County Carlow

"Carlow County" redirects here. For the UK Parliament constituency, see Carlow County (UK Parliament constituency).

County Carlow Contae Cheatharlach
Coat of arms
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
Dáil Éireann	Carlow-Kilkenny
EU Parliament	East constituency
County seat	Carlow
Government
- Type	County Council
Area
- Total	896 km2 (345.9 sq mi)
Area rank	31st
Population (2011)	54,532
- Rank	30th
Car plates	CW
Website	countycarlow.ie

Historical populations
Year	Pop.	±%
1653	4,969	—
1659	5,434	+9.4%
1821	78,952	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1831	81,988	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1841	86,228	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1851	68,078	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1861	57,137	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1871	51,650	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1881	46,568	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1891	40,936	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1901	37,748	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1911	36,252	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1926	34,476	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1936	34,452	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1946	34,081	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1951	34,162	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1956	33,888	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1961	33,342	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1966	33,593	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1971	34,237	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1979	38,668	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1981	39,820	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1986	40,988	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1991	40,942	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
1996	41,616	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
2002	46,014	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
2006	50,349	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
2011	54,532	Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
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County Carlow (Irish: Contae Cheatharlach) is a county in Ireland. It is part of the South-East Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the town of Carlow, which lies on the River Barrow. Carlow County Council is the local authority for the county. The population of the county is 54,532 according to the 2011 census.^[7]

Geography and political subdivisions

Baronies

There are seven historic baronies in the county: Carlow, Forth, Idrone East, Idrone West, Rathvilly, St Mullin's Lower and St Mullin's Upper.

Towns and villages

• Ballinkillen
• Ballon
• Ballymurphy
• Borris
• Carlow
• Clonmore
• Clonegal
• Fennagh
• Grangeford
• Hacketstown
• Kildavin
• Muine Bheag
• Myshall
• Nurney
• Old Leighlin
• Rathvilly
• Royal Oak
• St Mullin's
• Tinryland
• Tullow

Local government

County council

Main article: Carlow County Council

The principal local authority is Carlow County Council. The council provides a number of services including planning, roads maintenance, fire brigade, council housing, water supply, waste collection, recycling and landfill, higher education grants and funding for arts and culture.^[8]

Town councils

An additional tier of local government exists in the two largest towns in the county, Carlow and Muine Bheag.

Sport

F.C. Carlow in the A Championship

People

• Lisa Burke - weather forecaster on Sky News.
• Pierce Butler - soldier, planter, and statesman, recognized as one of United States' Founding Fathers. He represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress and the United States Senate.
• Myles Keogh - American Civil War military officer and later Captain of Company I, U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment - Fought in Indian Wars and was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. He was born in Orchard, Leighlinbridge in 1840.
• William Dargan - engineer, often seen as the father of Irish railways.
• Richie Kavanagh - comic songwriter, from Raheenwood, Fenagh, Co. Carlow.
• John Tyndall - the 19th century scientist who was the first to explain why the sky is blue.
• Saoirse Ronan - Oscar and Golden Globe nominated actress.
• Kathryn Thomas - RTÉ presenter.
• Samuel Haughton - Polymath, in 1866 published a formula for calculating the drop needed to cause instantaneous death at hangings.
• Sean O Brien- Leinster Rugby, from Tullow, Co.Carlow.

See also

• List of abbeys and priories in Ireland (County Carlow)
• Lord Lieutenant of Carlow
• High Sheriff of Carlow
• Monte Carlow - a place to discuss everything Carlow

References

1. ^ For 1653 and 1659 figures from Civil Survey Census of those years, Paper of Mr Hardinge to Royal Irish Academy March 14, 1865.
2. ^ Census for post 1821 figures.
3. ^ http://www.histpop.org
4. ^ http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census
5. ^ Lee, JJ (1981). "On the accuracy of the Pre-famine Irish censuses". In Goldstrom, J. M.; Clarkson, L. A.. Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press. 
6. ^ Mokyr, Joel; O Grada, Cormac (November). "New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850". The Economic History Review Volume 37 (Issue 4): 473–488. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract. 
7. ^ Census 2006 - Population of each province, county and city
8. ^ "All Services". Carlow County Council. http://www.carlowcoco.ie/en/allservices/. Retrieved 27 March 2011. 

External links

• Carlow Local Authorities
• Co Carlow Football Club
• Carlow GAA
• Myles Keogh Website
• County Carlow travel guide from Wikitravel

Coordinates: 52°40′N 6°50′W / 52.667°N 6.833°W / 52.667; -6.833