Wicklow, Ireland Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

WICKLOW , seventeen miles south of Bray, is the first place that wholly escapes the influence of Dublin as you go down the coast. It's an easy-going, ramshackle county town of solidly built houses in bright marine pastels, enlivened by its fine setting: the Vartry River broadens into a lough here before flowing into the Irish Sea, cutting off a narrow strip of land, the Murrough , that's rich in bird life, notably wintering swans and geese. On the south side of the river mouth, a knoll encrusted with some meagre piles of stone constitutes all that's left of Black Castle , one of the fortifications built by … more »