The County Museum Dundalk is one of Ireland’s finest Local Authority Museums. It is located in a restored 18th Century distillery. Exhibits include the Mesolithic era onwards to the Middle Ages, Medieval times and the local industry all across three floors.

The Museum collection comprises over 70,000 objects ranging from the proverbial (Viking) needle to an anchor. Among the highlights are a magnificent three-wheeled, Heinkel motor car made in Dundalk in the late 1950s; the first Olympic Medal won by an Irishwoman (a Bronze won by Ardee’s Beatrice Hill-Lowe in archery in the 1908 Games in London); Oliver Cromwell’s shaving mirror; a leather jacket or jerkin worn by King William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne; items collected by Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, discoverer of the fate of Franklin and one of Ireland’s greatest explorers; and a multi-award winning exhibition marking the industrial and engineering history of county Louth.

Opening Hours:
Tues-Sat: 10am–5pm
Closed Sun, Mon & Bank Holidays.

Contact & Pricing:
lamn.ie/visit-us/county-museum-dundalk
[email protected]
Tel: 042 939 2999
Jocelyn Street, Dundalk, Co. Louth
Free admission