Historic Books about Carlow

County and Area Histories

Cumann Lut Cleas Co Ceatarloca 1886-1927 (Fr Lawlor’s History of Carlow GAA – courtesy Doyle Family, Clonmore)

The History and Antiquities of the County of Carlow – John Ryan, (1833)

Collections Relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin Vol 1 – Bishop Michael Comerford (1883)

Collections Relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin Vol 2 – Bishop Michael Comerford (1883)

Collections Relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin Vol 3 – Bishop Michael Comerford (1883) – Carlow Material

The Carlow Parliamentary Roll – Robert Malcolmson (1872)

The Reign of Terror in Carlow – James Nisbet (1841)

Carlow Past and Present – Michael Brophy (1888)

The Antiquities of Cluain-Mor-Maedhoc, Now Clonmore in the County of Carlow – John McCall (1862)

The Antiquities of Leighlin – Rev James Coyle (before 1926)

Legends of Mount Leinster – Harry Whitney (1855)

Religious History

The Letters of Rev James Maher D.D. with a Memoir – Rev. P.F. Moran Ed. (1877)

The Life, Times and Correspondence of the Right Rev. Dr. Doyle (JKL) Vol 1. – William John Fitzpatrick (1862)

The Life, Times and Correspondence of the Right Rev. Dr. Doyle (JKL) Vol 1. – William John Fitzpatrick (1862)

Bishop Doyle ‘JLK’ A Biographical and Historical Study – Michael McDonagh (1896)

The Advance and Retreat of the Catholic Priests at Carlow (1825)

A Genealogy of Moses and Susanna Coates (1906) – Carlow Quakers

Families, Memoirs and Biographies

Sketches of the Royal Irish Constabulary – Michael Brophy (1886)

The Life and Times of Sir Peter Carew Kt – John McLean (1857)

Vicissitudes of an Anglo Irish Family 1530-1800 – Philip H. Bagenal (1925) – History of Bagenal Family

Popery Unmasked. A Narrative of Twenty Years of Popish Persecution – John Ryan (1845)

Queens County/Laois

History of the Queens County Volume 1 – Hanlon & O’Leary (1907)

History of the Queens County Volume 2 – Hanlon & O’Leary (1907)

A Descriptive and Architectural sketch of the Grace Mausoleum in the Queens County – William Shaw Mason & Sheffield Grace (1819)