ARDRIE-LITTLE, a parish, in the barony of KILKEA-AND-MOONE, county of KILDARE,
and province of LEINSTER, ½ a mile (S. by E.) from Athy; containing
302 inhabitants. This place, which is situated on the
road from Athy to Carlow, and comprises only 295
statute acres, anciently belonged to the monastery of St.
Thomas, near Dublin, and was assigned to the precentorship
in the cathedral church of St. Patrick, Dublin, on
the institution of that dignity in 1219. It is a rectory,
in the diocese of Dublin, partly appropriate to the precentorship,
partly impropriate in Michael Goold Adams,
Esq., and partly forming a portion of the union of St.
Michael's Athy. The tithes amount to £24, of which
£16 is payable to the impropriator, and £8 to the incumbent
of St. Michael's; the portion appropriated to
the precentorship is 154a. 2r. 8p., let on lease at an
annual rent of £12.