Ted Carroll - Early & Private Life

Early & Private Life

Ted Carroll was born in Lisdowney, County Kilkenny in 1939. He was educated locally and later attended St. Kieran's College in Kilkenny, a famed hurling nursery. It was here that his hurling skills were nurtured and developed, and he won an All-Ireland Colleges’ title with the school in 1957. Carroll later studied at University College Dublin and began working with Teagasc in the mid-1960s.

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