19 / 29Recorded history
1740s–1750s
A town begins to redraw itself
Dundalk's familiar streets carry the imprint of an eighteenth-century redevelopment programme. Louth County Council's study of the town's urban form identifies the 1740s and 1750s as a turning point, when the landlord James Hamilton initiated a plan for a more ordered town. Earlier routes did not disappear: Church Street, Clanbrassil Street and the route towards Seatown continued to organise movement between the river crossing, the harbour and the roads south.↗1
Why it matters here
Read the full chapter Look along the connected shopping streets: the modern centre still works through a much older pattern of routes, property and trade.
