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About Ardee

Ardee, Baile Átha Fhirdhia in Irish, is a town in County Louth, 59 km north of Dublin, with 4,928 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the N2, N33 and N52. The map gives it 4,810 buildings and 90 named streets, with 79 places named on them in 49 kinds, and 83 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the third largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.

Population
4,928 at the 2016 census
Where
59 km north of Dublin
Position
53.8553° N, 6.5389° W, 61 m above sea level
Roads
N2, N33, N52, R165, R170, L1233, L1260 and L5229
Governed
Louth County Council, in the province of Leinster
Twinned with
Nettuno, Italy
On the model
4,810 buildings, 90 streets, 79 named places in 49 kinds
Ardee Castle (Ardee), County Louth
Ardee Castle (Ardee), County Louth·Audrius Janecka, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ardee Castle
Ardee Castle·dougf, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ardee in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 875 to 1974. That is not a history of Ardee, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

8751974Muiredach's High CrossArdee Community School
The ninth century
The twelfth century
  • 1148Louth AbbeyHistoric churches · 11 km from the centre
  • the twelfth centurySt. Mochta's HouseHistoric churches · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The seventeenth century
The twentieth century

County Louth since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

139,70362,739128,24018412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 83 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N2, N33, N52, R165, R170, L1233, L1260 and L5229 running through Ardee.

By bus or train

14 lines call at 11 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

5 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Ardee?
In County Louth, in the province of Leinster, 59 km north of Dublin and 59 km from Dublin, on the N2, N33 and N52.
How big is Ardee?
4,928 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 4,810 buildings and 90 named streets.
What is there to see in Ardee?
83 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ardee Castle, Hatch's Castle and Sir Frederick Foster Memorial.
How do you get to Ardee?
14 bus and train lines call at 11 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Collins Coaches and John McGinley Coach Travel.
Has County Louth grown or shrunk?
The census counted 128,240 people in the county in 1841 and 139,703 in 2022.
4,810
buildings on the model
90
named streets
79
named places
49
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q638781). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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