Ardattin

Road through Ardattin village

Ardattin (Irish: Ard Aitinn, meaning 'high gorse')^[1] is a village and townland in County Carlow, Ireland,^[2][3] 6 km south of Tullow. It lies in the civil parish of Ardoyne in the historical barony of Forth.^[1][2] As of the 2011 census, the townland had a population of 34 people.^[4]

The local Roman Catholic church, the Church of the Immaculate Conception, was built in 1954 and is in Tullow Parish of the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin.^[5][6] There is a pub in the area.^[7]

People

• Pierce Butler, slaveholder and Founding Father of the United States^[3]
• Saoirse Ronan, actress^[8]

References

1. "Ard Aitinn / Ardattin". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
2. "Ardattin Townland, Co. Carlow". townlands.ie. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
3. "Ardattin". Carlow Tourism. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
4. "CD150 - Carlow Population by Private Households, Occupied and Vacancy Rate". data.gov.ie. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
5. "Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, Ardattin, Carlow". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
6. "The Church of the Immaculate Conception, Ardattin". tullowparish.com. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
7. "The Ardattin Inn". ie.publocation.com.
8. "The double life of Saoirse". irishtimes.com. Irish Times. 1 September 2007. Retrieved 29 January 2022.

52.754°N 6.707°W / 52.754; -6.707