Hacketstown (, IPA:
ˆbË alʲəˈhaceËdʲ, historically known as Ballydrohid (), is a small town in
County Carlow
County Carlow ( ; ga, Contae Cheatharlach) is a county located in the South-East Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster. Carlow is the second smallest and the third least populous of Ireland's 32 traditional counties. Carlow Cou ...
,
Ireland
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, near the border with
County Wicklow
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.
It is located on the
R747 regional road at its junction with the R727. The
River Derreen flows westwards just north of the town and the
River Derry
The River Derry () is a large river in the southeast of Leinster, Ireland, a tributary of the Slaney. It rises just south of Hacketstown, County Carlow, Ireland. It flows southeast to Tinahely, being accompanied by the R747 regional ro ...
rises just south of the town.
History
In the early thirteenth century, an
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castle was built on the site where St Brigid's Church sits now.
In the seventeenth century the wealthy Chetham family from
New Moston
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New Moston Primary School was founded in 1901. New Mo ...
,
Lancashire
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,
England
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acquired lands here. Although they lived mainly in England, a Chetham daughter married into the powerful Irish
Loftus family.
Hacketstown was the scene of two battles during the
1798 rebellion
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.
Hacketstown has a national school and secondary school, Coláiste Eoin. There is a
Roman Catholic
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church, St Bridget's, and a
Church of Ireland
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chapel, St John's.
William Presley, an ancestor of
Elvis Presley
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, was a resident of the town before emigrating to America over 200 years ago.
In 2011, the
US town of
Hackettstown, New Jersey
Hackettstown is a town in Warren County, New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the town's population was 10,248.
Hackettstown was incorporated as a town by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 9, 1853, from portions of Inde ...
, declared a
sister city
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While there are early examples of inter ...
relationship with Hacketstown.
See also
*
List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland
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References
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Towns and villages in County Carlow