Accommodation leighlinbridge

Leighlinbridge is pleasantly situated by the Rvier Barrow and the river is spanned here by a fine stone bridge with Black Castle on its eastern side. This was one of the earliest Narman castles in Ireland and was erected in 1181. Black Castle withstood many sieges by the MacMurrough Kavanaghs. The first Carmelite priory in Ireland was founded here in 1270 by the Norman family of Carew.