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The origins of the foot soldier with his spear and sword is not known, neither is the lion on the crest, although the latter may be from the Mortimer family whose Roger held the Lordship of Louth in 1330. A Mortimer Castle stood in Park Street as late as the seventeen<sup>th</sup> century. | The origins of the foot soldier with his spear and sword is not known, neither is the lion on the crest, although the latter may be from the Mortimer family whose Roger held the Lordship of Louth in 1330. A Mortimer Castle stood in Park Street as late as the seventeen<sup>th</sup> century. | ||
The arms already appear on the old seal of the city of which the matrix is still available (at present in the collection of the National Museum of Ireland), see image below. The actual date of the matrix is not known, it has been attributed to the 12th century up to the 17th century, but it is probably dating from the middle of the 14th century. | |||
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|align="center"|[[File:dundalkz1.jpg|350 px|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>Seal matrix of Dundalk | |||
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|align="center"|[[File:dundalk.jj.jpg|350 px|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms as used on a [[Jaja|JaJa postcard]] +/- 1905 | |align="center"|[[File:dundalk.jj.jpg|350 px|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms as used on a [[Jaja|JaJa postcard]] +/- 1905 | ||
|align="center"|[[File:dundalk.haguk.jpg|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms in the [[Coffee Hag albums]] +/- 1925 | |align="center"|[[File:dundalk.haguk.jpg|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms in the [[Coffee Hag albums]] +/- 1925 | ||
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[[Literature]] : Image and information provided by Laurence Jones | [[Literature]] : Image and information provided by Laurence Jones; seal and info from Ó Floinn, 1992 | ||
[[File:ireland.jpg|50 px|link=Ireland]][[Category:Irish municipalities]] | [[File:ireland.jpg|50 px|link=Ireland]][[Category:Irish municipalities]] | ||
[[Category:Louth]] | [[Category:Louth]] | ||