Avoca, Dublin

In the garden of Avoca Handweavers in Kilmacanogue, you will find this very special tree. It was planted here in 1874 and was planted as an ordinary Monteray Cypress, but it was soon clear that its limbs were weeping rather than upright. This freak mutation meant that a brand new kind of tree was born and that it is the only mature specimen in the world. This tree has been catalogued as "The Glencormac Cypress".

The Meeting of the Waters is a beautiful place located just out of the town of Avoca, which is 40 miles south of Dublin, in County Wicklow.

It is a magical place where the Rivers Avonbeg and Avonmore meet and for the River Avoca.

This place was made famous by a famous Irish Melody written here by Thomas Moore in 1808.

Travel here via the R752. When you see the pub called the Meetings, park here and have a wander.

it doesn't seem possible, but I walked entirely around this little village chapel and no, no cemetery at all. None. So you have to look for other details to fulfill your photographic requirements. This rose along an old iron fence isn't such a bad or uninteresting consolation afterall...

There's a famous, old weaving mill here, and some of the village bldgs apparently were used as a tv film set years ago...but when you're not so interested in either of those facts, just wander around and see what else catches your eye. Like the shadow of this streetlight against a wall, which looks so Spanish, if you ask me. Even if you don't.

Welcome to Avoca, Co.Wicklow, the home of Ballykissangel, TV show that used to be very popular in Ireland, but since I had no opportunity to watch that in Croatia, didn't mean much to me.
What I did like about the village is that It is so pitoresque, quiet and peaceful . You can see a pub called Fitzgerald's (famous because it was a gathering place of all the characters from the show - of course we had a drink there!) , an Irish Gift Shop, Avoca Gifts and a Post Office. In the distance you can see a church.