The Top 10 Attractions of Carlow Town included some hidden gems. Carlow (Irish Ceatharlach) is the county town of County Carlow, in the southeast of Ireland, 84 km from Dublin. The M9 motorway means Carlow is about an hour’s drive from Dublin. From where comes the name of Carlow? So, the name is an anglicization […]
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Carlow was an important town in the Middle Ages. And his parish church stood then in the place currently occupied by St. Mary`s Church of Ireland. Also called the parish church of the Virgin Mary. Therefore St. Mary`s Church of Ireland is in a place that has been of great religious significance for centuries. In […]
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Assembly Rooms is another place in Carlow associated with the outstanding Irish playwright. George Bernard Shaw, Nobel Prize winner in literature in 1925. An Oscar winner in 1938 for the “best screenplay adapted” to the film Pygmalion, was born in 1856 in Dublin. Since 1876 he lived in London and traveled a lot around the […]
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For over one hundred and twenty years the Town Hall continues to be at the center of local government administration in Carlow. It was constructed according to the plans of the architect William Hague, Dublin. And in March 1886 Carlow Town Commissioners officially opened the newly construed Town Hall. During 2005–2006 Carlow Town Council refurbished […]
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Carlow Railway Station was built in 1845. It was designed by the outstanding railway engineer Sir John MacNeill. The station is located on St Joseph’s Road and Railway Road, on the line connecting Dublin and Waterford. Most of the station’s original buildings have survived to this day. These buildings are built of yellow brick and […]
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