Leighlinbridge

A historic crossing of the Barrow, guarded by the Black Castle, a 14th-century Norman tower house built to defend the bridge. Old Leighlin nearby was a monastic city and is still the seat of a diocese.

Standing stones, barrows and a motte show early settlement around Leighlinbridge. The Black Castle, a 14th-century Norman tower house, was built to guard the bridge over the Barrow; a broken 50-foot tower and a stretch of bawn wall remain. The bridge was rebuilt in the 18th century, perhaps around older work, and several of the village's houses date from then. On 28 November 1999 a fireball lit up the sky over Carlow, and on 12 December a meteorite was found in the village; it is officially named the Leighlinbridge meteorite.

Drawn from the History section of the Wikipedia article on Leighlinbridge ↗, rewritten here and adding nothing it does not say; licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Nurney Cross · high cross · 4 km
• Lorum High Cross · high cross · 8 km
• Brownshill dolmen · dolmen · 13 km
• Freestone Hill · royal site · 14 km
• Leighlinbridge Castle · castle · under 1 km
• Ballymoon Castle · castle · 6 km
• Shankill Castle · castle · 6 km
• Clogrennane Castle · castle · 8 km
• Carlow Castle · castle · 11 km
• Clara Castle · castle · 14 km

Straight-line distances from the town centre, from each site's documented coordinates.

• Browneshill dolmen · A capstone of some 100 tonnes, the heaviest in Europe, raised by farmers without wheels or metal. Nobody is sure how.
• Dunmore Cave · Where the annals say Vikings massacred a thousand people in 928. Bones of women and children were found inside in 1973 — and a Viking silver hoard in 1999.
• Kilkenny — the burning of Petronilla · Bishop Ledrede accused the moneylender Alice Kyteler of feeding a demon and killing four husbands. Kyteler slipped away. Her maid Petronilla de Meath, tortured into confessing, was flogged and burned on 3 November 1324 — the first such burning in Ireland, and it fell on the servant.

All of these are pinned on the Hidden Ireland map.