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LOUTH

Volume 17 · 279 words · 1810 Edition

a town of Lincolnshire in England, 156 miles from London. It is a town corporate; and one of the handsomest and gayest in the county, there being in it not only frequent assemblies, concerts, &c., but even masquerades. Here are several handsome houses. From hence there is a canal to the sea at Tilney, about eight miles. Besides a charity school for 40 children, it has a free school founded by Edward VI. with a large church, and a fine steeple, which some think is as high as Grantham spire, which is 288 feet.

a county in the eastern part of Ireland, which extends in the form of a bow or half-moon, on the side of the ocean, being much longer than it is broad; it is bounded on the south and south-west by the county of East Meath, on the north-west by Monaghan, on the north by Armagh, and on the north-east Louth, east by the bay of Carlingford, which parts it from the county of Down; it is watered by several small rivers which fall into the sea; and its south frontiers are watered by the river Boyne. Its chief towns are Dundalk and Carlingford; unless we include Drogheda, a part whereof is in this county. It is the smallest county in the kingdom; but very fertile and pleasant, and abounding with many remains of antiquities, of which Mr Wright, in his Louthiana, has given a very ample description. It contains 111,180 Irish plantation acres, 50 parishes, five baronies, and five boroughs; and formerly returned 10 members to parliament: it is about 22 miles long, and 14 broad.

town in the above county, having a yearly fair.