Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Hacketstown

Hacketstown, vil., co. Carlow, and par., partly also in co. Wicklow -- par., 11,617 ac., pop. 2500; vil., on river Derreen, 7 miles NW. of Tinahely sta., pop. 721; P.O. Market-day, Thursday. Hacketstown was twice attacked by the insurgents in 1798.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Carlow IrlC
Place: Hacketstown

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