Wicklow County

Wicklow County is Beautiful!  We took The Grand Wicklow Tour when we were in Dublin which is a wonderful way to see some of the more historic sites. First of all we stopped at the Russborough House. It’s often called the most beautiful house in Ireland. Only two families lived there over a period of two centuries. While everyone on the tour was taking pictures of the table settings, the furniture and the light fixtures, I didn’t get excited until we got to the library.

 Onto Glendalough, where the grounds and cemetery are hauntingly beautiful. There was a wedding reception going on if you can imagine. The dinner was inside the hotel and the bar was set up under a gazebo in the midst of the cemetery. Imagine after dark, standing alongside the tombstones drinking a glass of wine.

 Third stop was Avoca, where the oldest working woollen mill and the world’s oldest surviving business resides.

We drove through the area where Braveheart and Becoming Jane were filmed, also the movie Michael Collins and the series Ballykiss Angel. Fitzgerald’s is the pub where most of the Ballykiss Angel series took place.