Carlow takes its name from Ceatharlach, ‘place of the weirs’, where the River Barrow has shaped both the county’s fortunes and its second name — Ireland’s smallest inland county, but far from its least significant.
Contae Cheatharlach · The Barrowsiders · Leinster
Carlow takes its name from Ceatharlach, ‘place of the weirs’, where the River Barrow has shaped both the county’s fortunes and its second name — Ireland’s smallest inland county, but far from its least significant.
This is the home of the Brownshill Dolmen, whose capstone — over a hundred tonnes of granite raised some five thousand years ago — is the heaviest in Europe, quiet proof that this small county has always thought big.
