County Carlow
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| County Carlow Contae Cheatharlach
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| 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 | www.countycarlow.ie | ||
| Historical populations | ||
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| 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]
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[edit] Geography and political subdivisions
[edit] 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.
[edit] Towns and villages
[edit] Local government
[edit] 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]
[edit] Town councils
An additional tier of local government exists in the two largest towns in the county, Carlow and Muine Bheag.
[edit] Sport
F.C. Carlow in the A Championship
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] References
- ^ For 1653 and 1659 figures from Civil Survey Census of those years, Paper of Mr Hardinge to Royal Irish Academy March 14, 1865.
- ^ Census for post 1821 figures.
- ^ http://www.histpop.org
- ^ http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mokyr, Joel; O Grada, Cormac (November). "New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850". The Economic History Review 37 (4): 473–488. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract.
- ^ Census 2006 - Population of each province, county and city
- ^ "All Services". Carlow County Council. http://www.carlowcoco.ie/en/allservices/. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: County Carlow |
- Carlow Local Authorities
- Co Carlow Football Club
- Carlow GAA
- Myles Keogh Website
- County Carlow travel guide from Wikitravel
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