County Carlow Quiz

County town of Carlow

 

Province that Carlow is in

 

Ireland's second longest river, which runs through Carlow

 

A smaller river in Carlow, more associated with County Wexford

 

Roman Catholic diocese with the county town as its cathedral town, "Kildare and ..."

Famous playwright whose mother's family was from Carlow, and after whom the theatre in the county town is named

 

Medical student and IRA soldier, executed at the age of 18 during the Irish War of Independence, who has a statue dedicated to him in the village of Rathvilly and also has a well known song written about him

 

Highest mountain in Carlow

 

Acclaimed Hollywood actress (4 Oscar nominations, for Atonement, Lady Bird, Brooklyn and Little Women) who was brought up in Ardattin, County Carlow

Well known factory which closed in 2005. It had sister factories in Tuam, Mallow and Thurles

 

Nickname for Carlow people, based on a well known vegetable also called the spring onion

 

Nickname for Carlow, "The ... County", based on stone structures in the county

 

2nd biggest town in Carlow with a population of 5,100

Monument in the county town commemorating the 640 insurgents killed in the 1798 rebellion and buried in a mass grave

 

The annual Festival of Writing and Ideas is held here

 

Bordering counties