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Avoca (Irish: Abhóca, formerly Abhainn Mhór, meaning 'the great river') [2] is a small town near Arklow, in County Wicklow, Ireland.It is situated on the River Avoca.. The Avoca area has been associated with its copper mines for many years and the valley has been celebrated by Thomas Moore in the song "The Meeting of the Waters".
Avoca Handweavers, now mostly known simply as Avoca, is a clothing manufacturing, retail and food business in Ireland. The company began in Avoca , County Wicklow , and is the oldest working woollen mill in Ireland and one of the world's oldest manufacturing companies.
The village of Avoca is situated on the river. The Avoca flows into the Irish Sea at Arklow where it widens into a large estuary, giving Arklow its Irish language name an t-Inbhear Mór (the big inlet). [citation needed] The catchment area of the Avoca is 652 km 2. [2] The long term average flow rate of the Avoca is 20.2 cubic metres per second ...
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Woodenbridge (Irish: an Droichead Adhmaid) [1] is a small village in County Wicklow, Ireland. It lies between Arklow and Avoca, at the meeting of the Avoca, Aughrim and Goldmine rivers. The village is located at the junction of the R747 and R752 roads. The R747 crosses the Aughrim on the stone bridge which is still called "Wooden Bridge".
It flows in a generally southerly direction for approximately 30 km (19 mi) before joining the Avonbeg at the Meeting of the Waters (Cumar an dá Uisce) to form the River Avoca, [1] which in turn discharges into the Irish Sea at Arklow. From source to sea the river remains in East Wicklow.
The following places in countries other than Ireland are named after places in Ireland. Massive emigration, often called the Irish diaspora, from Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries resulted in many towns and regions being named or renamed after places in Ireland. The following place names sometimes share strong ties with the original place ...
The Avonbeg River (Irish: Abhainn Beag, meaning 'small river') rises on the northern flank of Camenabologue in the Wicklow Mountains and flows southeast into the valley of Glenmalure.