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Leighlinbridge
Irish: Leithghlinn an Droichid | |
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town | |
 The Black Castle on the River Barrow in Leighlinbridge | |
  Leighlinbridge Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°44′11″N 6°58′21″W / 52.7364°N 6.9725°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Carlow |
| Elevation | 41 m (135 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 959 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | S694654 |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1831 | 2,035 | — |
| 1841 | 1,748 | −14.1% |
| 1851 | 1,292 | −26.1% |
| 1861 | 1,245 | −3.6% |
| 1871 | 1,066 | −14.4% |
| 1881 | 835 | −21.7% |
| 1891 | 744 | −10.9% |
| 1901 | 646 | −13.2% |
| 1911 | 544 | −15.8% |
| 1926 | 406 | −25.4% |
| 1936 | 425 | +4.7% |
| 1946 | 394 | −7.3% |
| 1951 | 326 | −17.3% |
| 1956 | 375 | +15.0% |
| 1961 | 457 | +21.9% |
| 1966 | 444 | −2.8% |
| 1971 | 379 | −14.6% |
| 1981 | 515 | +35.9% |
| 1986 | 540 | +4.9% |
| 1991 | 510 | −5.6% |
| 1996 | 508 | −0.4% |
| 2002 | 646 | +27.2% |
| 2006 | 674 | +4.3% |
| 2011 | 828 | +22.8% |
| 2016 | 914 | +10.4% |
| 2022 | 959 | +4.9% |
| [2][3][4][5][6][7][1][8] | ||
Leighlinbridge (/ˈlɔːxlɪn.brɪdʒ/; Irish: Leithghlinn an Droichid, meaning 'half-glen (or grey glen) of the bridge')[9] is a small town on the River Barrow in County Carlow, Ireland. It is 11 km south of Carlow town, on the R705 road. The N9 national primary route once passed through the village, but was by-passed in the 1980s.
Leighlinbridge covers the townlands of Leighlin (east bank of the river) and Ballyknockan (west bank). The village features narrow winding streets, grey limestone malthouses and ruined castle (tower house) overlooking a historical bridge across the River Barrow. Leighlinbridge has won the National Tidy Towns Competition, has come first in the Barrow Awards, been an overall national winner in Ireland's Green Town 2000, and represented Ireland in the European "Entente Florale" competition in 2001.[10]
History
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Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of standing stone, enclosure, barrow, motte and ring ditch sites in the townlands of Leighlinbridge, Ballyknockan and Coneykeare.[11]
Leighlinbridge Castle, also called Black Castle, is a 14th century Norman tower house which was built to defend the nearby bridge.[12] A 50 ft tall broken castle tower and bawn wall are all that can be seen today.[13] The bridge was replaced in the 18th century, and may have incorporated elements of the earlier medieval structure.[14][15]
Several houses in Leighlinbridge date to the 18th century,[16][17] while the local Catholic church was completed c. 1830.[18]
On the night of 28 November 1999, a loud detonation and bright fireball was observed over County Carlow for several seconds. In addition to several other specimens, a fusion crusted individual meteoritic rock was discovered in Leighlinbridge on 12 December 1999. It is now officially called the "Leighlinbridge" by the International Meteorite Nomenclature Committee.[19][20] The meteorites totalled 271.4 grams in weight.[19][21]
Amenities
[edit]The Arboretum Garden Centre is a located a kilometre east of the village at the Leighlinbridge Cross with the N9.[citation needed]
The local primary school is Leighlinbridge N.S.[22]
Sports
[edit]There are three Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) clubs in the Leighlinbridge area: Naomh Bríd, Leighlinbridge and Micheal Davitts. Naomh Bríd is a hurling club that competes in the Carlow Senior Hurling Championship and the Carlow Intermediate Hurling Championship. Leighlinbridge is a football club that competes in the Carlow Junior Football Championship. Micheal Davitts are a football club that competes at underage levels.[citation needed]
Vale Wanderers is a local association football (soccer) club which fields teams at both underage and senior levels.[citation needed]
People
[edit]- Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran (1830–1911), third Archbishop of Sydney, was born in Leighlinbridge[23]
- John Tyndall (1820–1893), physicist known for his study of diamagnetism, was born in Main Street, Leighlinbridge[24]
- Myles Keogh (1840–1876), 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. He was born in Orchard, Leighlinbridge.[citation needed]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Census Mapping - Towns: Leighlinbridge - Population Snapshot". visual.cso.ie. Central Statistics Office Ireland. April 2022. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
- ^ "Census - CSO - Central Statistics Office". www.cso.ie.
- ^ "histpop.org". Archived from the original on 7 May 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- ^ Lee, JJ (1981). "On the accuracy of the Pre-famine Irish censuses". In Goldstrom, J. M.; Clarkson, L. A. (eds.). Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Mokyr, Joel; O Grada, Cormac (November 1984). "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. hdl:10197/1406.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ "Census 2011 - Sapmap data".
- ^ "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Leighlinbridge". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office Ireland. April 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
- ^ "Leighlinbridge (Ireland) Census Town". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 23 August 2026.
- ^ Leighlinbridge Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved: 2013-02-16.
- ^ "Leighlinbridge". Carlow Tourism. Archived from the original on 17 November 2007. Retrieved 10 December 2007.
- ^ Brindley, Anna L, ed. (1993). Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow. Dublin: Stationery Office.
- ^ "NMS mapping data - CW012-070003-" – via heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com.
CW012-070003- : Castle - tower house : Leighlinbridge [..] National Monument No. 438. Known as 'Black Castle'. Constructed in 1320 to defend bridge (CW012-070002-) and possibly contemporary in original construction. Present remains appear to be chiefly of sixteenth-century date
- ^ "Leighlinbridge Castle". An Ireland Attraction.
- ^ "NMS mapping data - CW012-070002-" – via heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com.
CW012-070002- : Bridge : Ballyknockan (Idrone West By.),Leighlinbridge [..] Built in 1320 by Maurice Jakis and defended by tower house (CW012-070003-). According to Lewis (1837, Vol II, 251), the then bridge had nine arches and may have been, or incorporated parts of, the medieval one. Present bridge is modern. (Bradley 1989, 35)
- ^ "Leighlin Bridge, Ballyknockan (Idrone West By.), Leighlinbridge, Carlow". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 23 August 2026.
- ^ "Garrison House, Main Street, Leighlinbridge, Leighlinbridge, Carlow". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 23 August 2026.
- ^ "Glen Lodge, Fair Green, Leighlinbridge, Leighlinbridge, Carlow". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 23 August 2026.
- ^ "Saint Laserian's Catholic Church, Saint Laserian's Street, Ballyknockan (Idrone West By.), Leighlinbridge, Carlow". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 23 August 2026.
- ^ a b Meteoritical Bulletin Database: Leighlinbridge
- ^ "Leighlinbridge". Fernlea Meteorites UK. Retrieved 10 December 2007.
- ^ Damian Carrington (31 January 2000). "Woman finds space fireball debris". BBC News. Retrieved 10 December 2007.
- ^ "Leighlinbridge National School - Homepage".
- ^
O'Haran, Denis (1913). "Francis Patrick Cardinal Moran". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ McMillan, Norman (October 2009), "Tyndall, John", Dictionary of Irish Biography, Royal Irish Academy, doi:10.3318/dib.008696.v1
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