County Louth
County Louth is in the East Coast and Midlands region of Ireland, and traditionally part of the province of Leinster. It's low-lying, fertile and within an hour's travel of Dublin, so it's densely populated, with Dundalk and Drogheda the main towns.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Dundalk and Drogheda.
Dundalk
Dundalk is the county town of County Louth on the east coast of the Republic of Ireland, 7 km south of the border with Northern Ireland. It's industrial and residential but there are scenic areas to the north, especially the Cooley peninsula.Drogheda
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Drogheda is an industrial town in County Louth, astride the River Boyne on the east coast of Ireland. Its turbulent history is reflected in its medieval fortifications, while nearby are ruined monasteries and the must-see Neolithic complex of Brú na Bóinne.
Clogherhead
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Clogherhead is a village in County Louth, 12 km northeast of Drogheda on the east coast of Ireland. Ceann Chlochair means "rocky headland" but the name of the headland became applied to the entire village.
County Louth
- Type: county of Ireland with 139,000 residents
- Description: county in Ireland
- Also known as: “Co Louth”, “IE-LH”, and “Louth”
- Neighbors: County Armagh, County Meath, County Monaghan, and Northern Ireland
- Location: Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“County Louth” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة لاوث”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه لاوث”
- Asturian: “Condáu de Louth”
- Azerbaijani: “Laut”
- Balinese: “County Louth”
- Basque: “Louth konderria”
- Basque: “Loutheko konderri”
- Basque: “Loutheko konderria”
- Belarusian: “графства Лаўт”
- Bengali: “কাউন্টি লৌথ”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Louth”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Lú”
- Bulgarian: “Лаут”
- Catalan: “comtat de Louth”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Louth”
- Cebuano: “Lú”
- Central Kurdish: “کاونتی لۆس”
- Chinese: “Louth Kūn”
- Chinese: “劳斯郡”
- Chinese: “勞斯郡”
- Czech: “County Louth”
- Czech: “Hrabství Louth”
- Czech: “Louth”
- Czech: “Lú”
- Danish: “County Louth”
- Dutch: “County Louth”
- Esperanto: “Contae Lú”
- Esperanto: “County Louth”
- Esperanto: “Graflando Louth”
- Estonian: “Louthi krahvkond”
- Faroese: “County Louth”
- Finnish: “Louthin kreivikunta”
- French: “comté de Louth”
- French: “Comté de Louth”
- French: “IE-LH”
- French: “Louth”
- Galician: “Condado de Louth”
- Georgian: “ლაუთის საგრაფო”
- Georgian: “ლაუტის საგრაფო”
- German: “County Louth”
- German: “IE-LH”
- German: “Louth”
- Greek: “κομητεία Λάουδ”
- Greek: “Λάουδ”
- Gujarati: “કાઉન્ટી લાઉથ”
- Hebrew: “מחוז לאות‘”
- Hebrew: “מחוז לאות’”
- Hindi: “काउंटी लाउथ”
- Hungarian: “Louth megye”
- Indonesian: “County Louth”
- Irish: “Co. Lú”
- Irish: “Contae Lú”
- Irish: “Contae Lughbhadh”
- Irish: “Contae Lughmhagh”
- Irish: “Lú”
- Italian: “Contea di Louth”
- Italian: “County Louth”
- Italian: “Louth”
- Japanese: “ラウス県”
- Kannada: “ಕೌಂಟಿ ಲೌತ್”
- Korean: “라우스주”
- Kurdish: “County Louth”
- Latin: “Comitatus Ludensis”
- Latvian: “Lautas grāfiste”
- Lithuanian: “Laudo grafystė”
- Lithuanian: “Lauto grafystė”
- Lithuanian: “Loutas”
- Lithuanian: “Louto grafystė”
- Macedonian: “Лаут”
- Malay: “County Louth”
- Manx: “Coontae Lhoo”
- Marathi: “काउंटी लोऊथ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Louth Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Louth”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “An Lú”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “County Louth”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Louth”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Contae Lú”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “County Louth”
- Norwegian: “Louth”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “IE-LH”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lūþ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lūþscīr”
- Persian: “شهرستان لوث”
- Polish: “Louth”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Louth”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Louth”
- Romanian: “Judeţul Louth”
- Romanian: “Județul Louth”
- Russian: “Графство Лаут”
- Russian: “Лаут”
- Scots: “Coontie Louth”
- Scots: “Coonty Louth”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae Lú”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae Lughbhadh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae Lughmhagh”
- Serbian: “Laud”
- Serbian: “Лауд”
- Sinhala: “ලවුත් ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Grófstvo Louth”
- Slovak: “Louth”
- Slovenian: “County Louth”
- Slovenian: “Louth”
- Spanish: “condado de Louth”
- Spanish: “Condado de Louth”
- Spanish: “IE-LH”
- Spanish: “Louth”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Louth”
- Swedish: “County Louth”
- Swedish: “Louth”
- Swedish: “minsta grevskapet”
- Swedish: “wee county”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Louz”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Лоуз”
- Tamil: “கவுண்டி லூத்”
- Telugu: “లౌత్ కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลเลาท์”
- Thai: “ลูธ”
- Turkish: “Co Louth”
- Turkish: “Co Lú”
- Turkish: “Co. Louth”
- Turkish: “Co. Lú”
- Turkish: “Contae Lú”
- Turkish: “County Louth”
- Turkish: “IE-LH”
- Turkish: “Louth Co.”
- Turkish: “Louth County”
- Turkish: “Louth ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Louth Kontluğu”
- Turkish: “Lú ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Lú”
- Ukrainian: “графство Лаут”
- Ukrainian: “Лаут (графство)”
- Ukrainian: “Лаут”
- Urdu: “کاؤنٹی لاوتھ”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Louth”
- Welsh: “IE-LH”
- Welsh: “Louth”
- Welsh: “Swydd Louth”
- Western Panjabi: “لاؤتھ”
- Wu Chinese: “劳斯郡”
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