County Louth is small enough to drive end to end in under an hour and still holds two of the biggest towns in the country. Drogheda sits on the Boyne at the southern end, Dundalk on the bay at the northern end, the M1 runs between them and on to the border, and Ardee holds the middle where the N2 and N52 cross. Around those three are the villages that give the county its working shape: Dunleer and Castlebellingham on the old main road, Termonfeckin, Clogherhead and Baltray on the coast, Blackrock on the bay itself, Collon and Louth village inland, and the Cooley Peninsula, with Carlingford, Omeath and Greenore facing the Mournes across the lough.
Website design in County Louth, for a business that works more than one of those places, is about saying so on the page in a way Google can use. We are Dublin based and we work with Louth businesses from there: a video call to start, WhatsApp after, and a site built from the photos and details you send. We have no office in Drogheda or Dundalk.
Two towns, and the trades that work between them
Most Louth trades are based in one of the two towns or in Ardee and work the whole county, because the whole county is within reach. A roofer in Dundalk will do Blackrock, Carlingford and Dunleer in the same week. A paving crew from Drogheda works Termonfeckin, Clogherhead and Collon without thinking of any of it as travelling. That is fine for the van and awkward for Google, which shows a search from Clogherhead a page that talks about Clogherhead. A county-wide trade should name its towns and villages on the site, a sentence or two each, rather than one line about serving all of Louth. The Google Business Profile should be a service area business with the real places listed; our guide explains how the map results choose who to show.
A91, A92 and the border
Louth has two routing keys: A91 for Dundalk and the north, including the Cooley Peninsula, and A92 for Drogheda, Ardee and the middle, which also runs over into the Meath coast at Bettystown. A business should put the right one on the site and the Google listing and write the address the same way in both. The border is a second thing to be plain about. Customers come down from Newry and south Armagh when sterling is strong, and a Louth business that welcomes them should say so and price in euro. A .ie domain and an Irish address tell the search engines and the AI tools which side of the line you are on.
Carlingford, the coast and the visitor trade
The Cooley Peninsula is the county’s tourist end. Carlingford’s medieval streets, the lough and the mountain behind bring hen parties, walkers, sailors and families through most of the year, and Omeath and Greenore take the overflow. B&Bs, holiday lets, guides, restaurants and pubs there are booked by people who have never been to Louth, from a phone, weeks ahead, and by people standing on the street at six in the evening looking for dinner. The coast south of Dundalk works the same way on a smaller scale: Clogherhead’s harbour and beach, Termonfeckin, the golf links at Baltray.
Farms and the rest of the county
Away from the towns and the coast, Louth is tillage, dairy and beef, with sheep on the Cooley hills. Agricultural contractors, vets, septic tank crews and firewood suppliers work from farmhouses across the middle of the county, usually with nothing online but a Facebook page. Their new customers moved out of Drogheda or Dublin to a house on an acre and have never needed any of them before. Those people search by the nearest village; what local SEO is explains how a page that names the village gets found.
Price
Essentials is €499 to set up and €50 a month. Complete is €1,499 and €100 a month and includes the monthly local pages a county-wide trade needs, with bookings, payments, chat and review requests. The pricing page has the detail, and the trades we build for are under websites for.