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County Louth is a maritime county in the province of Leinster….woth seeing on tours of Ireland.  Ireland’s smallest county, only 318 square miles, Louth is, however, more heavily populated than other larger counties because it has the major towns of Drogheda and Dundalk near both its northern and southern extremities.  These two towns together account for [...]

North of Dundalk, a few minutes’ drive takes you into the lovely scenery of the hilly, granite Cooley peninsula, attractive in its own right, but also overlooking tempting views of the Mountains of Mourne across the lough which divides the Republic from Northern Ireland. Cooley is associated with one of Ireland’s best known myths, the Cattle [...]