Ballyloughan CastleFarmland east of Bagenalstown holds a 13th century gatehouse and hall, with a round tower on either side of the entrance.Megalithic tomb
Baunogenasraid Burial Mound
Bagenalstown, County Carlow
Diggers opened this bronze age burial mound near Bagenalstown in the 1970s and found a stone lined grave inside it.
- Where
- Bagenalstown, County Carlow
- Official site
- heritageireland.ie
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
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Ballyloughan CastleFarmland east of Bagenalstown holds a 13th century gatehouse and hall, with a round tower on either side of the entrance.
BagenalstownLaid out in the 1780s on the Barrow navigation. There is a lock, a lifting bridge, and a courthouse built to look like a Greek temple.
MyshallMyshall sits on the northern slopes of the Blackstairs, southeast of Carlow town and on the road up to Mount Leinster.
Borris HouseSeat of the MacMurrough Kavanaghs, a Tudor revival house above Borris village with a sixteen arch railway viaduct in the view.
South Leinster Way104km of waymarked route from Kildavin through Borris, over the Barrow into Kilkenny and on to Carrick-on-Suir in Tipperary.
Killoughternane ChurchThe stone baptismal font is still inside this small early church ruin, out in the fields near Killoughternane.More in Carlow
Brownshill Portal DolmenMegalithic tomb · Carlow townThe granite capstone here weighs over a hundred tonnes, and it has been sitting in this field 3km east of Carlow town since the neolithic.
Duckett's GroveRuin · Carlow townA Gothic revival mansion near Killerig burned out and was left standing. The turrets are up and two walled gardens sit beside it.
Altamont GardensGarden · TullowForty acres of garden and a lake south of Tullow, run by the OPW, with a beech walk that takes you down to the Slaney.
Huntington CastleCastle · ClonegalThe same family have lived in this 1625 tower house at Clonegal since it went up, and there is a yew walk through the garden.- St MullinsMonastic site · St MullinsThe high ground above the Barrow holds an early monastic site, with the stump of a round tower, church ruins and a Norman motte in the same ground.
Carlow CastleCastle · Carlow townTwo towers and the wall between them are all that is left of the 13th century Norman castle on the Barrow in Carlow town.
Black Castle, LeighlinbridgeCastle · LeighlinbridgeThe tower and a length of bawn wall stand on the Barrow bank, beside a stone road bridge that dates to 1320.- Carlow townTown · Carlow townThe county town sits where the Burrin runs into the Barrow, with an 1830s cathedral and the courthouse up on Dublin Street.