In 1799, the Irish poet Thomas Moore sat beneath a great tree overlooking the confluence where the Avonmore ("great river") and Avonbeg ("little river") unite to create the Avoca, penning the immortal verses that began "There is not in this wide world a valley so sweet, As tha…
Avoca is a small place in County Wicklow. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.