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Louth (Dáil Éireann constituency)

Louth is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 5 deputies ( Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

Louth

Louth is the name of several locations around the world:

Australia
  • Louth, New South Wales, Australia
  • Louth Bay, a bay in South Australia
    • Louth Bay, South Australia, a locality
Canada
  • Louth, Ontario
Ireland
  • County Louth, Ireland
    • 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 Éireann constituency), Ireland
United Kingdom
  • Louth, Lincolnshire, England
    • Louth, Lincolnshire (UK Parliament constituency) (1885–1983), in England
Louth (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Louth was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.

Louth (barony)

Louth is a barony in County Louth, Republic of Ireland.

Usage examples of "louth".

He was the eldest son of inspector Corley of the G division, lately deceased, who had married a certain Katherine Brophy, the daughter of a Louth farmer.

Alford and Louth which he attended, and when he was about thirteen he sold his books and satchel and intended to run away to sea: but the death of his father stayed him.

He represented Great Britain in the 100 metres in the early sixties, and became the youngest member of the House of Commons when he won the by-election at Louth in 1969.

Ireland, was born at Faughart in county Louth, her father being a prince of Ulster.

Michael and I first met in 1969 when he was Vicar of Louth and I was the Member of Parliament for that beautiful constituency.

What was done by landlords and middlemen in many places has been emulated by squatters wherever they have succeeded in occupying free land like the Commons of Ardfert, the condition whereof rivals that of Lurgankeale, in Louth, and of the historic townland of Tibarney, in common, a map of which hung, if I mistake not, for some time in the Library of the House of Commons.

In County Louth, Ireland, boys used to carry about a thorn-bush decked with streamers of coloured paper and with a wren tied to one of the branches.

They arrived at Ware exhausted and fell straight to sleep, and were off again at first light racing north, then east to Louth, and farther east toward the sea.