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{{Short description|Town in County Louth, Ireland}}
{{Other uses}}
{{Use Hiberno-English|date=July 2020}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name                  = Ardee
| native_name           = {{lang|ga|Baile Átha Fhirdhia}}
| settlement_type       = Town
| image_skyline         = Ardee - Market Street.jpg
| image_caption         = View north along Market Street,<br />from the battlements of Ardee Castle, 1997
| image_shield          = Ardee Coat of Arms.png
| shield_size           = 150px
| shield_alt            = Ardee Coat of Arms
| motto = ''Na Bris Sith, Na Bris Cairdis''<br>Don't Break Peace, Don't Break Friendship
| pushpin_map           = Ireland
| pushpin_label_position= right
| pushpin_map_caption   = Location in Ireland
| coordinates           = {{coord|53.8554|-6.5379|dim:100000_region:IE|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type      = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name      = [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
| subdivision_type1     = [[Provinces of Ireland|Province]]
| subdivision_name1     = [[Leinster]]
| subdivision_type2     = [[Counties of Ireland|County]]
| subdivision_name2     = [[County Louth]]
| subdivision_type3     = [[Dáil Éireann]]
| subdivision_name3     = [[Louth (Dáil constituency)|Louth]]
| subdivision_type4     = [[EU Parliament]]
| subdivision_name4     = [[Midlands–North-West (European Parliament constituency)|Midlands–North-West]]
| population_as_of      = [[2022 census of Ireland|2022]]
| population_footnotes  = <ref name="cso2022">{{cite web | url = https://visual.cso.ie/?body=entity/ima/cop/2022&boundary=C04160V04929&guid=0139a442-0f36-46dc-b383-2a34d4d3f6f7 | publisher = [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)|CSO]] | work = Census 2022 | title = Census Interactive Map | date = 2022 | access-date = 2025-02-03 }}</ref>
| population            = 5478
| area_code_type        = [[Telephone numbers in the Republic of Ireland|Telephone area code]]
| area_code             = +353(0)41
| postal_code_type      = [[Eircode]] routing key
| postal_code           = A92
| timezone              = [[Western European Time|WET]]
| utc_offset            = ±0
| timezone_DST          = [[Irish Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset_DST        = +1
| blank_name_sec1       = Irish Grid Reference
| blank_info_sec1       = {{iem4ibx|N958906}}
}}

'''Ardee''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɑr|d|iː}}; {{Langx|ga|Baile Átha Fhirdhia}}, {{IPA|ga|ˈbˠalʲə aːhə ˈɪɾʲjiə|pron}}) is a town and [[townland]] in [[County Louth]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]. It is located at the intersection of the [[N2 road (Ireland)|N2]], [[N52 road (Ireland)|N52]], and [[N33 road (Ireland)|N33]] roads. The town shows evidence of development from the thirteenth century onward but as a result of the continued development of the town since then much of the fabric of the medieval town has been removed.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|date=Summer 2016|title=Where Ferdia fell: Ardee, Co Louth|url=https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/Services/Heritage/Publications/Ardee%20Heritage%20GUide.pdf|journal=Archaeology Ireland Heritage Guide|volume=73|page=6}}</ref> The town is in a [[Civil parishes in Ireland|civil parish]] of the same name.<ref name=logainm>{{cite web | url = https://www.logainm.ie/en/1682 | title = Baile Átha Fhirdhia/Ardee | work = [[Placenames Database of Ireland]] | access-date = 12 April 2024}}</ref>

Ardee is on the banks of the [[River Dee, County Louth|River Dee]] and is equidistant between the county's two biggest towns - approximately {{convert|20|km}} from [[Dundalk]] and [[Drogheda]], while it is also close to [[Slane]] and [[Carrickmacross]].

In the 20 years between the 1996 and 2016 census, the population of Ardee increased by approximately 30%, from 3,791 to 4,928 inhabitants.<ref name="sapmap2016">{{cite web | url = http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=5DEEAC31-E9BA-406A-849A-3A695B3AE93F | publisher = [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)|CSO]] | work = Census 2016 | title = Sapmap Area - Settlements - Ardee | date = 2016 | access-date = 12 January 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180112100923/http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=5DEEAC31-E9BA-406A-849A-3A695B3AE93F | archive-date = 12 January 2018 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.citypopulation.de/en/ireland/towns/louth/10019__ardee/ | website = City Population | title = Ardee (Ireland) Agglomeration| access-date = 3 February 2025 }}</ref> By 2022, it had a population of 5,478.<ref name="cso2022"/>