Hacketstown (Irish: Baile Haicéid,[2] IPA:[ˈbˠalʲəˈhaceːdʲ]), historically known as Ballydrohid (Irish: Baile an Droichead), is a small town and civil parish in County Carlow, Ireland, near the border with County Wicklow.

[citation needed] In the early thirteenth century, an Anglo-Norman castle was built on the site where St Brigid's Church sits now.

[4] In the seventeenth century the wealthy Chetham family from New Moston, Lancashire, England acquired lands here.

Although they lived mainly in England, a Chetham daughter married into the powerful Irish Loftus family.

Later, on 25 June, several thousand rebels including Michael Dwyer and his followers, tried to capture the military barracks to take the firearms and ammunition.