The original structure was largely replaced and widened in 1815 when it was named Wellington Bridge in celebration of the defeat of Napoleon's army by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo in June of that year.
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These Boroughs included Clogher in Tyrone and Old Leighlin in Carlow amongst others, they were disenfranchised following the Act of Union in 1801.
The Burton Baronetcy, of Pollacton in the County of Carlow, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 2 October 1758 for Sir Charles Burton, Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Sir Frederick Falkiner, 1st Baronet (1768–1824), Irish MP for Athy and Dublin County, British MP for Dublin County and Carlow Borough
John J. McGuinness (born 1955), Irish Fianna Fáil Party politician, TD for Carlow-Kilkenny 1997–
KCLR 96FM, a radio station that broadcasts to Carlow and Kilkenny in Ireland
Parker Green International owns among other assets, the Quays Shopping & Leisure Complex, Newry, Northern Ireland, Drumalane Mill Newry, Northern Ireland, and Fairgreen Shopping Centre, Carlow, Ireland.
It is one of the few clubs in County Carlow who can consistently challenge the dominance of the Carlow town club sides, Éire Óg and O'Hanrahans.
Rita Kelly (born 1953) is an Irish poet from Ballinasloe in eastern County Galway who now lives in an old lock house along the river Barrow between Athy and Carlow.
It was originally bred at the Teagasc Oak Park Research Centre in Carlow by Harry Kehoe who was one of the top potato breeders at Oak Park Research Centre, Ireland.
Among his public works were alterations to the cathedral at Cashel, the court-house and gaol at Galway, court-houses at Carlow, Clonmel, Roscommon, Wexford, and elsewhere, and St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, the Catholic Pro-cathedral at Dublin.
Carlow, and then Carlow College(1843-1853) at the time Carlow students could sit exams for degrees from the University of London and he was awarded a BA in 1850 he went on to study for a MA, he completed his studies in the Irish College in Rome(1853-1855) and was ordained a priest there by Archbishop Paul Cullen, and returned to Dublin to serve.
His public buildings include Carlow County Court House (1828),Tralee County Court House, County Kerry (1828) and the Ross Monument, Rostrevor, County Down (1826), commemorating Major-General Robert Ross (1766–1814).