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Come visit the award winning Carlow County Museum and see what you’re missing.

The Museum is located on College Street in the Cultural Quarter of Carlow Town. We are open all year round and we have free admission. Carlow County Museum is operated by Carlow County Council in association with the Carlow Historical & Archaeological Society (C.H.A.S.). Among the items on display over four galleries is the famous and magnificent 19th century hand carved pulpit from Carlow Cathedral. The pulpit has been included in the book ‘A History of Ireland in 100 Objects’ by Fintan O’Toole, winner of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2013 ‘Best Irish-published Book of the Year’. The pulpit is over 20ft tall and is made entirely of oak. Also on view is the original gallows trapdoor from the Carlow Gaol which was used during the 19th century for public executions. See the wooden smoking pipe of Captain Myles Keogh, who was killed at the infamous Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. Find out about the great 19th century scientist John Tyndall who was the first person to discover the greenhouse effect and has a peak in the Alps named after him. The Museum is home to the remains of the last cigarette smoked by Kevin Barry, a medical student from Co. Carlow was executed in 1920 in Mountjoy Gaol, Dublin at the age of 18 for his role in the Irish War of Independence.

View our special exhibition: ‘Journeys in Time – The Archaeology of the Carlow By-pass’ reveals the many archaeological treasurers found along the route of the M9 Carlow By-pass including the Museum’s smallest object, an Iron Age glass bead which is less than 2mm. This exhibition is in association with the National Museum of Ireland and the National Roads Authority.

Carlow County Museum & Carlow Tourist Office,
College Street,
Carlow Town,
Co. Carlow, Ireland
Tel: 059 – 9131554
Email: [email protected]

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