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Rh DUNDALK. 830 DUNDEE. The towns and vils. are Carlingford, Bollagan, Ballina- maul ;il Wliitt stown. Upper 1> contains the purs, of Barronstown, Ballybarraek, ]>un- dalk, Diinbin, Faughart, I! 0, Haggardstown, Kane, Itoch, Philipetown, and parts ol hiish- . and Louth, comprising 30,360 acres. The b includes a considerable mountain range, and is tra- versed l>y the rivers Fain- and Castletown. DUNDALK, a par., parliamentary borough, and maritime town, locally situated in the hund. of the same name, in the co. of Louth, of which it is tin- county town. It is situated in 5-4 1' N. Int. . NV. long., at the mouth of the small river of Castletown, in Dundalk Bay. It has stations on UK Irish Xurth- Western and Dublin and Belfast Junction railways. The borough contains a population by the census return of 1861, of 10,404, and is governed by a bailiff burgesses, and returns one member to the imperial par- liament. It is a place of considerable antiquity. The earliest historical notice we possess occurs in 1180, when John de Courcy was defeated here, with great loss, by the Irish. In the reigns of Henry II. and Henry III. an Augustine Priory and Franciscan Friary were founded here ; one tower, and gome other slight i however, are all that now remain. For a short timu this town was the residence of Edward Bruce, who was crowned here, and held his court hero until the fatal battle in which he was slain. In the reign of Richard II. it was made a free borough, and in that of Henry IV. permission was granted to sur- round the town with walls. In 1560 it was besieged by the O'Xials, but was so valiantly defended that they abandoned their design. In 1649 it was compelled to surrender to Cromwell. The town consists of two principal streets, about a mile in length, intersecting each other in the market square, and of several smaller streets ; they contain some good shops and houses, but a large portion of the town is poor and wretched in the extreme. The southern entrance has been greatly improved by the erection of several handsome houses ; at the northern extremity is a bridge over the Castle- town river, connecting it with a small suburb on the opposite side ; at the eastern end is a spacious cavalry barrack. The chief public buildings are the county court-house, exchange, infirmary, prison, guildhall, mar- ket-house, grammar and National schools, and the barracks. The streets are paved and lighted with gas. A literary society has been established ; and there are two subscription newsrooms, and a good assembly-room. A hunt is supported, and races are occasionally held here. Petty sessions are held every Saturday ; the assizes for the county and the quarter sessions are also held here. The chief architectural object of any pre- tension is the court-house, a handsome modern edifice ; it is situated in the middle of the town, and contains two spacious and well- arranged courts, a chapel, a school, and a hospital. There are also three new banks, a gaol, and commercial building. The manufactures of Dundalk are tobacco, soap, leather, and starch ; the cambric manufacture was formerly carried on, but has now ceased. Timber, coal, iron, slate, grain, and cattle, which form the chief trade, arc exported to Liver- Cl, and other British ports. The port and harbour o recently been greatly improved by widening and i ling the channel, and removing the bar at the mouth of the river, so that vessels drawing 16 )' water can come up. A lighthouse, on tho serew-pilr principle has been erected at the bar. The living is a vie. in the dioc. of Armagh, and in the gift of the lord primate and the Karl of Roden. Tho church is an elegant cruciform structure, with a double transept. Then. 1 are three Roman Catholic chapels, a friary, u con- vent, a monastery, ami also I in and Methodist meeting-houses. The chief schools are the endow, i sical school, the Dnndalk Institution, and th nis iSmith. Near th" town is a sprint; arch- (1 over with ancient masonry, culled the I.i'ly VI1. On the plains of Ballynahatna are the remains of a Druidical temple partly enclosed by a curved rampart ; and near this place is a circular fort, surrounded by a fosse ar rampart, supposed n thrown up by 1 1 inhabitants. Tin i -papers 'in tile -V- and the I)undalk " . Monday day. Fairs ]it May, when it i ;th. m'NDKK, a par. in the co. !' Forfai of a main body and a detach* M main portion is bounded on the S. by (lie Fin mi tile W. by Lill', on the- F,. byllanilii X. by the pars, of IjitV, Mains, and MM: house. This portion n: in S.V. t v.-ith a breadth of from U mile to '1 mil iv is situated to the X.F.. of the u tion, and is surrounded by the par. of Muirhi sides except tho AV., which is bounded by The surface of the main body rises gently i. from the firth until to the X. ot 'tin - the height of about 500 feet in tin' hill called I'M: (from which there is a mafniilieont view in all d and the more western and lesser c Hill. These slopes present a very beautiful a ; from the firth and the opposite shore. Tin of the parish is for the most part poor, while i: eastern division is good. Hero the estuary o: varies in width from 1 mile to '2 large masses of porphyry on the land> freestone is abundant in the detached principal estates are Craigic. hope, Clepington, Blackness, llaldov, Duntroon, and Yst-Fc n y. There ar. of communication in all direct in is by land and by wi This par. is the seat of a pm.l>. in the and M earns. There are 1 i hos, ct its minister, under th> The first minister has a stipend the others 275. There are also i St. Andrew's, Chapelshade. and ".o ministers of the two former of stipend of about 200. Thei churches, six United l'iv~b lei lai. longing to the Independents, and : There are also places of v. Presbyterians, the Original Seci Hans, tho Old Scottish Indepen i the Wesleyan Methodists, tin I the Christian Unionists, tho Romae. Latter-Day Saints. The principal tions are the English school, grammar academy, which are united in the S im; at the head of Reform-street. In t chief branches of a liberal education there are many other schools, some of which have : | nigh reputation. DUNDEE, a royal burgh in the co. land. This town is an extenMvi manufacture, and is the third large:-! town ii It is situated for tho most part in the par. ol liinn" also partly in the par. of Lift' a ml !' N. lat., and 3 2' 55" W. long., on Firth of Tay, I miles V. of iirouu'i "d 14 hy '. of Forfar. Tho ground which Dundee oecin i-ibed as a strip exlen mil riMti"- gently to the northward Law and I'alic.iy Hill. The town is ' ind the chief streets extend W. and K. i md are named 1'. rth-road, Xeth Seagate, and the Croft. X'early parallel t here is another line to the northward of the form composed of the streets named Hawk-hill and i > which last, after joining the II: M ISM* i No a t B I north-we Barters of a mile from gate, 'Wellv 1'lie town is gradually noithwaids tin aeelivities in its rear. Many of (he old str pietiae i)uo from their narrowness, and the