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CARLOW COUNTY MUSEUM IS DELIGHTED TO WELCOME YOU
Admission remains FREE
HIGHLIGHTS
Carlow County Museum is located in Carlow’s Cultural Quarter, just off the town’s main street and is entered through the tourist office. Spanning four galleries, the museum has a wide collection of items and artefacts from Carlow county including:
- the original gallows trapdoor from Carlow Gaol;
- the 6m carved pulpit from Carlow Cathedral;
- items from Carlow’s Sugar Factory, which operated for almost 80 years;
- the smoking pipe of Captain Myles Keogh, killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn;
- items relating to John Tyndall, the Carlow scientist who discovered the greenhouse effect;
- a 340 million-year-old fossilized squid;
- a special exhibition on St. Willibrord, an English monk who trained in Carlow before becoming the Patron Saint of Luxembourg.
- the last cigarette smoked by and the Death Mask of Kevin Barry, an 18-year-old medical student who was executed for his role in the Irish War of Independence;
- the printing press used by The Nationalist newspapers… and so much more!
CONTACT US
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Carlow County Museum & Carlow Tourist Office
College Street, Carlow Town, Co. Carlow,
R93 E3T2,
Ireland
GPS coordinates: 52.836559, -6.928314. - Telephone: +353 59 913 1554
- Email: museum@carlowcoco.ie
Opening Hours (updated 31st January 2022)
* Morning – last visit 12.30pm, afternoon – last visit 4pm. Until further notice we continue to be closed on weekends and bank holidays.
January to December 2022
*Monday to Friday
*10:00am to 1:00pm, then *2.00pm to 4.30pm
Weekends & Bank Holidays
Currently Closed
*Seasonal | Weekend Opening suspended until further notice
Monday to Saturday
TBC
Sunday & Bank Holidays
TBC
Carlow County Museum is delighted to welcome back visitors to the museum. The health and safety of our visitors and staff is our greatest concern.
With that in mind we would ask you to please take a moment to familiarise yourself with our Reopening Guidelines below before you visit. Please scroll for general admission information and details about the available timeslots.
Admission remains FREE. For further enquiries, please contact us on by phoning the Museum on 059-9131554 or emailing museum@carlowcoco.ie
Opening Hours and available timeslots
From 31st January 2022, Carlow County Museum will be open from Monday to Friday, 10.00am – 1.00pm, with the last admission at 12.3pam. The Museum will then re-open at 2.00pm until 4.30pm, with the last visit at 4.00pm.
The designated last admission times are to allow visitors to view the exhibits, complete their tour and allow the Museum to undertake necessary Covid-19 protocols.
Tours
By Appointment Only
If you are part of a group/ organisation/ historical or archaeological society then why not pre-book a FREE Guided Tour (10+ people)
Teachers, let your students enjoy our free fun School Quiz and get to handle Museum artefacts as part of the tour (also available in Irish)
The School Quiz is also suitable for students of English language schools.
To book in for a tour, please call us on 059-9131554 / or email us at museum@carlowcoco.ie
Parking
Please click on the adjacent place names for links to walking route options to Carlow County Museum from/to:
Nearest parking to Carlow County Museum:
Kennedy Street / Dinn Rí Carpark
Carlow Shopping Centre Carpark (shorter pedestrian access to Tullow Street is also available through the car park (125m)
Coach parking can be found:
Distance from local amenities to Carlow County Museum
Please click on the adjacent place names for links to walking route options to Carlow County Museum from/to:
450m (240m through Carlow College grounds)
885m
430m
637m
1120m
500m
