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Despite the fact that it is the smallest county in Ireland, Louth has a surprisingly broad range of surnames. This broad range reflects to some degree the history of the county.

In this series of articles on the surnames of the Irish counties, frequent reference has been made to Robert E. Matheson's Special Report on Surnames in Ireland which was based on the civil records of births for the year 1890. Such a narrow base could not provide an accurate reflection of surname frequency ...

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