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Extract from the Carlow Travel Guides:
For centuries, the town of
CARLOW
was an Anglo-Norman stronghold at the edge of an otherwise fiercely Gaelic county. As such, it has a bloody history, with its most terrible battle during the 1798 Rebellion, when over six hundred rebels were slaughtered. Today there's nothing to suggest its former frontier status, and this small, busy town is distinguished only by a fine Classical courthouse with a portico modelled on the Parthenon, an elegant Regency Gothic cathedral - one of the first Catholic churches to be built after Catholic Emancipation in 1829 - and the remains of the once proud Norman
castle
, which lie besid...
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