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Leighlinbridge (/ˈlɔːxlᵻn.brɪdʒ/; Irish: Leithghlinn an Droichid, meaning "half-glen or grey glen of the bridge") is a small town on the River Barrow in County Carlow, Ireland. The N9 National primary route once passed through the village, which was by-passed in the 1980s. It now lies on the R705 regional road.
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- Christy nolan singing leighlinbridge in brennan s on the bridge leighlinbridge carlow ireland
- Map of Leighlinbridge Co Carlow Ireland
- Places of interest
- Leighlinbridge meteorite
- Gaelic sports
- Soccer
- People
- Education
- References
Map of Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow, Ireland
It covers the townlands 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, reputedly one of the oldest functioning bridges in Europe. Leighlinbridge has won many environmental awards, including county winner in the National Tidy Towns Competition, first in the Barrow Awards, overall national winner in Ireland's Green Town 2000, and represented Ireland in the European "Entente Florale" competition in 2001.
Places of interest
Leighlinbridge meteorite
On the night of 28 November 1999, a brilliant exploding fireball was observed over Carlow town, which lasted for several seconds before fading and was accompanied by a loud detonation. 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, totalling 271.4 grams in weight, were at the time the first recovered in Ireland since 1865 and are the first fallen rocks found anywhere in Ireland or Britain since 1991. The previous find in Ireland was the Dundrum meteorite which was found near Dundrum, County Tipperary.
Gaelic sports
In Leighlinbridge there are three GAA clubs, Naomh Bríd, Leighlinbridge and Micheal Davitts. Naomh Bríd are a hurling club who compete in both the Carlow Senior Hurling Championship and the Carlow Intermediate Hurling Championship and all underage hurling competitions. Leighlinbridge are a football club who compete in the Carlow Intermediate 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 to play for Micheal Davits.
Soccer
Vale Wanderers is the local soccer club in Leighlinbridge. They are represented at both underage and senior levels.
People
Education
The local school is Leighlinbridge N.S. The most recent report by Dept. of Education inspectors praised 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". It states that "pupils are achieving at commendable levels".