Louth

Louth, the smallest Irish county, in Leinster, stretches from Carlingford Bay to the estuary of the Boyne, washed by the Irish Sea; the country is flat and the soil fertile, potatoes, oats, and barley are grown; there are coarse linen manufactures and oyster fisheries; rich in antiquities, its chief towns are Dundalk (12), Drogheda (12), and Ardee (2).

Population (circa 1900) given as 71,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)