Dundalk, town, Republic of Ireland

Dundalk dəndôkˈ [key], town, seat of Co. Louth, NE Republic of Ireland, near the mouth of the Castletown River at Dundalk Bay. It has a port that exports livestock, barley, and other crops. Industries include tobacco, clothing, shoe, and computer factories, distilleries and breweries, flour and linen mills, fishing. Dundalk is also a railroad center with facilities for the manufacture and maintenance of railroad equipment. The town was often besieged because of its location at a natural pass into N Ireland.

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