Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Dundalk. You may be able to find further references to Dundalk in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Dundalk	capital of county, seaport town, market town, parish, and township	Bartholomew
DUNDALK	a sea-port, borough, market and post-town, and parish	Lewis:Ireland

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Dundalk within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Arthur Young	21st to 31st July 1776: Down, Armagh and Antrim	2
Arthur Young	19th to 30th June 1776: Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Westmeath	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer