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CARLOW - CEATHARLOCH. THE FOUR LAKES - The old name of this town Ceatharloch means, according to Joyce, "four lakes", the name being pronounced Caherlough, which was easily softened down to Carlow. According to tradition the River Barrow once formed four lakes there, but of these there is now no trace. The line of an 18th century song "Down by the lakes in Carlow", recalls the old tradition. Carlow, the principal town in the county of the same name, has a population of 7,175 (1926). In the town and neighbourhood are flour mills, boot and mineral water factories, malt houses, and the first Irish sugar-beet factory.