County Wicklow - Towns

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A few miles east of Lough Dan lies the attractive village of Roundwood, a horse-riding and angling centre on the banks of the Vartry River. It is claimed that it is the highest village in Ireland.

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This village, 5 miles (8 km) south of Tinahely, lies in a wooded valley almost surrounded by hills. The district was once covered by the extensive Shillelagh Wood, which was famous for its oaks (the oak roofing in St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin came from here). To the east of the village is Coolattin Park, once the large estate of the Fitzwilliam family with its golf course (9). Near by also, at Aghowle, is an ancient church with a twelfth-century doorway and two small round-headed windows with Romanesque ornamentation. The Tinahely horse fair and agricultural show takes place in August each year.

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It is situated 8 miles( 13km) south-west of Aughrim among the hills in the valley of the River Derry.

The area was once part of the estates granted to Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, and near the village are the ruins of a mansion built by him.

The village was destroyed in the 1798 Rising, but rebuilt shortly afterwards. There is a large agricultural show held here annually.

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The seaside resort of Wicklow town is also the county town. Standing on the lower slopes of Ballyguile Hill, it overlooks a wide bay fringed by a crescent curve of coast.

St Mantan, after whose church the town is named, lived at the time of St Patrick. Long after this the town was occupied by the Danes, who called it Wykinglo and made it one of their main maritime bases on the east coast. After the Anglo-Norman invasion in the twelfth century, Wicklow was included in the large grants of land made by Strongbow to Maurice Fitzgerald. Until the seventeenth century the town was repeatedly attacked, as the O' Tooles and O'Byrnes contended with the English for it.

The old town of narrow streets has been considerably modernised, but it still retains much of its old-world atmosphere.

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