Ardee

Ardee ( Irish: Baile Átha Fhirdhia ) is a town in County Louth in the north east of the Republic of Ireland.

Originally Atherdee hot end derives the name from the Irish Áth Fhirdhia ( " ford of the Fer diad " ), who refers to a figure of Irish mythology.

Ardee is on the banks of the River Dee ( the northern boundary of the English controlled territory in the Middle Ages ), each about 20 km from Drogheda and Dundalk removed, roughly in the center of the county of Louth, and had the Census 2011, a population of 4,541 people. Ardee Castle, founded in 1207 by Roger de Peppard. Sir John Stanley (1414 ) and James Butler, the "White Earl of Ormond " ( 1452 ) two English lord deputies died here.

Since the mid- 1990s, Ardee has grown significantly in the wake of Ireland's economic development. This is mainly due to the good transport links to three national highways: Ardee is on both the N2 Dublin to Monaghan as well as on the N52 Dundalk On Mullingar to Nenagh N7; also connects the N33 Ardee Drogheda and with the M1/N1.

On the rail transport in Ireland Ardee is no longer connected, but the track bed in 1976 permanently closed, 8 km long branch line to the main railway route Dublin - Belfast was partially made ​​to a walkway.