Lord Lieutenant of Carlow

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Carlow.

There were lieutenants of counties in Ireland until the reign of James II, when they were renamed governors.^[1] The office of Lord Lieutenant was recreated on 23 August 1831.

Governors

• Dudley Bagenal 1689–1690 (Jacobite)^[2]
• Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet 1699–
• Henry O'Brien, 8th Earl of Thomond 1714–1741 ^[3]
• Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st Baronet, of Dunmore 1725–1727
• William Burton 1741– ^[4]
• Beauchamp Bagenal 1767–1800^[5]
• Clement Wolseley^[4]
• William Henry Burton 1767–1800^[6]
• John Staunton Rochfort: 1779–1798 ^[7]–1831^[8]
• David La Touche: 1798–1816^[9]
• William Browne: –1831^[8]
• Henry Bruen: 1816–1831^[10]
• The Lord Downes: 1820–1831^[11]
• Thomas Kavanagh: –1831^[8]

Lord Lieutenants

• The 4th Earl of Bessborough: 17 October 1831 – 1838
• The 5th Earl of Bessborough: November 1838 – 28 January 1880
• Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh: 25 March 1880 – 25 December 1889
• The 2nd Baron Rathdonnell: 26 February 1890 – 1922