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Leighlinbridge

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and all underage hurling competitions. Leighlinbridge are a football club who compete in the Carlow Junior Football Championship. Micheal Davitts are a football club who compete at underage level in Carlow. Players from neighbouring villages Old Leighlin and Ballinabranna combine with Leighlinbridge
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for several seconds. An elderly lady in Leighlinbridge recovered a fusion crusted individual meteoritic rock on 12 December 1999, and later two more specimens were found. It is now officially called the "Leighlinbridge" by the International Meteorite Nomenclature Committee. The meteorites, totalled
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The local primary school is Leighlinbridge N.S. The most recent report by Department of Education inspectors noted the "welcoming, supportive and inclusive school atmosphere", and the "high quality teaching, as well as the openness and reflectivity that exists amongst the teaching staff".
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of Leighlin (east bank of the river) and Ballyknockan (west bank). The village features narrow winding streets, grey limestone malthouses and castle ruins overlooking a 14th-century bridge across the River Barrow. Leighlinbridge has won the
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wall are all that can be seen today. The Arboretum Garden Centre is a located a kilometre east of the village at the Leighlinbridge Cross with the
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Vale Wanderers is the local soccer club in Leighlinbridge. They are represented at both underage and senior levels.
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clubs, Naomh Bríd, Leighlinbridge and Micheal Davitts. Naomh Bríd are a hurling club who compete in both the
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On the night of 28 November 1999, a loud detonation and bright fireball was observed over
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Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell
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once passed through the village, but was by-passed in the 1980s.
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Irish censuses". In Goldstrom, J. M.; Clarkson, L. A. (eds.).
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in 1876. He was born in Orchard, Leighlinbridge in 1840.
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The Black Castle on the River Barrow in Leighlinbridge
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Irish
The Black Castle on the River Barrow in Leighlinbridge
Leighlinbridge is located in Ireland
52°44′11″N 6°58′21″W / 52.7364°N 6.9725°W / 52.7364; -6.9725
Ireland
Province
Leinster
County
County Carlow
Time zone
UTC+0
WET
DST
UTC-1
IST
WEST
Irish Grid Reference
S694654
/ˈlɔːxlɪn.brɪ/
Irish
River Barrow
County Carlow
Ireland
Carlow
R705 road
N9
national primary route
townlands
National Tidy Towns Competition
Leighlinbridge Castle

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