Carnew
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Carnew Carn an Bhua
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Main street, Carnew
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 Carnew
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| Coordinates: 52°42′32″N 6°29′42″W / 52.709°N 6.495°WCoordinates: 52°42′32″N 6°29′42″W / 52.709°N 6.495°W | |
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 Ireland
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| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Wicklow |
| Elevation | 105 m (344 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Urban | 1,091 |
| Irish Grid Reference | T013631 |
Carnew (Irish: Carn an Bhua, meaning "Victory mound") is a village in County Wicklow, Ireland. It is the most southerly town in Wicklow situated just a mile from the border with County Wexford. For historical reasons it has often been described as "a Protestant enclave".
Carnew is a market town situated in the extreme south of County Wicklow, almost on the County Wexford border on the R725 road Carlow to Gorey Road.
See the Street View of Carnew on Google Maps
Bus Éireann route 132 from Rosslare Europort to Dublin serves Carnew on Thursdays only providing a means of travelling into Tallaght or Dublin for a few hours. Wicklow Rural Transport operate a route linking Carnew to Gorey.
Carnew made its first appearance in historical records in 1247 as the Norman borough of “Carnebothe” with its own Royal Charter granted by King Henry III of England.
A Welshman, Calcott Chambre, leased Carnew castle in 1619, and over the following two decades established a large iron smelting industry just outside the town. He encouraged Welsh families to settle in the area, and created one of the country’s largest deer parks, with a radius of about seven Irish miles.
During the Rebellion of 1641 Chambre and about 160 settlers were besieged in the castle for 22 weeks, compelled to feed on carcasses that ‘had long lain in lime pits’, by a force of around 1,000 insurgents led by the Mastersons, Byrnes and Donal Kavanagh of Ballingate, who also ‘pulled down ye pulpits, burned ye seats and defaced and demolished the church of Carnowe’. When the besieged finally surrendered some of them were hanged, some were detained for service while the largest number, including Chambre, were accompanied by a convoy to Dublin. The castle was held by the Knockloe O’Byrnes until 1649, when it was taken by Sir Richard Talbot. Two years later the castle took a pounding from Cromwell’s Roundheads under the command of Colonel Hewson during the course of which the roof was destroyed. In 1655 an edict was issued ordering all “inhabitants of Carne, Coolattin and Clohamon who had not shown good affection” to be banished, and their property shared amongst the Adventurers.
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