Dundalk, Ireland
Dundalk, Ireland
Seaport, County Louth, on the Castletown River. It contains the ruins of a Franciscan priory . Here Edward Bruce, invading Ireland from Scotland, proclaimed himself king and was defeated and killed by the English in 1318 . It is a mensal parish of the Archdiocese of Armagh . The Marist Fathers came here to conduct a college in 1861 .