Leighlinbridge

{{Short description|Village in County Carlow, Ireland}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}

{{Use Hiberno-English|date=February 2021}}

{{Infobox settlement

|name = Leighlinbridge

|native_name = {{Irish place name|Leithghlinn an Droichid}}

|native_name_lang = ga

|settlement_type = town

|image_skyline = Leighlinbridge3836.jpg

|image_caption = The Black Castle on the River Barrow in Leighlinbridge

|pushpin_map = Ireland

|pushpin_label_position = right

|pushpin_map_caption = Location in Ireland

|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = Ireland

|subdivision_type1 = Province

|subdivision_name1 = Leinster

|subdivision_type3 = County

|subdivision_name3 = County Carlow

|established_title =

|established_date =

|unit_pref = Metric

|area_footnotes =

|area_total_km2 =

|population_as_of = 2022

|population_footnotes = {{cite web | title = Census Mapping - Towns: Leighlinbridge - Population Snapshot | publisher = Central Statistics Office Ireland |website = visual.cso.ie | date=April 2022 | url = https://visual.cso.ie/?body=entity/ima/cop/2022&boundary=C04160V04929&guid=dc9f4f11-ff10-4a33-8c07-3ed756b3f548 | accessdate = 17 June 2024 }}

|population = 959

|population_density_km2 = auto

|timezone1 = WET

|utc_offset1 = +0

|timezone1_DST = IST (WEST)

|utc_offset1_DST = -1

|coordinates = {{coord|52.7364|-6.9725|dim:100000_region:IE|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|elevation_footnotes =

|elevation_m = 41

|blank_name = Irish Grid Reference

|blank_info = {{iem4ibx|S694654}}

|website =

|footnotes =

}}

{{Historical populations|state=collapsed

|1831|2035

|1841|1748

|1851|1292

|1861|1245

|1871|1066

|1881|835

|1891|744

|1901|646

|1911|544

|1926|406

|1936|425

|1946|394

|1951|326

|1956|375

|1961|457

|1966|444

|1971|379

|1981|515

|1986|540

|1991|510

|1996|508

|2002|646

|2006|674

|2011|828

|2016|914

|2022|959

| footnote=[http://www.cso.ie/census Census for post 1821 figures.]{{Cite web |url=http://www.histpop.org/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2020-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507023856/http://www.histpop.org/ |archive-date=2016-05-07 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |title=Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency - Census Home Page |accessdate=2014-04-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095720/http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |archive-date=2012-02-17 }}{{cite book

| last=Lee

| first=JJ

| author-link=J. J. Lee (historian)

| editor-last=Goldstrom

| editor-first=J. M.

| editor2-last=Clarkson

| editor2-first=L. A.

| title=Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell

| year=1981

| publisher=Clarendon Press

| location=Oxford, England

| chapter=On the accuracy of the Pre-famine Irish censuses

}}{{Cite journal

| last1 = Mokyr

| first1 = Joel

| author-link = Joel Mokyr

| last2 = O Grada

| first2 = Cormac

| author2-link =

| title = New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850

| journal = The Economic History Review

| volume = 37

| issue = 4

| pages = 473–488

|date=November 1984

| url = http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract

| archive-url = https://archive.today/20121204160709/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract

| url-status = dead

| archive-date = 2012-12-04

| doi = 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x

| hdl = 10197/1406

| hdl-access = free

}}{{Cite web|url=http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2011/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST&Geog_Code=01007#T1_100|title=Census 2011 - Sapmap data }}{{cite web | title = Sapmap Area - Settlements - Leighlinbridge | publisher = Central Statistics Office Ireland |work = Census 2016 | date=April 2016 | url = http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=76DA4DC6-8947-4022-9991-872A7F677819 | accessdate = 26 December 2019 }}

}}

Leighlinbridge ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|ɔː|x|l|ᵻ|n|.|b|r|ɪ|dʒ}}; {{Irish place name|Leithghlinn an Droichid|'half-glen' or 'grey glen' of the bridge}})[http://www.logainm.ie/3376.aspx Leighlinbridge] Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved: 2013-02-16. is a small town on the River Barrow in County Carlow, Ireland. It is 11 km south of Carlow town, on the R705 road. The N9 national primary route once passed through the village, but was by-passed in the 1980s.

It covers the townlands of Leighlin (east bank of the river) and Ballyknockan (west bank). The village features narrow winding streets, grey limestone malthouses and castle ruins overlooking a 14th-century bridge across the River Barrow. Leighlinbridge has won the National Tidy Towns Competition, has come first in the Barrow Awards, been an overall national winner in Ireland's Green Town 2000, and represented Ireland in the European "Entente Florale" competition in 2001.{{cite web|title=Leighlinbridge |work=Carlow Tourism |url=http://www.carlowtourism.com/ententeleighlin.html |accessdate=2007-12-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117033618/http://www.carlowtourism.com/ententeleighlin.html |archive-date=2007-11-17 |url-status=dead }}