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Carlow Town, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | CARLOW, an incorporated borough, market, and post-town, and a parish, in the barony and county of CARLOW, and province of LEINSTER, 18 1/4 miles N.E. from Kilkenny city, and 39 1/4 (S.W. by S.) from Dublin city; containing 9597 inhabitants, of which number, 9114 are in the borough. |
 | | He entered the college of Carlow, as professor of rhetoric, in 1809, and was soon it afterwards appointed professor of theology; in 1819 he was raised to the R C see of Kildare and Leighlin, and died of a lingering decline on the 10th of June, 1834. |
 | | The district lunatic asylum for the counties of Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, and Kildare, and the county of the city of Kilkenny, is situated in this town, and was built in 1831, at an expense, including the cost of erection and purchase of land and furniture, of £24,552. |
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