Bagenalstown
Muine Bheag, meaning "small thicket", is the official name of the town known in English as Bagenalstown. It's in County Carlow and in 2016 it had a population of about 2,800.Photo: liam murphy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Town with 2,840 residents
- Description: town in county Carlow, Leinster, Ireland
- Also known as: “Moneybeg”, “Muine Bheag”, “Muinebeag”, and “Muinebheag”
Photo: Wanfried-Dublin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bagenalstown and St Andrew’s Church.
Bagenalstown
Railway station
Photo: liam murphy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Muine Bheag halt serves the town of Bagenalstown, in County Carlow, Ireland. Nearby is Leighlinbridge in the same county. It is a station on the Dublin to Waterford intercity route.
Leighlinbridge Castle
Ruins
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Leighlinbridge Castle, also called Black Castle, is in the village of Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland, on the River Barrow. The early castle was built c.1181 for the Normans. Leighlinbridge Castle is situated 4 km north of Bagenalstown.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Leighlinbridge and Royal Oak.
Leighlinbridge
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Leighlinbridge is a town in County Carlow, with an ancient bridge over the River Barrow that's still in use. It stood astride the main Dublin-Waterford road until bypassed in the 1980s. In 2022 its population was less than 1,000.
Royal Oak
Village
Royal Oak is a small village in County Carlow, Ireland. It is on the west side of the River Barrow, across from Bagenalstown, and is off the former N9 road. It is not in or a part of Bagenalstown. Royal Oak is within the townland of Clorusk.
Paulstown
Village
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Paulstown is a small village in County Kilkenny in Ireland. Paulstown is located at the junction of the N9 and N10 National primary roads. It is 21 km south of Carlow and 19 km east of Kilkenny. Paulstown is situated 5 km southwest of Bagenalstown.
Bagenalstown
- Category: locality
- Location: County Carlow, Leinster, Southeast Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.7018° or 52° 42′ 7″ northLongitude
-6.9567° or 6° 57′ 24″ westPopulation
2,840Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE BAGOpen location code
9C4MP22V+P8OpenStreetMap ID
node 52269076OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Urdu—“Bagenalstown” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Muine Bheag”
- Basque: “Muine Bheag”
- Catalan: “Muine Bheag”
- Cebuano: “Bagenalstown”
- Chinese: “穆因比格”
- Dutch: “Muine Bheag”
- French: “Muine Bheag”
- Georgian: “მინე-ბეგი”
- German: “Muine Bheag”
- Irish: “Muine Bheag”
- Italian: “Muine Bheag”
- Japanese: “バゲナルストン”
- Lithuanian: “Mine Begas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Muine Bheag”
- Norwegian: “Muine Bheag”
- Polish: “Muine Bheag”
- Portuguese: “Muine Bheag”
- Russian: “Мине-Бег”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Muine Bheag”
- Sicilian: “Muine Bheag”
- Slovak: “Muine Bheag”
- Spanish: “Muine Bheag”
- Swedish: “Muine Bheag”
- Urdu: “بیگنلز ٹاؤن”
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