County Carlow
County Carlow is in Southeast Ireland, and historically part of Leinster. Its oldest monument is 6000 years old, and its towns have the heritage - and often the scars - of a turbulent history.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Carlow and Bagenalstown.
Carlow
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Carlow is the county town of County Carlow, 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.
Bagenalstown
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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.
Tullow
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Tullow is a small market town in County Carlow where N81 crosses the River Slaney. This was the main road between Dublin and Wexford until M11 was built along the coast.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Leighlinbridge and Borris.
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.
Borris
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Borris is a village in the south of County Carlow, with a population in 2016 of 652. The main reasons to visit are for events at Borris House and for hiking in the Blackstairs mountains.
County Carlow
- Type: county of Ireland with 56,900 residents
- Description: county in Ireland
- Also known as: “Callow”, “Carlow”, “Carlow Co.”, “Carlow County”, “Catherlogh”, “Catherlogh Co.”, “Catherlogh County”, “Co. Carlow”, “Co. Catherlogh”, and “County Catherlogh”
- Neighbors: County Kildare, County Kilkenny, County Laois, County Wexford, and County Wicklow
- Location: Leinster, Southeast Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“County Carlow” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Carlow”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كارلو”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه كارلو”
- Asturian: “Condáu de Carlow”
- Azerbaijani: “Karlou qraflığı”
- Balinese: “County Carlow”
- Basque: “Carlow konderria”
- Basque: “Carlowko konderri”
- Basque: “Carlowko konderria”
- Belarusian: “графства Карлау”
- Belarusian: “Карлау (графства)”
- Belarusian: “Карлау”
- Bengali: “কাউন্টি কারলো”
- Breton: “Carlow”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Carlow”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Ceatharlach”
- Bulgarian: “Карлоу”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Carlow”
- Cebuano: “County Carlow”
- Chinese: “Carlow Kūn”
- Chinese: “卡洛郡”
- Chinese: “卡娄郡”
- Czech: “Carlow”
- Czech: “Contae Cheatharlach”
- Czech: “County Carlow”
- Czech: “Hrabství Carlow”
- Danish: “County Carlow”
- Dutch: “County Carlow”
- Esperanto: “Contae Cheatharlach”
- Esperanto: “County Carlow”
- Esperanto: “Graflando Carlow”
- Estonian: “Carlow‘ krahvkond”
- Estonian: “Carlow’ krahvkond”
- Finnish: “Carlow’n kreivikunta”
- Finnish: “Carlown kreivikunta”
- French: “Carlow”
- French: “Comte de Carlow”
- French: “comté de Carlow”
- French: “Comté de Carlow”
- Galician: “Condado de Carlow”
- Georgian: “კარლოუს საგრაფო”
- German: “Carlow County”
- German: “Carlow”
- German: “County Carlow”
- German: “IE-CW”
- Greek: “Κάρλοου”
- Greek: “κομητεία Κάρλοου”
- Gujarati: “કાઉન્ટી કાર્લો”
- Hebrew: “מחוז קרלו”
- Hindi: “कार्लो काउंटी”
- Hungarian: “Carlow megye”
- Indonesian: “County Carlow”
- Irish: “Ceatharlach”
- Irish: “Contae Cheatharlach”
- Irish: “Contae Cheatharlaigh”
- Italian: “Carlow”
- Italian: “Contea di Carlow”
- Italian: “County Carlow”
- Japanese: “カーロー県”
- Japanese: “カーロウ県”
- Kannada: “ಕೌಂಟಿ ಕಾರ್ಲೊ”
- Kazakh: “Карлоу (графтық)”
- Kazakh: “Карлоу”
- Korean: “칼로주”
- Kurdish: “County Carlow”
- Latin: “Comitatus Caterlogensis”
- Latvian: “Kārlovas grāfiste”
- Lithuanian: “Karlou grafystė”
- Macedonian: “Карлоу”
- Malay: “County Carlow”
- Manx: “Coontae Chaarlagh”
- Manx: “Coontae Cheatharlach”
- Marathi: “काउंटी कार्लो”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Carlow Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Carlow”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Carlow”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “County Carlow”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Contae Cheatharlach”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “County Carlow”
- Norwegian: “Carlow”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Carhlawscīr”
- Ossetian: “Карлоу (графад)”
- Ossetian: “Карлоу”
- Persian: “شهرستان کارلو”
- Persian: “کارلو ( ایرلند)”
- Polish: “Carlow”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Carlow”
- Quechua: “Contae Cheatharlach”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Carlow”
- Romanian: “Judeţul Carlow”
- Romanian: “Județul Carlow”
- Russian: “Графство Карлоу”
- Russian: “Карлоу”
- Scots: “Coontie Carlow”
- Scots: “Coonty Carlow”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae Cheatharlach”
- Serbian: “Karlou”
- Serbian: “Карлоу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Carlow”
- Serbo-Croatian: “County Carlow”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Grofovija Carlow”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Karlou”
- Sinhala: “කාර්ලෝ ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Carlow”
- Slovak: “Contae Cheatharlach”
- Slovak: “County Carlow”
- Slovenian: “County Carlow”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Carlow”
- Spanish: “Condado de Carlow”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Carlow”
- Swedish: “Carlow”
- Swedish: “Contae Cheatharlach”
- Swedish: “County Carlow”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Karlo”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Карло”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Карлоу”
- Tamil: “கவுண்டி கர்லோவ்”
- Telugu: “కార్లోవ్ కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “โคโซวสกา คาเมนิซา”
- Turkish: “Carlow Co.”
- Turkish: “Carlow County”
- Turkish: “Carlow ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Carlow Kontluğu”
- Turkish: “Catherlogh Co.”
- Turkish: “Catherlogh County”
- Turkish: “Ceatharlach”
- Turkish: “Co Carlow”
- Turkish: “Co Cheatharlach”
- Turkish: “Co. Carlow”
- Turkish: “Co. Catherlogh”
- Turkish: “Co. Cheatharlach”
- Turkish: “Contae Cheatharlach”
- Turkish: “IE-CW”
- Ukrainian: “графство Карлоу”
- Ukrainian: “Карлоу (графство)”
- Ukrainian: “Карлоу”
- Urdu: “کاؤنٹی کارلو”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Carlow”
- Welsh: “Swydd Carlow”
- Western Panjabi: “کارلو”
- Wu Chinese: “卡洛郡”
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