Hacketstown

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title: "Hacketstown" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["towns-and-villages-in-county-carlow", "civil-parishes-of-county-carlow", "civil-parishes-of-county-wicklow"] description: "Town in County Carlow, Ireland" topic_path: "general/towns-and-villages-in-county-carlow" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacketstown" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Town in County Carlow, Ireland ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]

Field	Value
name	Hacketstown
native_name	ga
settlement_type	Town
image_skyline	Main Street Hacketstown Carlow 2011.JPG
image_caption	Main Street
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
unit_pref	Metric
population_as_of	2022
population_footnotes
population_total	653
population_density_km2	auto
timezone1	WET
utc_offset1	+0
timezone1_DST	IST (WEST)
utc_offset1_DST	-1
coordinates
elevation_m	166
blank_name	Irish Grid Reference
blank_info
website
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Hacketstown (, IPA:[ˈbˠalʲəˈhaceːdʲ]), historically known as Ballydrohid (), is a small town and civil parish in County Carlow, Ireland, near the border with County Wicklow. The civil parish extends into County Wicklow.

It is located on the R747 road at its junction with the R727. The River Derreen flows westwards just north of the town and the River Derry rises just south of the town.

History

In the early thirteenth century, an Anglo-Norman castle was built on the site where St Brigid's Church sits now.

In the seventeenth century the wealthy Chetham family from New Moston, Lancashire, England 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. On 25 May 1798, there were several skirmishes in the town. Later, on 25 June, several thousand rebels including Michael Dwyer and his followers, tried to capture the military barracks to take the firearms and ammunition. The fighting lasted for the better course of a day. Most of the houses in the village were destroyed and several hundred rebels were killed during the fighting. The military evacuated the barracks and retreated to Tullow, a nearby town.

Hacketstown has a national school and secondary school, Coláiste Eoin. There is a Roman Catholic church, St Bridget's, and a Church of Ireland chapel, St John's.

William Presley, an ancestor of Elvis Presley, was a resident of the town before emigrating to America over 200 years ago.

In 2011, the US town of Hackettstown, New Jersey, declared a sister city relationship with Hacketstown.

References

References

1. "Census Mapping – Hacketstown". [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland).
2. "Baile Haicéid/Hacketstown". [[Placenames Database of Ireland]].
3. "Civil Parish of Hacketstown, Co. Carlow".
4. "Hacketstown History".
5. "Elvis hails from Hacketstown – Celia Murphy explains further – Ireland's Own".
6. lehighvalleylive.com, Steve Novak {{!}} For. (2011-03-15). "Hackettstown, N.J., declares 'sister city' relationship with Hacketstown, Ireland".
7. lehighvalleylive.com, Steve Novak {{!}} For. (2020-01-23). "What's in a name: A New Jersey town's weird Irish connection".

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