Regiments Based in County Louth

 

1689-1910

 

 

 

 

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Two early 20th-century postcards: On the left is Millmount Barracks, Drogheda, showing the Louth Riles (6th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles) at drill. On the right, The Military Barracks, Barrack Street, Dundalk which is still in use.


 


 

The following list may be of assistance in tracing military ancestors who were based in County Louth. The "Year" indicates that the regiment was stationed in Co. Louth at some period during that year.

 

 

The list was compiled from various sources:

John M. Kitzmiller II, In Search of the "Forlorn Hope", Utah, 1988

Joseph Gavin & Harold O'Sullivan, Military Barracks Dundalk, A Brief History, Dundalk 1999

Dundalk Military Chaplain's Register 1854-1876 (Church of Ireland Registers on microfilm, RCB Library, Dublin)

The Irish Times Online Archive http://www.Ireland.com

Irish Newspaper Archives Ltd. http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/

The Times archive http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/archive/

 

 

 
Year Regt Number Regt Name Comment Place
1689 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers Foot Dundalk
1689 7th Princess Royal's Regt. of Dragoon Guards Cavalry Carlingford
1689 1st The Royal Dragoons Cavalry Carlingford
1689 2nd Royal Scots Greys Cavalry Boyne
1689 24th South Wales Borderers Foot Dundalk
1689 22nd Cheshire Regiment Foot Dundalk
1689 18th Royal Irish Regiment Foot Dundalk
1689 12th East Suffolk Regiment Foot Dundalk
1689 8th Kings Liverpool Regiment Foot Dundalk
1689 4th King's Own Royal, Lancaster Foot Dundalk
1689 7th Princess Royal's Regt. of Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1689 5th Princess Charlotte of Wales's Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1689 4th King's Own Royal, Lancaster Foot Slane Bridge
1689 3rd King's Own Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1690 18th Royal Irish Regiment Foot Boyne
1690 - Royal Horse Guards, The Blues Cavalry Drogheda
1690 8th Kings Liverpool Regiment Foot Dundalk
1690 3rd King's Own Hussars Cavalry Bedloe's Castle [Castletown, Dundalk?]
1690 4th King's Own Royal, Lancaster Foot Boyne
1690 3rd King's Own Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1690 5th Northumberland Fusiliers Foot Boyne
1690 6th Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers Foot Boyne
1690 8th King's Regiment - Liverpool Foot Boyne
1690 9th Royal Norfolk Regiment Foot Boyne
1690 11th North Devonshire Regiment Foot Boyne
1690 27th Inniskilling Regiment Foot Boyne
1690 13th Somerset Light Infantry, Prince Albert's Foot Boyne
1690 19th 1st Yorkshire North Riding (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own) Foot Boyne
1690 22nd Cheshire Regiment Foot Boyne
1690 7th Princess Royal's Regt. of Dragoon Guards Cavalry Slane Bridge
1690 5th Princess Charlotte of Wales's Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1690 20th Lancashire (East Devon) Fusiliers Foot Boyne
1690 4th King's Own Royal, Lancaster Foot Slane Bridge
1690 7th Princess Royal's Regt. of Dragoon Guards Cavalry Slane Bridge
1690 12th East Suffolk Regiment Foot Boyne
1690 4th King's Own Royal, Lancaster Foot Drogheda
1690 2nd Queen's Royal, West Surrey Foot Boyne
1690 - Royal Horse Guards, The Blues Cavalry Dundalk
1690 1st King's Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1690 5th Princess Charlotte of Wales's Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1690 - Royal Horse Guards, The Blues Cavalry Boyne River
1690 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers Foot Boyne
1690 4th King's Own Royal, Lancaster Foot Boyne River
1690 1st Life Guards Cavalry Boyne
1690 2nd Life Guards Cavalry Boyne
1690 - Royal Horse Guards, The Blues Cavalry Boyne
1690 1st King's Dragoon Guards Cavalry Boyne
1690 5th Royal Irish Lancers Cavalry Boyne
1690 5th Princess Charlotte of Wales's Dragoon Guards Cavalry Boyne
1690 6th Dragoon Guards, The Carabiniers Cavalry Boyne
1690 7th Princess Royal's Regt. of Dragoon Guards Cavalry Boyne
1690 6th Inniskilling Dragoons Cavalry Boyne
1690 1st The Royal Dragoons Cavalry Boyne
1690 3rd King's Own Hussars Cavalry Drogheda
1690 3rd King's Own Hussars Cavalry Boyne
1690 4th Queen's Own Hussars Cavalry Boyne
1690 7th Princess Royal's Regt. of Dragoon Guards Cavalry Drogheda
1690 2rd Queen's Bays, Dragoon Guards Cavalry Boyne
1690 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers Foot Drogheda
1699 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers Foot Drogheda
1717 24th South Wales Borderers Foot Drogheda
1717 1st The Royal Scots Foot Drogheda
1720 5th Royal Irish Lancers Cavalry Dundalk
1730 27th Inniskilling Regiment Foot Drogheda
1730 27th Inniskilling Regiment Foot Dundalk
1749 27th Inniskilling Regiment Foot Drogheda
1751 27th Inniskilling Regiment Foot Drogheda
1765 2nd Queen's Royal, West Surrey Foot Drogheda
1770 57th West Middlesex Regiment Foot Drogheda
1773 5th Royal Irish Lancers Cavalry Drogheda
1774 57th West Middlesex Regiment Foot Drogheda
1776 68th Durham Light Infantry Foot Drogheda
1777 68th Durham Light Infantry Foot Drogheda
1785 24th South Wales Borderers Foot Drogheda
1788 58th Rutlandshire Regiment Foot Drogheda
1791 63rd West Suffolk Regiment Foot Drogheda
1792 63rd West Suffolk Regiment Foot Drogheda
1792 56th West Essex Regiment Foot Drogheda
1794 12th East Suffolk Regiment Foot Drogheda
1800 71st Highland Light Infantry Foot Dundalk
1801 71st Highland Light Infantry Foot Dundalk
1802 3rd King's Own Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1803 3rd King's Own Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1806 7th Princess Royal's Regiment of Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1807 1st The Royal Dragoons Cavalry Dundalk
1808 81st Loyal Lincoln Volunteers Foot Dundalk
1809 74th Highlanders Foot Drogheda
1810 6th Inniskilling Dragoons Cavalry Dundalk
1811 1st The Royal Dragoons Cavalry Dundalk
1812 7th Princess Royal's Regiment of Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1813 7th Princess Royal's Regiment of Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1813 6th Royal 1st Warwickshire Fusiliers Foot Dundalk
1814 42nd Royal Highland Regt. Foot Dundalk
1814 61st South Gloucestershire Regiment Foot Dundalk
1814 6th Inniskilling Dragoons Cavalry Dundalk
1814 7th Princess Royal's Regiment of Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1815 91st Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders Foot Carlingford
1815 7th Queen's Own Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1815 91st Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders Foot Carlingford
1815 7th Princess Royal's Regiment of Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1817 14th King's Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1818 45th Nottinghamshire Regiment, The Sherwood Foresters Foot Dundalk
1818 14th King's Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1819 42nd The Black Watch Foot Dundalk
1820 8th Veteran Battalion Foot Drogheda
1820 3rd The Buffs, Royal East Kent Foot Ardee
1820 3rd The Buffs, Royal East Kent Foot Dundalk
1820 3rd The Buffs [3rd East Kent Regt.] Foot Drogheda
1820 1st The Royal Dragoons Cavalry Dundalk
1820 3rd The Buffs, Royal East Kent Foot Carlingford
1820 93rd Sutherland Highlanders Foot Drogheda
1821 7th Queen's Own Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1821 5th Princess Charlotte of Wales's Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1822 5th Princess Charlotte of Wales's Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1823 4th Queen's Own Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1823 7th Princess Royal's Regiment of Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1823 8th Veteran Battalion Foot Dundalk
1824 7th Queen's Own Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1824 63rd West Suffolk Regiment Foot Dundalk
1824 63rd West Suffolk Regiment Foot Drogheda
1824 5th Princess Charlotte of Wales's Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1825 5th Royal Irish Lancers Cavalry Dundalk
1825 1st The Royal Dragoons Cavalry Dundalk
1825 73rd Perthshire Regiment Foot Drogheda
1825 5th Princess Charlotte of Wales's Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1825 63rd West Suffolk Regiment Foot Dundalk
1826 1st The Royal Dragoons Cavalry Dundalk
1827 3rd King's Own Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1828 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1829 17th Lancers, Duke of Cambridge's Own Cavalry Dundalk
1830 6th Inniskilling Dragoons Cavalry Dundalk
1831 7th Queen's Own Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1831 5th Princess Charlotte of Wales's Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1832 3rd Prince of Wales Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1832 5th Princess Charlotte of Wales's Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1832 5th Royal Irish Lancers Cavalry Dundalk
1833 52nd Oxfordshire Light Infantry Foot Louth [?]
1833 4th Queen's Own Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1834 6th Inniskilling Dragoons Cavalry Dundalk
1835 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1835 10th Hussars, Prince of Wales's Own Cavalry Dundalk
1836 16th Queen's Lancers Cavalry Dundalk
1837 2nd Royal Scots Greys Cavalry Dundalk
1837 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1838 8th [or 3rd] Kings Own Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1838 1st The Royal Dragoons Cavalry Dundalk
1839 8th Royal Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1839 17th Lancers Cavalry Dundalk
1839 87th The Royal Irish Fusiliers Foot Drogheda
1840 17th Lancers, Duke of Cambridge's Own Cavalry Dundalk
1840 - Royal Horse Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1841 1st Royal Dragoons Cavalry Dundalk
1842 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales) Cavalry Dundalk
1842 7th Dragoon Guards (Black Horse) Cavalry Dundalk
1842 4th Queen's Own Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1843 5th Princess Charlotte of Wales's Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1844 5th Princess Charlotte of Wales's Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1844 11th Prince Albert's Own Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1844 5th Royal Irish Lancers Cavalry Dundalk
1845 11th Hussars, Prince Albert's Own Cavalry Dundalk
1846 1st King's Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1846 1st The Royal Dragoons Cavalry Dundalk
1846 2nd Royal Scots Greys Cavalry Dundalk
1846 68th Durham Light Infantry Foot Dundalk
1847 68th Durham Light Infantry Foot Drogheda
1847 6th Inniskilling Dragoons Cavalry Dundalk
1847 17th Lancers, Duke of Cambridge's Own Cavalry Dundalk
1848 5th Carabiniers, Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1848 6th Inniskilling Dragoons Cavalry Dundalk
1849 9th Queen's Royal Lancers Cavalry Dundalk
1849 13th Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1850 13th Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1851 16th Queen's Lancers Cavalry Dundalk
1851 6th Inniskilling Dragoons Cavalry Dundalk
1852 4th Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1853 1st Royal Dragoons Cavalry Dundalk
1854 4th Queen's Own Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1854 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1855 - Louth Militia Foot Drogheda
1855 2nd Royal Scots Greys Cavalry Dundalk
1855 2nd Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1856 2nd Royal Scots Greys Cavalry Dundalk
1857 7th Queen's Own Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1857 8th Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1857 3rd Light Dragoons Cavalry Dundalk
1857 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars Cavalry Dundalk
1858 2nd Dragoon Guards Cavalry Dundalk
1859 13th Hussars Cavalry Dundalk