Living in Ardee, Co. Louth: Schools, Commute & House Prices 2026

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Ardee is a town in Co. Louth, about 59 minutes from Dublin city centre by car and on the rail line, 6 schools, 56.6% of households own their home. Living here costs a median €380,000 to buy or €1,325 a month to rent (a 4.2% gross yield).

Official CSO, Department of Education, Transport for Ireland, PPR & RTB data · 103 sales · updated July 2026

How Ardee compares: at €380,000 it is 3% above the County Louth median of €370k. Its 4.2% gross yield is below the county average of 4.7%.Recent activity in Ardee: latest recorded sale Jun 2026; 59 new homes approved in the last year; prices +26.7% year on year. This page updates as new official data lands.

Who lives in Ardee — 56.6% own their home, full Census breakdown

Who lives in Ardee

5,478 people live in Ardee on Census 2022 night. 57% of households own their home and 38% rent, so Ardee leans towards owner occupiers. The most common way to commute is by car (61%). It skews young: 21% are under 15 against 14% aged 65 and over. 29% of those who have finished education hold a third level qualification.

Source: CSO Census 2022 Small Area Population Statistics for the Ardee built-up area, CC-BY 4.0.

Getting around and commuting

Nearest train station: Dundalk (18.1 km away), on several Dublin intercity lines

Public transport serving Ardee — 7 operators

Getting around Ardee

Ardee is served by 7 public-transport operators running 14 scheduled routes. Operators are Bus Éireann, Collins Coaches, John McGinley Coach Travel, McConnon Travel, McGill Coach Travel, Royal Breffni Tours and TFI Local Link Louth Meath Fingal.

Scheduled routes

• 32 - Dublin Airport - Monaghan - Letterkenny
• 167 - Dundalk - Louth - Ardee
• 177 - Kells - Ardee
• 180 - Clones - Monaghan - Dublin
• 182 - Drogheda - Collon - Ardee - Monaghan
• 932 - Anagaire - Letterkenny - Dublin
• 980 - Carrickmacross - Dublin
• 932A - Anagaire - Letterkenny - Dublin
• 980A - Carrickmacross - Dublin
• 980B - Carrickmacross - Dublin
• DK02 - Moynalty - Navan - Dundalk
• DK04 - Bailieborough - Ardee - Dundalk
• DK08 - Ardee - Dundalk
• GD01 - UCD - Monaghan

Source: Transport for Ireland GTFS_All feed (NTA), CC-BY 4.0. Stops matched to the town within a 6 km radius; route list capped.

Schools in Ardee

There are 5 primary and 1 post-primary schools in and around Ardee, 3 of them in the DEIS programme.

Source: Department of Education, Data on Individual Schools. CC-BY 4.0.

Things to do in and around Ardee

• Heritage nearby: Mellifont Abbey (13 km) · Knowth Passage Tomb Cemetery (17 km) · Newgrange Passage Tomb (18 km) · Proleek Megalithic Tombs (24 km)
• Walking trails in County Louth: Tain Way · Annaloughan Loop · Barnavave Loop · Boyne Valley Camino

Where Ardee is

Map © OpenStreetMap contributors

What it costs: house prices and rent in Ardee

What this means: New builds in Ardee sell at about a 19% premium to second-hand homes (€395,000 vs €332,000).

Recent sales in Ardee

Actual sale prices from the Property Price Register, verifiable at propertypriceregister.ie.

Ardee median price, year by year

Maximum legal rent increase in Ardee

Since 1 March 2026 a rent review is capped at the lower of 2% a year (pro rata) or CPI inflation.

The full March 2026 rent review rules

Ardee compared with County Louth

Rent or buy in Ardee?

At a glance: €380,000 to buy versus €1,325 a month to rent, a 4.2% gross yield.

Local Property Tax in Ardee

The median home (€380,000) falls in LPT Band 3, a base charge of €333 a year before Louth County Council's local adjustment factor. Use the calculator for your exact valuation.

Renting in Ardee: the March 2026 rent rules

Every rent increase is now capped at the lesser of 2% a year (pro rata) or CPI inflation, nationwide since 1 March 2026. A review needs 90 days' notice on the RTB form, no more than one in any 12 months, and the notice must cite three comparable homes from the RTB Rent Register. Check any rent increase against the legal cap, or see average rents for every Leinster town.

Before you move: planning and flood

Recent development in Ardee

In the 12 months to July 2026, 57 planning grants were recorded in and around Ardee, including 59 new homes approved across those grants.

Source: Irish Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (ArcGIS, CC-BY 4.0). Granted applications keyed to the nearest town within 7 km. Homes column shows residential units in the application where recorded.

What this means: The 59 homes approved here in the last year are about 3% of Ardee's roughly 2,034 households, a supply pipeline that typically eases price pressure.

Flood maps

For the modelled fluvial, coastal and pluvial flood extents around Ardee, open the official OPW flood maps, the authoritative source for Ardee, Louth.

View the official OPW flood maps for Ardee →

Source: Office of Public Works, floodinfo.ie. No OPW flood-extent values are reproduced here.

County context

Planning permissions are reported at NUTS3 region level; counties in this region share a figure.

Sources: CSO F1001, CIA02, BHQ09. CC-BY 4.0.

Nearby Louth towns

Drogheda · Dundalk

All Louth house prices · All Leinster house prices

Sources: CSO Census 2022, Department of Education, Transport for Ireland, Property Price Register (PSRA), CSO RPPI, RTB via CSO. CC-BY. Figures verifiable at the official source.