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| | Ardee Civil Parish, Louth county, Ireland, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons |
 | | The county quarter sessions for the division of Ardee are held here in January and June ; and petty sessions are held every Wednesday, at which the portreeve and county magistrates preside. |
 | | The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Armagh, to which the rectory of Kildemock was united by act of council in 1700, and subsequently the vicarages of Shenlis, Smarmore, and Stickillen episcopally, forming the union of Ardee, in the patronage of the Lord-Primate: the rectory is impropriate in Viscount Ferrard. |
 | | The Earl of Meath enjoys the inferior title of Baron Brabazon, of Ardee, by which his ancestor, Sir Edward Brabazon, was elevated to the peerage of Ireland, in 1616. |
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