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Louth Gaelic Footballers
Louth may refer to: Australia *Hundred of Louth, a cadastral unit in South Australia * Louth, New South Wales, a town *Louth Bay, a bay in South Australia **Louth Bay, South Australia, a town and locality Canada * Louth, Ontario Ireland * County Louth, Ireland ** Louth GAA, a Gaelic games association *** Louth county football team **Louth, County Louth, a village in the heart of the county Louth **County Louth Historic Names, Listing of historically documented names for Louth, village & county **Louth (Parliament of Ireland constituency) (1692–1801) **County Louth (UK Parliament constituency) (1801–1885, 1918–1922), Ireland **North Louth (UK Parliament constituency) (1885–1918) **South Louth (UK Parliament constituency) (1885–1918) ** Louth (Dáil constituency), Ireland United Kingdom * Louth, Lincolnshire, England ** Louth, Lincolnshire (UK Parliament constituency) Louth was a county constituency in Lincolnshire which returned one Member of Parl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Of Louth
The Hundred of Louth is a hundred within County of Flinders, South Australia. It is on the Eyre Peninsula and was proclaimed in 1857. The traditional owners of the land are the Nauo peoples.David Horton (ed.), Aboriginal Australia Map, published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia (AIATSIS. 1994). See also * Lands administrative divisions of South Australia References Louth Louth may refer to: Australia *Hundred of Louth, a cadastral unit in South Australia * Louth, New South Wales, a town * Louth Bay, a bay in South Australia **Louth Bay, South Australia, a town and locality Canada * Louth, Ontario Ireland * Cou ... l {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Louth Historic Names
This is a list of the historical names for 'Louth', the village and county in Ireland. The Placenames Branch, Dept. of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht undertakes research into the placenames of Ireland to provide authoritative Irish language versions of those placenames for official and public use. Below are from surviving records are a result of their research. Native sources Native sources (Irish and Latin) from 6th - 19th century. Official sources 12th – 16th century Official administrative sources (Church and state) 12th – 16th century. 20th century Official administrative sources (state) 20th century. Controversy over County name In 1964, the provisional official form 'Lú' was published in . It was in 1969 that the form Lú was adopted as the official Irish form and was published as such in . In 1973, all of the Irish forms published in , including the form Lú, were given legal status in (Uimhir 1, Bailte Poist) / The Placenames Order (Irish forms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louth, Lincolnshire
Louth () is a market town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.OS Explorer map 283:Louth and Mablethorpe: (1:25 000): Louth serves as an important town for a large rural area of eastern Lincolnshire. Visitor attractions include St James' Church, Hubbard's Hills, the market, many independent retailers, and Lincolnshire's last remaining cattle market. Geography Louth is at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds where they meet the Lincolnshire Marsh. It developed where the ancient trackway along the Wolds, known as the Barton Street, crossed the River Lud. The town is east of a gorge carved into the Wolds that forms the Hubbard's Hills. This area was formed from a glacial overspill channel in the last glacial period. The River Lud meanders through the gorge before entering the town. To the direct south east of Louth is the village of Legbourne, to the north east is the village of Keddington, to the north west is the village of South Elking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louth (Dáil Constituency)
Louth is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 5 deputies ( Teachtaà Dála, commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). Boundaries The constituency was created by the Electoral Act 1923, and first used at the 1923 general election. It currently spans the entire area of County Louth, the smallest county in Ireland, and East Meath, taking in Dundalk, Drogheda, Laytown, Bettystown, Mornington and Ardee. The boundaries enlarged at the 2011 general election to include an area of County Meath adjacent to the town of Drogheda. This followed a recommendation of the Report of the Constituency Commission on Dáil and European Parliament Constituencies 2007 outlined "by extending the constituency southwards from, and in the environs of, Drogheda and taking in electoral divisions which have extensive linkages with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Louth (UK Parliament Constituency)
South Louth was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected on a system of first-past-the-post, from 1885 to 1918. Prior to the 1885 general election and after the dissolution of Parliament in 1918 the area was part of the Louth constituency. Boundaries This constituency comprised the southern part of County Louth including the towns of Drogheda and Ardee. The seat was defined under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 as comprising the baronies of Drogheda and Ferrard, that part of the barony of Ardee not contained within the constituency of North Louth, and the county of the town of Drogheda. Members of Parliament Elections ''The elections in this constituency took place using the first past the post In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or info ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Louth (UK Parliament Constituency)
North Louth was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected on a system of first-past-the-post, from 1885 to 1918. Prior to the 1885 general election and after the dissolution of Parliament in 1918 the area was part of the Louth constituency. Boundaries This constituency comprised the northern part of County Louth. The seat was defined under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict., c. 23) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was a piece of electoral reform legislation that redistributed the seats in the House of Commons, introducing the concept of equal ... as comprising the baronies of Louth, Lower Dundalk and Upper Dundalk, and that part of the barony of Ardee contained within the parishes of Killany and Louth. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 1880s Elections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Louth (UK Parliament Constituency)
County Louth, otherwise known as Louth County or Louth, is a former parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1801 to 1885 it returned two Members of Parliament (MPs), and one from 1918 to 1922. Boundaries From 1801 to 1885, the constituency comprised the whole of County Louth, except for the parliamentary boroughs of Drogheda and Dundalk. Between 1885 and 1918 the county was divided into the county division constituencies North Louth and South Louth. In 1918, the reunited constituency covered the entire county of Louth plus a small part of County Meath near Drogheda. History Louth was a constituency in the first Dáil election in December 1918 when Sinn Féin won by 255 votes, its narrowest margin of victory in that election. John J. O'Kelly, a native of Kerry, resident in Glasnevin (Dublin), was Louth's first TD. The constituency was merged with Meath to form the 5 seat Louth†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louth (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
Louth was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive fra ... to 1801. Members of Parliament * 1370: Roger Gernon, Richard Vernon * 1420: Bartholomew Vernon, Richard Bagot * 1560: Nicholas Taaffe of Ballebragane and Edward Dowdall of Glaspistal * 1585: Roger Gerlone (Garland) and William Moore of Barmeath * 1613–1315: Christopher Verdon de Clonmore and Richard Gernon de Stabanan * 1634–1635: Sir Christopher Bellew and Christopher Dowdall * 1639–1642: Christopher Bellew and John Bellew (both expelled) * 1642–1644: Philip, Lord Lisle and Col. Lawrence Crawford (both absent in England without leave) * 1644–1649: Hon Francis Moore and Gerrard Moore * 1659: John Ruxton * 1661–1666: Henry Bellingham and Sir Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louth, County Louth
Louth () is a village at the heart of County Louth, Ireland. It is roughly 11 km south-west of the town of Dundalk, 10.9 km to neighbouring town Ardee. The village is approximately 15 km south-east of Carrickmacross town in County Monaghan. The village gave its name to the county. Etymology The village is named after Lugh, a god of the ancient Irish, and may once have been the site of a shrine dedicated to the god. Historically, the place-name was spelt in variously different ways such as; "''Lughmhagh"'', "''Lughmhadh"'' and "''Lughbhadh"''. The first is thought to mean "Lugh's plain" or "Lugh's field", but the meaning of the other two is unclear. ''Lú'' is the modern simplified spelling. History According to tradition, Mochta—a Christian missionary from Britain—founded a monastery at Louth in the 6th century, known today as St. Mochta's House. In the 1920s the structure was completely dismantled and rebuilt in an attempt to save it from damage caus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louth, New South Wales
Louth is a village on the eastern side of the Darling River in New South Wales, Australia. The village is in Bourke Shire, 99 kilometres south west of Bourke and 132 kilometres north west of Cobar. The town is made famous by the Louth Races which are held in August each year, attracting crowds of nearly five thousand.The Age - Louth Retrieved on 2009-7-3 At the 2016 census, Louth and the surrounding region had a population of 43. The community has a pub (which serves as a cafe and store), school, tennis club and turf club. The town was established in 1859 when Thomas Andrew Mathews, an [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louth County Football Team
The Louth county football team represents Louth in men's Gaelic football and is governed by Louth GAA, the county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes in the three major annual inter-county competitions; the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Leinster Senior Football Championship and the National Football League. Louth's home ground is Drogheda Park, Drogheda. The team's manager is Mickey Harte. The team last won the Leinster Senior Championship in 1957, the All-Ireland Senior Championship in 1957 and has never won the National League. History The earliest recorded inter-county football match took place in 1712 when Louth faced Meath at Slane. A fragment of a poem from 1806 records a football match between Louth and Fermanagh at Inniskeen, Co Monaghan. When Louth GAA sent the team into training in Dundalk for the 1913 Croke Memorial replay under a soccer trainer from Belfast, the move caused more than a ripple through the Association. For thir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louth GAA
The Louth County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) ( ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, Coiste Chontae an Lú) or Louth GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Louth. The county board is also responsible for the Louth county teams. Crest In 2010, the Drogheda Gaelic football club, O'Raghallaigh's, tabled a motion for convention calling for the Boyne Valley Cable Bridge symbol to be removed from the Louth GAA crest because of the bridge's main location being in the neighbouring county of Meath; this led to the county crest being changed to a simpler version. Ógspórt Lú Ógspórt Lú is the organisation in County Louth for the promotion of Gaelic Games and Activities among young children. Its approach is new and innovative, concentrating on maximum participation, skill development and the inculcation of best practice. It was founded in 2007 following a consultative process that identified the need for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
