County Carlow gets its name from Old Irish cethrae ('cattle, herd, flock'), which is related to the word ceathar ('four') and therefore means 'plane of four-legged animals'.
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📖 Ancient Restoration County Offaly is named after the Gaelic kingdom of Uí Failghe, which existed from 500 AD up until the Tudor plantations. Failghe, its first king, was a contemporary of St Patrick, ‘whom the saint blessed and from whom the rulers of Offaly descend.’
