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
