Dundalk
| Dundalk Dún Dealgan Dundalk |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 0 '12 " N , 6 ° 24' 9" W | ||
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Motto "Mé do rug Cu Chulainn cróga" I gave birth to brave Cu Chulainn |
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| Country | Ireland | ||
| Leinster | |||
| county | Louth | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | IE-LH | ||
| surface | 24.7 km² | ||
| Residents | 31,073 (2011) | ||
| density | 1259 Ew. / km² | ||
| Telephone code | 042 | ||
| Website | www.dundalk.ie (English) | ||
 St Patricks Church Dundalk
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Dundalk ( Irish : Dún Dealgan ) is the capital of Louth County in the province of Leinster in Ireland and was founded around 1189.
The Irish name Dún Dealgan means as much as Dealgas Fort and is related to the mystical Irish hero Cú Chulainn . The city, 80 kilometers north of Dublin , had around 31,000 inhabitants in 2011.
Dundalk is on the M1 / N1 National Primary Route, exactly between Ireland's two largest cities, Dublin and Belfast ; the distance to the Northern Irish border is just under 10 kilometers. The city has access to the Irish Sea through Dundalk Bay and also has a small harbor . The travel time to Dublin International Airport, which is around 70 kilometers away, is around 80 minutes by bus and 50 minutes by car on the M1. Dundalk can also be reached by train; the city is on the Dublin – Belfast railway line.
Among the numerous churches in Dundalk, the Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Church , built on the model of King's College Chapel in Cambridge and completed in 1847, is the largest in the city.
The city center offers four major shopping centers. Dundalk has a considerable number of pubs , hotels , night clubs and a cinema complex with seven cinemas . Golfer's Paradise consists of four 18-hole golf courses .
2004 was a modern stadium for Greyhound - dog racing and horse racing opened.
The largest educational institution is the Dundalk Institute of Technology (DKIT), one of 14 universities of its kind in Ireland.
Several international companies such as Xerox , ABB , Coca-Cola , Diageo , Quantum and Heinz have offices in the Dundalk region .
Dundalk is also home to the hit pop band The Corrs and home to Dundalk FC football club .
Town twinning
Dundalk has been in partnership with the French town of Rezé in the Pays de la Loire region since 1990 .
sons and daughters of the town
- Richard FitzRalph (around 1300–1360), theologian, Archbishop of Armagh
- Francis Leopold McClintock (1819–1907), Rear Admiral in the British Navy and eminent Arctic explorer
- Roland Foster (1879–1966), Australian singer and music teacher
- Pádraig Faulkner (1918–2012), politician
- Maeve O'Brien-Kelly (born 1930), author
- Peter Rice (1935–1992), Irish engineer and author
- Liam Reilly (* 1955), Irish singer-songwriter
- Emer Costello (* 1962), Irish Labor Party politician , from Blackrock / Dundalk
- John Moore (born 1970), Irish director and screenwriter
- Caroline, Sharon , Jim and Andrea Corr , members of the band The Corrs
- Niall Breen (* 1986), racing driver
- Rob Kearney (born 1986), rugby player
- Adam Pepper (* 1991), ice hockey goalkeeper
Web links
- Official site of the City Council (English)