Hello Brenda,

Thank you for your email.  Omeath is a small village of approximately 1000 people.  The Irish for Omeath is Oméith.  Omeath is in County Louth (Lú) the smallest County in Ireland.  We are situated on the shores of Carlingford Lough about two miles from the border with Northern Ireland.

To our back is the Cooley Mountains we are enclosed by the lough and the mountains.  Originally when Omeath was settled there was only one townland called Tullaghomeath and to this day that is how it appears on the ordinance survey map.  As Omeath grew so did the number of townlands and we now have ten altogether with Tullagh the smallest.  The first ever Gaelic Football match was played in a field on Tullagh.  Tullagh also was home to the British landlord and the ruins of his dwelling can still be seen, his name was McKevitt and there is a bridge over the river at the top of Tullagh called "Lord Cairn" bridge, built about 120 years ago, Lord Cairn was the owner of the lands. I myself am not a native of Omeath, however I did make my home here 24 years ago and would never leave here. We are a small closely knit community with some of the kindest people on earth living here.  If I can help you any further with your request please do not hesitate to contact me and I will send you all I know of the history of Omeath.  I will be as accurate as possible and try and enlist some help.  It is our intention to put the history of Omeath on the net, finding the time to write it is the
problem.

Kind regards

Lorna McGuigan