Editing Athy (section)

==Name==
[[File:Prima Europae tabula (7537877008).jpg|thumbnail|left|Ptolemy's map]]
[[File:County Kildare - Athy Town Hall - 20180925211335.jpg|thumb|[[Athy Town Hall]]]]
Athy or {{lang|ga|Baile Átha Í}} is named after a 2nd-century [[Celts|Celtic]] chieftain, Ae, who is said to have been killed on the river crossing, thus giving the town its name "the town of Ae's ford".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://curiousireland.ie/whites-castle-athy-co-kildare-1417/|title=White's Castle, Athy. co.Kildare 1417|work=Curious Ireland|access-date=2017-11-04|language=en-US|archive-date=2 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702050719/http://curiousireland.ie/whites-castle-athy-co-kildare-1417/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Field 1980 26"/>

The ''Letters of the Ordnance Survey'' (1837) note that "The town is now called by the few old people who speak Irish there and in the Queen's County <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Laois]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>, {{lang|ga|"baile átha Aoi"}}, pronounced Blahéé", where ''éé'' stands for English 'ee' [i:] as clarified by a note written in pencil in Irish as ''Blá thí''.<ref>''Letters of the Ordnance Survey'', 1837, vol, II, 13 (26 November).</ref>