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. The office of Lord Lieutenant was recreated on 23 August 1831.
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Governors
Dudley Bagenal 1689–1690 (Jacobite)
Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet 1699–
Henry O'Brien, 8th Earl of Thomond 1714–1741
Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st Baronet, of Dunmore 1725–1727
William Burton 1741–
Beauchamp Bagenal 1767–1800
Clement Wolseley
William Henry Burton 1767–1800
John Staunton Rochfort: 1779–1798 –1831
David La Touche: 1798–1816
William Browne: –1831
Henry Bruen: 1816–1831
Ulysses Burgh, 2nd Baron Downes: 1820–1831
Thomas Kavanagh: –1831
Lord Lieutenants
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough: 17 October 1831 – 1838
John Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough: November 1838 – 28 January 1880
Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh: 25 March 1880 – 25 December 1889
Thomas McClintock-Bunbury, 2nd Baron Rathdonnell: 26 February 1890 – 1922