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A heritage day out in County Carlow

Everything this site lists for County Carlow in one place: 94 entries across holy wells, pattern days, monuments, castles and the coast. Each links to the record or page it comes from. More about County Carlow →

On this site for County Carlow
Holy wells 48Pattern days 0Round towers 3High crosses 13Ogham stones 6Mass rocks 2Sweathouses 1Megalithic tombs 6Crannógs 0Abbeys and friaries 6Castles 9Lighthouses 0Award beaches 0National parks 0
Holy wells · 48

From: Sites and Monuments Record (Republic); Wikidata for Northern Ireland. Holy wells page →

Pattern days · none on our lists

From: Sites and Monuments Record descriptions and Wikipedia. Pattern days page →

Round towers · 3
  • Kellistown East · “The Anthologia Hibernica contains a sketch of a Round Tower in ruins at Kellistown.” · SMR CW008-038002- ↗ · map ↗
  • Lorum · “No surface remains visible of any round tower.” · SMR CW019-011002- ↗
  • St. Mullin's · “In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.” · SMR CW026-011002- ↗ · map ↗

From: Sites and Monuments Record. Round towers page →

High crosses · 13
  • Garryhundon · “Within graveyard is plain, bossed solid-wheeled cross and base.” · SMR CW012-025002- ↗ · map ↗
  • Glebe (Rathvilly By.) · “Imperforate granite cross head (Wth across arms 1.58m) with one part of the ring broken and a cross in relief surrounded by a circle on both the E and W faces.” · SMR CW009-028003- ↗ · map ↗
  • Glebe (Rathvilly By.) · “Referred to as 'St. Mogue's Cross'” · SMR CW009-028004- ↗ · map ↗
  • Kildreenagh · “The head and part of the shaft of a high cross are built into a field fence.” · SMR CW016-032003- ↗ · map ↗
  • Lorum · “Portion of narrow, granite shaft (H 0.55m; Wth 0.30m; T 0.15m) in flat, disc-shaped base standing on small cairn (diam. 2.1m; H 1.1m).” · SMR CW019-010001- ↗ · map ↗
  • Nurney · “To N of present graveyard is well-preserved solid-wheeled cross with central boss and rope mouldings on each face (H 1.88m; Wth across arms 1.1m; Wth of bottom of shaft 0.32m).” · SMR CW012-048003- ↗ · map ↗
  • Oldleighlin · “Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Small granite undecorated wheeled cross with edge mouldings now standing in modern enclosure by St Molaise's Well.” · SMR CW011-016003- ↗ · map ↗
  • Orchard (Idrone East By.) · “Date of revision: 22 July 2011 Revised by: Claire Breen Portion of shaft, head and base of granite cross.” · SMR CW012-044001- ↗ · map ↗
  • Orchard (Idrone East By.) · present location of a moved object · “Portion of shaft, head and base of granite cross.” · SMR CW012-044002- ↗ · map ↗
  • St. Mullin's · “Upper portion and base of solid-wheeled cross.” · SMR CW026-011003- ↗ · map ↗
  • Templeowen · “Head of solid-wheeled cross with mouldings and projecting arms ( H 1.02m; Wth across arms 1.1m; T 0.26m), decorated with step and interlace patterns.” · SMR CW008-078---- ↗
  • Tullowbeg · present location of a moved object · “Head of high cross inserted into top of stone structure covering holy well which has been built into S face of NE wall of graveyard where Augustinian friary was located.” · SMR CW008-045011- ↗ · map ↗
  • Waterstown · “A granite, undecorated, solid-wheeled cross (H 1.92m; Wth across arms 0.87m) with edge mouldings and slightly projecting arms, set in rectangular base (L 0.71m; Wth 0.6m). (Harbison 1992, 184 (entry 232)) Reference: …” · SMR CW004-012003- ↗ · map ↗

From: Sites and Monuments Record. High crosses page →

Ogham stones · 6
  • Glebe (Rathvilly By.) · “A possible second ogham stone (see also CW009-028021-) at Clonmore according to Harbison (1991, 181, No. 11) but now lost.” · SMR CW009-028010- ↗
  • Glebe (Rathvilly By.) · “This is a granite stone (H 0.78M; Wth 0.3m; T 0.22m) with a very weathered ogham inscription on the lower part of the SE corner and possible faint traces of a cross on the W face.” · SMR CW009-028021- ↗ · map ↗
  • Hacketstown Lower · “An ogham stone fragment was discovered in 1875 in the gateway pier in 'Glebe of Hacketstown'” · SMR CW004-027---- ↗
  • Patrickswell · “This is a pink granite stone (H 1.1m; 0.4m x 0.65m) with a badly weathered inscription on the SW angle.” · SMR CW004-011---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Rathglass · “The stone to the E (ogham inscribed) has angular sides and a triangular cross-section (H 1.3m; 0.62m x 0.82m x 0.65m).” · SMR CW013-018001- ↗ · map ↗
  • Tuckamine · “The ogham inscription is on a 'rounded surface, not on an angle'” · SMR CW003-023---- ↗

From: Sites and Monuments Record. Ogham stones page →

Mass rocks · 2
  • Ballykeenan (St. Mullin's Lower By.) · “In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.” · SMR CW024-001---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Ballyteigelea (Idrone East By.) · “Beside Lady's well according to local information.” · SMR CW022-054002- ↗ · map ↗

From: Sites and Monuments Record. Mass rocks page →

Sweathouses · 1

From: Sites and Monuments Record. Sweathouses page →

Megalithic tombs · 6
  • Ballygraney · “Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Capstone (3.5m x 2.9m x 1m) rests on two portal stones at E end and on ground to W.” · SMR CW019-090---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Ballynasilloge · “The tomb stands on the SE side of a low hill overlooking the valley of the Glasheroge Stream and the Blackstairs Mountains form the skyline to the SE.” · SMR CW022-010001- ↗ · map ↗
  • Ballynoe or Newtown · “Capstone (3.5m x 3.2m x 0.8m) resting on single orthostat (other collapsed) and small flat stone.” · SMR CW013-036---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Haroldstown · “Two overlapping capstones (upper 4m x 3.2m x 0.85m; lower 3.2m x 2.4m x 0.7m) resting on large chamber comprising two well-preserved portal stones, large doorstone, and side stones.” · SMR CW009-008---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Kernanstown · “Very large capstone (4.7m x 6.1m x 2m) rests on two portal stones, door stone and prostrate slab.” · SMR CW007-010---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Kilgraney (Idrone East By.) · “Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Capstone (3.9m x 2.6m x 1.15m) rests on collapsed chamber, at N of subcircular mound (D 8m).” · SMR CW019-041---- ↗ · map ↗

From: Sites and Monuments Record. Megalithic tombs page →

Crannógs · none on our lists

From: Sites and Monuments Record. Crannógs page →

Abbeys and friaries · 6
  • Aghade · “Farrelly O'Donovan quotes Archdall Monasticon: '… about the year 1151 an Abbey was founded here, for nuns of the order of St. Augustine by Dermot the son of Murchad King of Leinster…' Aghade Rectory is mentioned in …” · SMR CW013-057001- ↗ · map ↗
  • Killerrig · “Also known as Friarstown and founded by Gilbert de Borand.” · SMR CW008-007---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Leighlinbridge · “Carmelite Priory of St Mary.” · SMR CW012-070005- ↗ · map ↗
  • Lisnevagh,Tobinstown · “Rectangular area enclosed by low bank with external stone-faced fosse, in which stand foundations of tower (dims. 6.6m x 4.5m) with rectangular structure aligned N-S (min. L 20m N-S; 5.5m E-W) attached to E wall of …” · SMR CW009-007---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Oldleighlin · “Augustinian Priory of St Stephen, found according to Gwynn and Hadcock (1988, 184) after 1163 at the instigation of St Laurence O'Toole.” · SMR CW011-016009- ↗
  • Tullowbeg · “According to the Urban Survey of County Carlow the friary was ‘founded in 1314 by Simon Lumbard and Hugh Talun and they gave a house and three acres of land in “the village of St John adjoining Tullow” to the friars.” · SMR CW008-045001- ↗ · map ↗

From: Sites and Monuments Record. Abbeys and friaries page →

Castles · 9

From: Wikipedia's castle categories. Castles page →

Lighthouses · none on our lists

From: Wikipedia's list of lighthouses in Ireland. Lighthouses page →

Award beaches · none on our lists

From: Blue Flag and Green Coast awards. Award beaches page →

National parks · none on our lists

From: Wikipedia, National parks of Ireland. National parks page →

Before you go looking

Source: National Monuments Service, Archaeological Survey of Ireland, Sites and Monuments Record, open data via data.gov.ie ↗ (CC BY 4.0); every record links to the Historic Environment Viewer ↗. Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record (Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division), OpenDataNI ↗.

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