Dundalk, Ireland Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Although DUNDALK has a reputation as a tough border town, home to uncompromising Republicanism, it still has enough interest to justify a visit. Industrial estates on the outskirts show signs of a burgeoning recent prosperity, a reflection of the town's strategic position economically on the main transport routes from Dublin to Belfast. Starting life in legendary prehistory as a fort guarding a gap in the mountains to the north (Dún Dealga , the "Fortress of Dealga"), it became in turn a Celtic, Norse, Anglo-Norman, Jacobean and finally Williamite stronghold. This defensive tradition … more »