, and in the environs of, Drogheda and taking in electoral divisions which have extensive linkages with the town. This will allow the inclusion of the town of Drogheda and hinterland areas in a single constituency."""" This merger allowed the areas of the Greater Drogheda area in County Meath and their combined population of 20,375 to be merged with Drogheda and County Louth. Following the 2011 general election, the constituency elected two TDs for the Fine Gael party (centre right), and one touchdown each for Fianna Fáil (centre to centre-right), the Labour Party (centre left)"
"Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda <mapframe latitude=""53.716216"" longitude=""-6.363831"" zoom=""10"" width=""200"" height=""100"" align=""right"">{ }</mapframe>Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital (""OLLH"" or ""OLOL"") is a public hospital located in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, part of the Louth Meath Hospital Group. It is managed by the Irish Government's Health Service Executive (HSE) and provides acute-care hospital services, including a 24-hour emergency department, for the populations of County Louth, County Meath and the entire North East of Ireland. In 2008, the hospital served 110,844 out-patients, and 21,446 in-patients, with an average stay of 4.5 nights. In 2007, 42,566 patients presented to the emergency department,"
"Boyne, become part of an extended County Louth. Until the late 16th century, Louth had been a part of Ulster, before being included as part of Leinster after a conference held at Faughart (in 1596) between the Chiefs of Ulster (O'Nial/O'Niel and O'Donel/McDonnel), on the Irish side, and the Archbishop of Cashel and the Earl of Ormonde on that of the English. The 16th and 17th centuries featured many skirmishes and battles involving Irish and English forces, as Louth was on the main route to 'the Moiry Pass' and the Ulster areas often in rebellion and as yet uncolonised. Oliver"