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Carlow (Ireland : County)

LC control no.n 82127946
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Geographic headingCarlow (Ireland : County)
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Geographic subdivision usageIreland--Carlow (County)
Variant(s)Carlow, Ire. (County)
Ceatharlach (Ireland : County)
County Carlow (Ireland)
Contae Cheatharlach (Ireland)
Associated countryIreland
Associated placeLeinster (Ireland)
LocatedCarlow (Ireland)
Found inGt. Brit. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. List of townlands ... 1910.
Statesman's yrbk world gaz., 1975 (Carlow, Irish Republic; county; name also of a town in the same county)
GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (adm1; 52°40ʹ00ʺN 006°50ʹ00ʺW)
GEOnet, 25 July 2017 (Carlow (approved and short; English); also approved: County Carlow, Ceatharlach (Irish, approved and short), Contae Cheatharlach; geopolitical entity name: Ireland; first-order administrative division name: Carlow / Ceatharlach; 52° 44ʹ 00ʺ N, 006° 50ʹ 00ʺ W; 52.733333 [N], -6.833333 [W]; first-order administrative division; lists another place named Carlow as the seat of a first-order administrative division)
Logainm.ie (Placenames database of Ireland), 25 July 2017 (Ceatharlach; validated name (Irish); genitive: Cheatharlach; Carlow (English); county; 8 baronies listed under the county, 48 civil parishes; latitude: 52.7385130397084010; longitude: -6.8165316819722097)
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Wikipedia, 25 July 2017 (County Carlow; Irish: Contae Cheatharlach; a county in Ireland, part of the South-East Region and the province of Leinster; named after the town of Carlow, the county town; Carlow County Council is the local authority; originally part of the Norman Palatine-County of Leinster, became a separate county probably around 1306; at that time, it was larger than today, extending to and including the coastal area around Arklow; these areas were given over to County Wicklow in 1606-07; seven historic baronies in the county: Carlow, Forth, Idrone East, Idrone West, Rathvilly, St Mullin's Lower, and St Mullin's Upper; 52° 40ʹ 00ʺ N, 006° 50ʹ 00ʺ W; 52.666667, -6.833333)
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