Dundalk, meaning "the fort of Dealgan", is the county town of County Louth, Ireland.
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26 Facts About Dundalk
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Dundalk Stadium is a horse and greyhound racing venue and is Ireland's only all-weather horse racing track.
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Archaeological studies at Rockmarshall indicate that the Dundalk area was first inhabited circa 3700 BC following the end of the last Ice Age, during the Neolithic period.
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Dundalk was awarded the lands around what is Dundalk by Prince John on the death of Murchadh O Cearbhaill in 1189.
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On de Verdun's death in Jaffa in 1192, his lands at Dundalk passed to his son Thomas and then to his second son, Nicholas, when Thomas died.
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Effectively a frontier town as the northernmost outpost of The Pale, Dundalk continued to grow as the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries progressed.
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The forfeiture of property and settlements carried out during the Restoration saw much of the land of Dundalk granted to Marcus Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon, who had fought for both sides in the war.
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Dundalk entrenched himself at Dundalk and declined to be drawn beyond the circle of his defences.
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Several portions of the Roden Dundalk estate were sold off under the auspices of the various land acts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, culminating in the Irish Free State government lands purchase acts of the 1920s.
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Dundalk was sunk by a German U-Boat on 14 October 1918 on a voyage from Liverpool back to Dundalk.
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The Dundalk Distillery was closed within weeks, as its products became nonviable.
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Dundalk was later executed in 1941 for shooting at Gardai and Defence Forces while trying to evade arrest.
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Layout of Dundalk is based around three principal street systems leading to the open, central Market Square.
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Dundalk is represented in the European Parliament within the Midlands–North-West constituency.
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Dundalk Distillery was established c 1780 at Roden Place and operated successfully throughout the 19th century.
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Dundalk is the first station on the southern side of the border along the Belfast–Dublin line.
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Dundalk Gaol was completed in 1855 and closed as a gaol in the 1930s.
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Dundalk during World War I At Soldiers Point there is a bronze sculpture called The Sea God Managuan and Voyagers after a Celtic god of the sea.
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Primary schools in Dundalk include some Irish language-medium schools like Gaelscoil Dhun Dealgan.
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Dundalk has two centres for the arts—An Tain Arts Centre, an independent arts space in the former Tain Theatre, Town Hall, Crowe Street; and The Oriel Centre in the former Dundalk Gaol, a regional centre for Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann.
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The Spirit Store, located at George's Quay in the Port of Dundalk, is a gig venue in the town.
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Dundalk R F C is an amateur Irish Rugby football club who compete in Division 1A of the Leinster League.
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Dundalk Racecourse was reopened as Dundalk Stadium in 2007 and now holds both horse racing and greyhound racing meetings.
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Dundalk has several game angling waters including the Dee, Glyde, Fane, Ballymascanlan and Castletown rivers.
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