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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 450 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARDEE , a See also:

market-See also:town of Co. See also:Louth, See also:Ireland, in the See also:south See also:parliamentary See also:division, on the See also:river See also:Dee, 48 m. N. by W. from See also:Dublin on a See also:branch of the See also:Great See also:Northern railway. Pop. (1901) 1883. It has some See also:trade in See also:grain and See also:basket-making. The town is of high antiquity, and its name (Ather-dee) is taken to signify the See also:ford of the Dee. A See also:form See also:Ath-Firdia, however, is connected with the See also:ancient See also:story of the See also:warrior Cuchullain of See also:Ulster, who, while defending the ford against the men of See also:Con-naught, was forced to slay many with whom he was on friendly terms, and among them the warrior Firdia,. whom he regarded with See also:special See also:affection. A See also:castle of the lords of the See also:manor was built See also:early in the 14th See also:century, and remains, as does another adjacent fortified See also:building of the same See also:period. See also:Roger de Peppart, See also:lord of the manor early in the 13th century, founded the See also:present See also:Protestant See also:church and a See also:house of Crutched Friars. There was also a house of Carmelite Friars, but neither of these remains. Ardee received its first recorded See also:charter in 1377.

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share in the several Irish See also:wars, being sacked by See also:Edward See also:Bruce (1315) and by O'See also:Neill (1538); and it was taken by the Irish and recaptured by the See also:English in the wars of 1641, and was occupied later by the forces of See also:James II. and of See also:William III. It returned two members to the Irish See also:parliament. A large See also:rath, or encampment, with remains of fortifications, stands to the south of the town.

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