With mountains, glorious countryside and river valleys all close at hand, County Carlow is worth discovering and exploring. Against a beautiful landscape visitors to Carlow in Ireland?s sunny south-east will uncover a great holiday experience exhilarating outdoor adventure, traditional rural life, vibrant shopping and a rich cultural heritage. This website provides a full choice of Carlow accommodation both in Carlow town and county including hotels, guesthouses and bed and breakfasts in Carlow.

If you cross the River Barrow at Wellington Bridge, to the west of Carlow town, and drive to the ridge of Killeshin, you get an overview of the vast expanse of The Barrow Valley and County Carlow stretching out before you. The scholars say the Gaelic word for Carlow meant the place of the quadrupeds. The Great Irish Elk once strode proudly here - the surviving antlers attest to that. Red Deer roamed freely on this plain, and cattle, the currency of our ancient civilisation, abounded. Today the same Barrow valley, termed "champagne land" by the chroniclers, is still uncluttered and unspoilt.

It still allows the visitor to commune with nature, at a safe distance, of course. You can still observe the bright-coated cattle in the fields, experience the proximity of horses in their paddocks and enjoy the age-old miracle of being healed while leaning on a gate and absorbing the fresh green of pastures, or the honeyed hues of ripening grain.