13 Facts About County Louth

County Louth is a coastal county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster.

County 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.

County Louth is named after the village of Louth, which in turn is named after Lugh, a god of the ancient Irish.

County Louth's army was finally defeated and Edward was killed in the Battle of Faughart near Dundalk, by a chiefly local force led by John de Bermingham.

Until the late 16th century, 1596, County Louth was considered part of Ulster, before becoming part of Leinster after a conference held at Faughart between the Chiefs of Ulster, on the Irish side, and the Ulster-born Miler Magrath, Anglican Archbishop of Cashel, and Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond on that of the English.

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County Louth is bordered by four counties - Meath to the south, Monaghan to the west, Armagh to the north, and Down to the northeast.

County Louth has a temperate oceanic climate, with cool humid summers and mild winters, strongly influenced by Atlantic ocean currents.

The coldest temperature ever recorded in County Louth was on 1 January 1979, when the temperature at Ardee fell to -15.

County Louth has two dominant population centres, Dundalk, located in the north of the county, and Drogheda, located in the south on the border with County Louth Meath.

County Louth has experienced a rapid rate of population growth since the 1960s, nearly doubling in size over the fifty years between the census of 1966 and that of 2016.

In contrast to the other counties in the Mid-East Region, which are characterised by widespread migration from Dublin, County Louth has one of the highest proportions of native residents in Ireland.

County Louth is located within the archdiocese of Armagh in the Roman Catholic Church, and the Archbishop of Armagh has been recognised by the Vatican as the "Primate of All Ireland" since 1353.

Since the implementation of the Local Government Reform Act 2014 on 1 June 2014, County Louth has been subdivided into four local electoral areas for elections to Louth County Council and three municipal districts for local government, which are:.