Carlow

Carlow is the county city of County Carlow, in the south-east of Ireland, 84 km from Dublin. At the 2016 census, it had a combined urban and rural population of 24,272. The River Barrow flows thru the city, and paperwork the historic boundary between counties Laois and Carlow. However, the Local Government Ireland Act 1898 included the city absolutely in County Carlow. The agreement of Carlow is lots of years antique and pre-dates written Irish records. The city has played a prime position in Irish history, serving because the capital of the country within the 14th century.

The most top notch and dramatic prehistoric site is the Browneshill Dolmen – a megalithic portal tomb simply out of doors Carlow city. Now a part of the diocese of Kildare and Leighlin, numerous Early Christian settlements are nevertheless in proof nowadays across the county. St Mullin's monastery is believed to had been hooked up across the 7th century, the ruins of which might be nonetheless in proof these days.

Old Leighlin was the site of certainly one of the biggest monastic settlements in Ireland and the region for a church synod in 630 AD which determined the date of Easter. St Comhgall constructed a monastery in the Carlow vicinity inside the 6^th century, an old church constructing and burial ground continue to exist nowadays at Castle Hill referred to as Mary's Abbey. Carlow was an Irish stronghold for agriculture inside the early 1800s which earned the county the nickname of the scallion eaters. Famine later wiped out half of the population.