At the very start you are looking at a hotel which has since become an provision centre for Asylum seekers so dont be surprised if you see all sorts of african/south american etc. looking people emerge from there. Directly opposite behind the crenilated wall is the abbey grounds with runis of a monastic Settlement dating inot as far back as other Wicklow monastaries ( after all Christianity apparently arrived in Ireland at Wicklow and the name in Irish has the name of the monk Mantán who was the first christian in Ireland, in the 300s?) Anyway this only dates to the second generation Angle Normans, the Early 1200s. @ 52secs if you turn right the RC church is just up the Hill worth looking at @2:29 the Ice cream sign ... local newsagent and coffee shop you can walk through and has a back entrance into a car park. there is a double Elevtric Vehicle car charget there. You can also access it on foot through the arch beside the tourist office @3:26 there is another coffee shop @3:37 you are looking at the door to the Tourist Office. To the left is an archway to a car park which can be accessed by car at the next junction left. @6:56 looking under the Blue sign about 100 yards away is where Halpin was born. His monumant is back opposite the tourist office. He was the captain of the Great Easter which laid the first transoceanic cable. @8:37 in case you missed the sign on the way down is Bridge Street Books @12:27 Sammy the seals favoutite spot to cross the road... opposite the fish shop. They stopped giving him fish and he seems to have socially disdanced duriong Covid and disappeared in early summer 2020 but he was back again In March 2021 when I saw him getting hand fed from a fishing boat. @12:54 If you looked left about 50 yards away is an entrance to the left to and Organic/environmental produce shop and a vegan/vegitarian resturant run by a lay order of brothers and sisters. @16:59 backing onto Tá Sé a pub for a session yu are looking at a monument to the Wicklow Rebellions @18:23 thats the Gaol ( Jail for those that are seperated by the atlantic Ocean and a common lunguage) People were hanged from that little " door" at the top middle. Another nasty piece of work was Lieutenant Hepenstall one of the Wicklow Militia. He was called The "Walking Gallows". iIf he took disike to you on the street and you could not explain your business there he struck you and strung you from his backand walking around with you ( he was something like six foor ten) until you died.@19:36 another double charger in the car park to the left and the entrance to the convent...they have a shop and a 70 acre organic farm
I don't think your comment re the grand Hotel and its residents was racist, you were merely stating facts, you did not use any derogatory or offensive language.
@@Vent330 I happen to have made friends with a black african man and a brazalian who live in the hotel. I wonder how many denizens of direct provision centres and their families my accuser calling me a racist has driven around the countryside for free and had tea with?
Quite, some people are too quick to throw the racist word around, I remember when the refugees arrived, I was visiting family at the time, on the whole the people of wicklow were very welcoming, the only concerns were that the town no longer had a hotel, a perfectly legitimate concern, the grand was such a huge part of the community for generations
Quite, some people are too quick to throw the racist word around, I remember when the refugees arrived, I was visiting family at the time, on the whole the people of wicklow were very welcoming, the only concerns were that the town no longer had a hotel, a perfectly legitimate concern, the grand was such a huge part of the community for generations
I'll be honest-the river was impressive, but the town seemed incredibly quiet and a little bit like an industrial area. I expected a historic town, littered with antique shops, cafe's and interesting buildings. I'm hoping to visit Ireland, but Galway is the most impressive town/city I've seen so far.
At the very start you are looking at a hotel which has since become an provision centre for Asylum seekers so dont be surprised if you see all sorts of african/south american etc. looking people emerge from there.
Directly opposite behind the crenilated wall is the abbey grounds with runis of a monastic Settlement dating inot as far back as other Wicklow monastaries ( after all Christianity apparently arrived in Ireland at Wicklow and the name in Irish has the name of the monk Mantán who was the first christian in Ireland, in the 300s?)
Anyway this only dates to the second generation Angle Normans, the Early 1200s.
@ 52secs if you turn right the RC church is just up the Hill worth looking at
@2:29 the Ice cream sign ... local newsagent and coffee shop you can walk through and has a back entrance into a car park. there is a double Elevtric Vehicle car charget there. You can also access it on foot through the arch beside the tourist office
@3:26 there is another coffee shop
@3:37 you are looking at the door to the Tourist Office. To the left is an archway to a car park which can be accessed by car at the next junction left.
@6:56 looking under the Blue sign about 100 yards away is where Halpin was born. His monumant is back opposite the tourist office. He was the captain of the Great Easter which laid the first transoceanic cable.
@8:37 in case you missed the sign on the way down is Bridge Street Books
@12:27 Sammy the seals favoutite spot to cross the road... opposite the fish shop. They stopped giving him fish and he seems to have socially disdanced duriong Covid and disappeared in early summer 2020 but he was back again In March 2021 when I saw him getting hand fed from a fishing boat.
@12:54 If you looked left about 50 yards away is an entrance to the left to and Organic/environmental produce shop and a vegan/vegitarian resturant run by a lay order of brothers and sisters.
@16:59 backing onto Tá Sé a pub for a session yu are looking at a monument to the Wicklow Rebellions
@18:23 thats the Gaol ( Jail for those that are seperated by the atlantic Ocean and a common lunguage) People were hanged from that little " door" at the top middle. Another nasty piece of work was Lieutenant Hepenstall one of the Wicklow Militia. He was called The "Walking Gallows". iIf he took disike to you on the street and you could not explain your business there he struck you and strung you from his backand walking around with you ( he was something like six foor ten) until you died.@19:36 another double charger in the car park to the left and the entrance to the convent...they have a shop and a 70 acre organic farm
Racist lad
I don't think your comment re the grand Hotel and its residents was racist, you were merely stating facts, you did not use any derogatory or offensive language.
@@Vent330 I happen to have made friends with a black african man and a brazalian who live in the hotel. I wonder how many denizens of direct provision centres and their families my accuser calling me a racist has driven around the countryside for free and had tea with?
Quite, some people are too quick to throw the racist word around, I remember when the refugees arrived, I was visiting family at the time, on the whole the people of wicklow were very welcoming, the only concerns were that the town no longer had a hotel, a perfectly legitimate concern, the grand was such a huge part of the community for generations
Quite, some people are too quick to throw the racist word around, I remember when the refugees arrived, I was visiting family at the time, on the whole the people of wicklow were very welcoming, the only concerns were that the town no longer had a hotel, a perfectly legitimate concern, the grand was such a huge part of the community for generations
I'll be honest-the river was impressive, but the town seemed incredibly quiet and a little bit like an industrial area. I expected a historic town, littered with antique shops, cafe's and interesting buildings. I'm hoping to visit Ireland, but Galway is the most impressive town/city I've seen so far.
If your visiting Ireland I would avoid Wicklow town I've lived here all my life and I can't stand the place very boring
he missed the Weir on the other side of the Bridge!
@@jlcrproductions301 I feel drawn to Wicklow Town for some reason.
@@MrLinarez90 ah well sure visit then if that's what you want maybe I don't like it cause I've been in it most me life
@@jlcrproductions301 familiarity breeds contempt
Beautiful, goosebumps
Hy
îs there any leisure center ,also the Sport addict store?
Pool near the railway station and river walk
i never knew wicklow was a city
It's not ! It's a town
@@Vent330 well i wouldnt know i live in the lovely little quaint village of rathnew
@@conlangknow8787 and I live in the lovely quaint wicklow town !
@@Vent330 no wicklow town is shit, ruins the scenery, and the reputation of the surrounding villages
@@conlangknow8787 eloquent
Wicklow is a nice town. Why is the tar on the roads so rough in Irish towns? It's much smoother and darker tar used in other EU countries.
Muppet
You missed out on the best part.the pier & black castle.
Id say dany has seen this
So nice
City Centre???? What city? Dabalu dabalu, yup te dablin lads….. how’s it gooooooo innnnnn.?????? Iiii dunnnnnnoooooo ladssss. (Wicklow accent.).com.