placenamesLouth
Lú
The wider parish’s nineteenth-century institutions served farming districts beyond Louth village.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Lú · Irish · main form · validated name
- Louth · English · main form
Place & story
A parish across three baronies
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account places Louth parish across three baronies: Louth, Ardee and Upper Dundalk. Its farming land was chiefly cultivated for crops, with little bog. Milling accompanied that agricultural economy. Lewis recorded a substantial flour mill at Channon Rock and two corn mills near the parish’s southern boundary with Killincoole, showing that processing grain extended beyond the parish town. [2]
Schools on the estates
About 500 children attended four public schools in Lewis’s account, while five private schools taught roughly another 400. The town’s parochial school had an infants’ department. Outside it, Erasmus Smith’s trustees supported a school near Glyde Farm, with help from the rector. A school on the Stephenstown estate received support from both the rector and M. Fortescue. [2]
Care brought to the home
The parish also had a dispensary for people unable to pay for medical care. Lewis specifically recorded visits to patients who could not attend in person. Religious provision likewise reached several settlements: his account identifies Catholic chapels at Louth, Knockbridge and Stonetown, rather than a single chapel serving the entire civil parish. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Louth
- Barony
- Ardee
- Barony
- Louth
- Barony
- Dundalk Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.96197, -6.51247
- Mapped area
- 71.98 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2842 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Louth. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Louth parish, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), pp58–59 in transcription · Samuel Lewis; transcription hosted by Brendan Hall
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