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Carlow- Do you really exist???

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  • #32
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,944 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    I survived Carlow


  • #33
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Carlow? its that place betwen Dublin and Kilkenny that isn't Castledermot.

    It must exist because they built a bypass around it.

    I like it by the way, it sells Beer and Kebabs, a major plus for any town/county/kibutz


  • #34
    6th
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    I heard its the gay capital of Ireland. Kinda like our own San Francisco?


  • #35
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    helpwanted1 wrote: »
    Them figures mean nothing to me without knowing all the other counties in Ireland population.

    I.E. Is it the fourth smallest, third biggest, etc.
    http://homepage.tinet.ie/~cronews/geog/census/copop.html

    roughly?


  • #36
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    6th wrote: »
    I heard its the gay capital of Ireland. Kinda like our own San Francisco?

    Come down some night and say that in the Dinn Ri! Tenner says you dont make it out alive! :D


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  • #37
    helpwanted1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭helpwanted1


    6th wrote: »
    I heard its the gay capital of Ireland. Kinda like our own San Francisco?

    Carlow needs to market itself as something. At least if it was the gay capital of Ireland it would be known. Right now its now existent!!


  • #38
    Villain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,732 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    6th wrote: »
    I heard its the gay capital of Ireland. Kinda like our own San Francisco?
    Eh NO


  • #39
    lucylu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭lucylu


    6th wrote: »
    I heard its the gay capital of Ireland. Kinda like our own San Francisco?

    Isn't FCabra in North Dublin the Gay Capital of Ireland?


    OP how did you manage to get to the surrounding counties without hitting Carlow? :confused:


  • #40
    toe_knee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 841 ✭✭✭toe_knee


    Don't forget they won the Christy Ring Cup for the past 2 years. I am now struggling to find anymore facts.


  • #41
    helpwanted1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭helpwanted1


    toe_knee wrote: »
    Don't forget they won the Christy Ring Cup for the past 2 years. I am now struggling to find anymore facts.

    Kathyrn Thomas & the Christy Ring Cup...maybe now I know why I never met someone from Carlow, they must have pretended they were from Kilkenny or Dublin.

    Pathetic!


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  • #42
    ronano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭ronano


    toe_knee wrote: »
    Carlow is a great town. Great night life during college times. As for tourist attractions, they have such things as the Brownshill Dolmen (the biggest in Europe), Kathryn Thomas is from Carlow and is always plugging it. As far as I know Caroline Morahan is from there as well.

    My mother carved her initials into it as a child look for 'bon' :D


  • #43
    leincar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 683 ✭✭✭leincar


    toe_knee wrote: »
    Famous people from Carlow include engineer William Dargan, regarded as the father of Irish Railways, songwriter Ritchie Kavanagh and Michael Flatley's mother. Not realy sure if that last one counts but I will put it in anyway. Or the one before that either. Come to think of it forget I mentioned any of them

    Ah no you can have Ritchie Kavanagh. No really.

    Carlow the second smallest county with the third smallest population and a beautiful hidden gem. Sha-Roe in Clonegal probably the best restaurant in the South East. Mt Leinster, St Mullins. I'm in Co.Carlow 4 years after many years wandering and wouldn't live anywhere else. (Except South West France)


  • #44
    SpitfireIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,548 ✭✭✭SpitfireIV


    We have the earliest example of a round tower castle in the British Isles in our very own Carlow Castle (or whats left of it)! Take that!! ;)

    John Tyndal was from Carlow, as well as Dargan, as already mentioned.

    I always assumed Carlow was fairly well known, it was supposed to have been one of the quickest growing counties during the recent boom no? Now as for places like Roscommon, Leitrim and Longford, I've often wondered as to there existance, what is it they do? Rarely, when I do here the names I have to think 'wow, are they actually counties of Ireland??' :p

    Besides, I'm from Carlow, thats all you need to know and all thats important!


  • #45
    toe_knee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 841 ✭✭✭toe_knee


    helpwanted1 wrote: »
    Kathyrn Thomas & the Christy Ring Cup...maybe now I know why I never met someone from Carlow, they must have pretended they were from Kilkenny or Dublin.

    Pathetic!
    Or maybe you are anti social...


  • #46
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,393 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    I've just been told my job is moving to Carlow around Christmas :(
    I don't drive and I live in Kilkenny, no fair.

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



  • #47
    helpwanted1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭helpwanted1


    toe_knee wrote: »
    Or maybe you are anti social...

    The other 31 counties have no problem with my social skills:D


  • #48
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    jerseyeire wrote: »
    I've just been told my job is moving to Carlow around Christmas :(
    I don't drive and I live in Kilkenny, no fair.
    30 mins on the train...you'ld be longer going to work living in Dublin and working there.


  • #49
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,393 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    30 mins on the train...you'ld be longer going to work living in Dublin and working there.

    and about €2,000 for a yearly ticket, that's the part that annoys me.

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



  • #50
    Stevecw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,133 ✭✭✭Stevecw


    We also have best jersey in the country!

    http://www.imagebam.com/image/302fa152445258


  • #51
    helpwanted1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭helpwanted1


    Stevecw wrote: »
    We also have best jersey in the country!

    http://www.imagebam.com/image/302fa152445258

    That jersey will be handy when ye get a team to wear it:P


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  • #52
    spoonbadger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭spoonbadger


    Agricola wrote: »
    Come down some night and say that in the Dinn Ri! Tenner says you dont make it out alone, sailor! :D

    Fix'd


  • #53
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    toe_knee wrote: »
    Don't forget they won the Christy Ring Cup for the past 2 years. I am now struggling to find anymore facts.

    WTF is the Crusty Ring cup? is that something to be proud of? :eek:


  • #54
    toe_knee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 841 ✭✭✭toe_knee


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    WTF is the Crusty Ring cup? is that something to be proud of? :eek:
    Many counties aspire to this. Not sure why but who am I to argue with them


  • #55
    ART6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭ART6


    Until they built the bypass Carlow was simply a traffic calming measure between Waterford and Dublin.


  • #56
    Sizzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭Sizzler


    In the interests of fairness is there going to be a thread now for -

    Leitrim
    Longford
    Fermanagh ?


  • #57
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    I've always referred to Carlow as the forgotten county. It's all tucked away out of sight.

    As far as i know Carlow was historically a defensive weapon.

    If anyone tried to invade Ireland we were supposed to **** Carlow at them and run.


  • #58
    helpwanted1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭helpwanted1


    Sizzler wrote: »
    In the interests of fairness is there going to be a thread now for -

    Leitrim
    Longford
    Fermanagh ?

    These counties are better known. You may have formed an opinion that is positive or negative but you knew enough to form an opinion.

    With Carlow, I couldn't even do that. That for me makes it the 'forgotten county'...


  • #59
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,196 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    jerseyeire wrote: »
    I've just been told my job is moving to Carlow around Christmas :(
    I don't drive and I live in Kilkenny, no fair.

    You understood that to mean that you were keeping your job? Bless.

    G'wan Carla bize!


  • #60
    ART6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭ART6


    Sizzler wrote: »
    In the interests of fairness is there going to be a thread now for -

    Leitrim
    Longford
    Fermanagh ?

    Where??


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  • #61
    laugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    folee me up ta carla


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