Carlow

Carlow is the county town of , some 85 km south of Dublin. It's become a commuter town for the city and in 2022 had a population of about 27,000; it's fairly compact and has preserved its old centre.
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  • Type: Town with 27,400 residents
  • Description: town in County Carlow, Leinster, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Callow”, “Caterlogh”, “Catherlogh”, and “Catterlogh”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Carlow Castle and Carlow railway station.

Ruins
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is located near the in , . It was built between 1207 and 1213, and is a National Monument of Ireland.

Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of Carlow in . It is a station on the Dublin to Waterford intercity route. The station has two platforms.

Church
Photo: Joe Byrne, Public domain.
The Cathedral of the Assumption is both the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin and the parish church for the cathedral parish.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Killeshin and Tinryland.

Village
is a village in , on the R430 regional road. is a small rural community situated five kilometres west of Carlow town and overlooks the picturesque Valley. is situated 4½ km west of Carlow.

Village
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is a village in , , less than 5 km south of Carlow town. It is within the townland of Tinriland, in the parish of Tullowmagimma. is situated 5 km southeast of Carlow.

Carlow

Latitude
52.8408° or 52° 50′ 27″ north
Longitude
-6.9261° or 6° 55′ 34″ west
Population
27,400
Elevation
55 metres (180 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IE CAW
Open location code
9C4MR3RF+8H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52253632
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2965768
Wiki­data ID
Q211703
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Carlow” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Carlow”
  • Basque: “Carlow”
  • Breton: “Ceatharlach”
  • Bulgarian: “Карлоу”
  • Catalan: “Carlow”
  • Cebuano: “Carlow (kapital sa kondado)”
  • Cebuano: “Carlow”
  • Chinese: “卡尔洛”
  • Chinese: “卡洛”
  • Chinese: “卡爾洛”
  • Czech: “Carlow”
  • Danish: “Carlow”
  • Dutch: “Carlow”
  • Estonian: “Carlow”
  • Estonian: “Ceatharlach”
  • French: “Carlow”
  • Galician: “Carlow”
  • Georgian: “კარლოუ”
  • German: “Carlow”
  • Hebrew: “קארלאו”
  • Hungarian: “Carlow”
  • Indonesian: “Carlow”
  • Indonesian: “Ceatharlach”
  • Irish: “Ceatharlach”
  • Italian: “Carlow”
  • Japanese: “カーロー”
  • Japanese: “カーロウ”
  • Kazakh: “Карлоу (қала)”
  • Kazakh: “Карлоу”
  • Korean: “칼로”
  • Latin: “Caterlogum”
  • Latvian: “Kārlova”
  • Lithuanian: “Karlou”
  • Northern Frisian: “Carlow”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carlow”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Carlow”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ceatharlach”
  • Norwegian: “Carlow”
  • Persian: “کارلو”
  • Piemontese: “Carlow”
  • Polish: “Carlow”
  • Portuguese: “Carlow”
  • Romanian: “Carlow”
  • Russian: “Карлоу”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ceatharlach”
  • Serbian: “Karlou”
  • Serbian: “Карлоу”
  • Silesian: “Carlow”
  • Slovak: “Carlow”
  • Slovenian: “Carlow”
  • Spanish: “Carlow”
  • Swahili: “Carlow”
  • Swedish: “Carlow”
  • Swedish: “Ceatharlach”
  • Ukrainian: “Карлоу”
  • Urdu: “کارلو”
  • Welsh: “Carlow”
  • “Carlow”

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