Louth is a village on the eastern side of the Darling River in New South Wales, Australia.

The town is made famous by the Louth Races which are held in August each year, attracting crowds of nearly five thousand.

[3] The town was established in 1859 when Thomas Andrew Mathews, an Irish immigrant from County Louth, 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.

[2] In 1888 the first mechanised shearing of sheep, in the world, took place at Sir Samuel McCaughey's Dunlop Station, a property located within the Louth district.