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Templeboden (Teampall Buadáin)
This townland is named after Bishop Boden whose grave and the remains of his small church are located in Templeboden graveyard.
Valleymount (An Chrois) Church and Village
This small pretty village contains an old schoolhouse, a forge, a sweathouse and a distinctive church.
Valleymount Bridge
The construction of the Poulaphouca Dam in 1937, to help deal with the water shortages in Dublin, resulted in the village of Ballinahown, 80 homesteads, 300 farms and over 5,500 acres of land being submerged by water. The land was generally arable,…
Wool and Weaving in the King's River Valley County Wicklow 1660's- 1840's
In the late 1600s, a Quaker community settled at Baltyboys in the Kings River valley, County Wicklow, Ireland. The Quakers resurrected wool production in the valley and managed its supply to the Dublin weaving trade. In the early 1700s, Dublin’s…
