Leighlinbridge Totally Explained

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Leighlinbridge is a village on the River Barrow in County Carlow, Ireland. The N9 National primary route once passed through the village which was by-passed in the 1980s. It now lies on the R705 regional road.
It features narrow winding streets, grey limestone malthouses and castle ruins overlooking a 14th century bridge across the River Barrow, reputedly one of the oldest functioning bridges in Europe. Leighlinbridge has won many environmental awards, including county winner in the National Tidy Towns Competition, first in the Barrow Awards, overall national winner in Ireland's Green Town 2000 and represented Ireland in the European "Entente Florale" competition in 2001.

Places of interest

Leighlinbridge Castle, also called Black Castle, was one of Ireland’s earliest Norman castles. A 50ft tall broken castle tower and bawn wall are all that can be seen today.
Below the castle lies the ruin of the first Carmelite priory in Ireland which was built by the Norman, Carew in 1270. The meteorites, totalling 220 grams in weight, were at the time the first recovered in Ireland since 1865 and are the first fallen rocks found anywhere in the British Isles since 1991.

Education

The local school is called Leighlinbridge National School

or in Irish, Scoil Naomh Laisrian.

People

Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran, third Archbishop of Sydney, was born in Leighlinbridge in 1830.

John Tyndall, prominent 19th century physicist, was born in Main Street, Leighlinbridge in 1820.

Myles Keogh, who became an American Civil War military officer and later a U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment memberduring the Indian Wars, was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. He was born in Orchard, Leighlinbridge in 1840.

The family of Brian Mulroney, former Prime Minister of Canada, was originally from Leighlinbridge, and he visited the village during his premiership.Further Information

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