County Carlow Football Club is a rugby club in Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland. The club was founded in October 1873, and is one of the oldest rugby clubs in Ireland. As was usual in the days preceding the development of Gaelic Football and Soccer and prior to the foundation of the Rugby Football Union, the earlier clubs were known simply as Football Clubs with no mention of rugby in the title. The Co. Carlow club was formed, therefore, (and is correctly known) as "Co. Carlow Football Club." Other clubs with this distinction include Dublin University FC - founded in 1854; Queen's University (1869); Wanderers FC (1870); Lansdowne FC (1872) and Garryowen FC (1884).
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