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The Story of Co. Carlow
Small but ancient, Carlow, Ceatharlach, sits in the fertile valley of the River Barrow, long a frontier between Gaelic Leinster and the Norman Pale. Here stands the Brownshill Dolmen, its capstone among the heaviest in Europe, a reminder that people have shaped this landscape for five thousand years.
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