Louth takes its name from the ancient god Lugh of the Tuatha Dé Danann. The smallest of Ireland’s thirty-two counties, it carries a history far greater than its size — from the Boyne Valley to the mountains of the Cooley Peninsula.
Contae Lú · The Wee County · Leinster
Louth takes its name from the ancient god Lugh of the Tuatha Dé Danann. The smallest of Ireland’s thirty-two counties, it carries a history far greater than its size — from the Boyne Valley to the mountains of the Cooley Peninsula.
This is the land of the Táin Bó Cúailnge, the Cattle Raid of Cooley, in which Cú Chulainn stood alone against the armies of Queen Medb — its towns of Drogheda and Dundalk witness to the great turns of Irish history.
