Aboveve: View In Leinster

County Louth, the smallest county in Ireland, borders the Irish Sea, and forms the shores of Dundalk Bay. Carlingford Bay separates Louth and Down. On the south border is the river Boyne.

Dundalk, on Dundalk Bay, the county town, exports grain, provisions, and cattle.
Drogheda, on the Boyne, also exports farm produce. Near it was fought the battle of the Boyne, when William the Third, Prince of Orange, defeated James the Second in 1690. Garlingford, on a bay of the same name, has an oyster-fishery.

County Dublin is a small county on the Irish Sea. The coast is much broken, forming Howth Head and Dublin Bay. Off Howth lies a pretty little island called Ireland’s Eye. At Balbriggan the sands are so good, and the shore so beautiful, as to bo called the ” Velvet Strand.”

The Wicklow Mountains extend into County Dublin in the south, and approach within a few miles of the capital. The river Liffey flows through the middle of the county into Dublin Bay.

Dublin, the county town, is the chief town in Leinster, and the capital and chief sea-port of Ireland. It stands on the river Liffey, and lies west of Liverpool, across the Irish Sea. It is a handsome city, and few places of the same size have so many fine public buildings. Here is the residence of the Viceroy; and it contains the university and Trinity College founded by Queen Elizabeth in 1592. The population is about 286,000. Kingstown, seven miles from Dublin, is the mail-packet station for Holyhead, from which the distance across the Irish Sea is sixty-four miles Balbriggan.