Arklow

Arklow, a seaport in the county Wicklow, Ireland, on the Avoca river, close to the sea, and twelve miles from Wicklow. The railway from Dublin to Wexford passes through. The lower town is the fishermen's quarter, the inhabitants being mostly engaged in the herring and oyster fisheries. The old castle now in ruins was destroyed by Cromwell in 1649, and a sharp encounter between the United Irishmen and the British troops took place near the town in 1798.