Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society

News & Events

CHAS Lecture: The Lost Colony – Carlows Huguenot Heritage
The second half of the seventeenth century saw the arrival in Ireland of...
Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society AGM 2018
Notice is hereby given that the 72nd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the...
Call for Papers for Carloviana 2019
The Editorial Committee of Carloviana are now accepting papers for Carloviana 2019....
New Local History Course starting January 2018
The local Irish history course at Carlow College, St. Patrick’s will examine the...

Projects

Old Lanes & Streets of Carlow
Have you ever wondered where Bowling Green Lane was in Carlow town?...
Ballon Hill Archaeology Project
Through the information currently available, it appears as though Ballon Hill, Co. Carlow...

Schools History Prize Winners 2017
CARLOW Historical and Archaeological Society presented prizes to winners of the Primary School...
Schools History Prize Winners 2016
The winners of this year’s Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society History Project Competition...

Lectures

The Great War through the eyes of the Poets
An evening presentation by Jim Shannon titled “The Great War through the eyes...
The Tudor Marshals of Leinster 1530-1580
The third lecture in the 2017-18 Carlow Historical & Archaeological Society winter ...
Cattle Plague in Ireland: An Early Medieval Game-Changer
In Cattle in Ancient Ireland, A.T. Lucas (1989) wrote ‘In early times wealth...
Carlow Lunatic Asylum, 1832–1922
On Wednesday 18th of October the first CHAS lecture of the 2017/2018 series...

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About Us

The Carlow Historical & Archaeological Society (until 2001 known as The Old Carlow Society) was formed in 1946