Louth, New South Wales
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Louth is a small town on the Darling River in New South Wales, Australia in Bourke Shire. Approximately one hundred kilometres south west of Bourke and one hundred and forty kilometres north west of Cobar it is a small village of thirty. Made famous for the Louth Races which are in August each year, attracting crowds of neary five thousand.
A friendly community with a pub, school, tennis club, and turf club.
The town was established in 1859 when an Irish immigrant from County Louth named Thomas Andrew Mathews built a pub to serve the passing trade along the then busy Darling River. At one stage the town grew to have three hotels, a cordial factory, three bakeries, two butchers, a post office, three churches, a Chinese garden, a general store and a police station. The post office still remains and has been beautifully restored and is now a privately owned bed and breakfast.
When TJ Mathew's first wife, Mary Mathews died in 1886 he had a unique headstone built that is now an Australian National Monument. At dusk each night the cross reflects the setting sun across the town acting as a beacon of light that on the anniversary of her death lights up the doorstep of where her family home once stood.
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