The Carlow County Military Museum is housed in a 19th-century church building. His exhibitions show the military traditions of the region from the 18th century to the present day. There are items related to the troops fighting for the independence of Ireland, the Easter Rising, the War of Independence, World Wars I and II, as well as the participation of local troops in UN peacekeeping missions around the world.
The museum was founded in 1995. The impetus for this was the death of a Carlow soldier, Donie Cunnigham, in a military helicopter crash. The exhibition opens with a plaque and his uniform devoted to him. Since 2001, the museum has been located in the nineteenth-century hospital church, the windows of which are decorated with colorful stained-glass windows.
The Museum has managed to gather a large collection of items related to the military traditions of Carlow County. The oldest items come from the rebellion of 1798. These are the muskets used by the insurgents at the time. The largest part of the exhibition is related to the Irish struggle for freedom in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Here you can see uniforms, maps, documents and weapons of the troops. One of the rooms is dedicated to local troops fighting under the British flag during World War I. Among other things, a copy of the trenches from the western front was built here. The last part of the exhibition concerns the participation of Irish soldiers in peacekeeping missions in Somalia, Lebanon and the Congo.
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