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Dundalk , town (1991 pop. 30,061), 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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Dundalk, Canada, Ireland, USA 1. Canada (Ontario): named by settlers after the Irish town.2. Ireland: the Irish name is Dún Dealgan ‘Dealga(n)'s Fort’ after a local chieftain.

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