County Louth, highlighted.

Choose from topics below for stories of people, families, events and places connected to County Louth’s past.

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Vanishing Ireland (Louth people)

• John Mathis (c. 1927-2014) – The Thatcher of Annagassan
• Margaret ‘Nana’ McKenny (1918-?), Nurse & Nanny – Ardee
• Donal Duffy (1920-2007) – Ravensdale Piper & London Exile

County Louth – Family Histories

• Brabazon, Barons Ardee
• Connolly of Dundalk
• Brabazon Disney – A Mostly Clerical Family
• Disney of Stebannon
• Foster of Collon and Dunleer – Ambassadors, Speakers, Lovers Extraordinaire
• McClintock of Drumcar, see under ‘People’ section below.
• McClintock of Newtown
• Moore of Moore Abbey – Earls of Drogheda

People connected to County Louth

• Saint Brigid of Kildare
• Sir Arthur Aston and the siege of Drogheda of 1649, referenced here.
• Alexander McClintock of Drumcar (1692-1775)
• ‘Bumper Jack’ – John McClintock (1743-1799)
• John ‘Old Turnip’ McClintock (1769-1855) of Drumcar, County Louth
• John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell (1798-1879)
• Hugh Usher Tighe, Rector of Clonmore
• The Brontë Sisters
• Sultan Abdülmecid & the Relief of Drogheda, 1847
• Admiral Sir Leopold McClintock & His Family
• Edward Lear, Champion of Nonsense
• Des Smyth – Champion Golfer

Places in Louth

• Ardee
• Drogheda
• Drumcar
• Dundalk
• The Sea Lodge, Dunany Point.

Articles with a Louth Connection

• An tSlí Mhór (The Great Way) and the Esker Riada
• A Short History of Irish Gold
• Ancient Kildare & the Kings of Leinster
• The Forgotten Cult of St John the Baptist
• Vikings on Irish Waterways
• Normans on the Irish Waterways
• The Cistercian Order in Ireland
• Rise & Fall of the Knights Templar – The Irish Experience
• Men in Tights – The Battle of the Boyne 1690
• Ireland’s Wine Geese
• Keeping it in the Family –  A Short Study of Nepotism under the Anglo-Irish
• How Ireland’s MPs voted in the Act of Union in 1799 & 1800
• North Louth Burning 1816: The Wild Goose Lodge Inferno Retold by Brian Hopkins
• The Night of the Big Wind, 1839
• Of Chloroform, Ether and poor Mary Kane of County Louth, 1847
• Sultan Abdülmecid: A Tale of Pianos, Telegraphs, Etiquette and Hunger
• The Drogheda FC Flag and the Relief of Drogheda, 1847
• The Christmas Truce, 1914 – An Irish Perspective
• Death at Hulluch, 1916 – Killer Gas in the Great War
• The Forgotten Fadgies: From Omeath To West Belfast – A Guest Post by Brian Hopkins
• Joe Biden’s Irish Roots
• Maxol – The History of an Irish Family Company
• The Rathdonnell Papers (PRONI)