Carlow is a town in Ireland. There are a few interesting things to see there on any tours of Ireland. Carlow was an important stronghold of the Anglo-Normans. The remains of the castle that was built then are worth seeing. There is only the west wall and its two...
The county of Carlow was made “shire-ground” by King John. The town is in the fertile, limestone valley of the River Barrow. This river was famous separating the English from the Irish clans. Here, where a tributary, joins the Barrow River, a four angled lake is formed. It’s worth...
The first positive evidence of human settlement in Ireland is to be found in a variety of burial grounds. Some of this date back to 6000 BC! These are in the form of “court cairns”, “passage graves”, “gallery graves”, and “portal dolmens”. In a pasture near Carlow...
The granite ridge that forms the lovely Wicklow and Blackstairs Mountains across the south-east corner of Ireland has given this region a distinctive character and history. For centuries it formed a barrier against invaders from the west. As a result, the inhabitants who settled on...
The county capital, Carlow was once an outpost that had to provide its own defence as it was isolated from the Pale around Dublin, which the Anglo-Normans ruled and defended. Carlow developed around a massive Norman keep, built in 1207-13 to guard a strategic crossing...
A real hiddem gem for your tours of Ireland !!! The county town has a lovely situation on the bank of the River Barrow and is a bustling market and manufacturing centre. Because of its strategic location it served as an important Norman and English stronghold during...
For centuries , the town of Carlow , 35 miles North-East of Wexford , was an Anglo-Norman stronghold at the edge of an otherwise fiercely Gaelic county. As such, it has a bloody history , with its most terrible battle during the 1798 Rebellion , when...
On Ireland tours you might come across this county. County Carlow is Irelands second smallest county. It is located inland in the southeast within the province of Leinster. The county covers an area of 346 square miles and has a popu;ation of over 45,000. Surrounded by mountains and...