Áth Pháidín

Áth Pháidín, anglicized as Aghpaudeen, derives from the Irish elements áth (ford) and Páidín, a personal name and diminutive of Pádraig (Patrick), making the name 'the ford of Páidín.' The townland lies in Donore Electoral Division, within Killybegs Civil Parish in the Barony of Clane, County Kildare. The Civil Survey of 1654 recorded multiple variant spellings—'a Foard commonly Achepaddin' and...