This is your County Museum opportunity to & Tourist Office see what you’re Free Admission missing out on June – August Opening Hours Mon - Sat: 10.00am - 5.00pm Located in the heart of Sun & Banks Holidays: 2.00pm - 4.30pm Carlow Town’s ‘Cultural Quarter’ Visit Carlow County - Free Admission - Museum and come away September - May Opening Hours with an understanding of Mon - Sat: 10.00am - 4.30pm the history which makes special and with, no doubt, a few • Last admission half hour before closing stories to tell. • Wheelchair Access See what If you are part of a group/ organisation/historical @CarlowCountyMus or archaeological society /Carlow County Museum then why not pre-book http://carlowcountymuseumblog.wordpress.com/ you’re a Free Guided Tour (10 GPS: 52.836559, -6.928314 people +)

Teachers, let your students enjoy our free fun missing School Quiz and get to handle Museum artefacts as Carlow County Museum, tel: part of the tour (also available through Irish). College Street, 059 9131554 Carlow Town, The School Quiz is also suitable for students of Co. Carlow, email: English language schools. [email protected]

Try our Museum puzzle as a family For more information about the Museum and the by becoming Museum Detectives and history and heritage of County Carlow go to: solving our family activity book. www.carlowcountymuseum.ie

t: 059 9131554 e: [email protected] Find out about the great 19th century scientist John Tyndall who was the first person to discover the greenhouse effect and why the sky is blue. Learn about Kevin Barry, a medical student executed in 1920 in Mountjoy Gaol at the age of 18 for his role in the Irish War of Independence. Also see the smoking pipe of Captain Myles Keogh, killed at the infamous Battle of Little Big Horn.

A must see is the former 19th century hand carved pulpit from Carlow Cathedral. It is no surprise that it has been included in ‘A History of Ireland in 100 Objects’ by , the National Museum of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy.

Carlow Sugar Factory was the first public – private partnership in the history of the Irish State. This was Ireland’s first and largest sugar factory. Following a major local campaign it opened in 1926 where it dominated economic life in Carlow for over The 80 years before its dramatic closure in 2005. magnificent hand crafted View the original gallows trapdoor used for public pulpit from executions in the towns’ gaol. Get an eerie feeling Carlow Cathedral standing under the trapdoor thinking of Lucinda Sly, the last woman hanged in Carlow in 1835 for murdering her husband!

Carlow town and county is situated in the south east of Ireland. The Museum through its displays of times past captures the archaeological and View on going special exhibitions historical treasures of the county. in our temporary galleries. Keep up to date with these Located in the heart of Carlow Town’s ‘Cultural through our website: Quarter’ the Museum is a hidden treasure with four galleries to explore. The Museum building is www.carlowcountymuseum.ie historical in its own right, located in the former Presentation Convent with a restored gold leaf ceiling and stain glass windows.