Qualla: County Wicklow https://qualla.com/county-wicklow en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: County Wicklow https://qualla.com/county-wicklow County Wicklow: Introduction https://qualla.com/county-wicklow/ Wicklow was the last of Ireland's thirty-two traditional counties to be shired. The English Crown carved it out in 1606 - five centuries after most of the others had been mapped - and the reason was simple: the central uplands had been ungovernable for too long. The O'Byrnes and O'Tooles had made the Wicklow Mountains their stronghold for four hundred years, raiding the lowlands and vanishing back into the glens. Settling the area required defining it, naming it, putting a sheriff in it. The Vikings had already done the naming part. They had landed at the meadow by the harbour and called it Vikingalo - 'the Vikings' Meadow' - and the word eventually shrank to Wicklow.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/7/m/county-wicklow-wp/gc7m-county-wicklow-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full County Wicklow: Granite Heart https://qualla.com/county-wicklow/ The Wicklow Mountains form the largest continuous upland in Ireland and occupy the whole centre of the county. Lugnaquilla, at 925 metres, is the highest peak in the range and the highest mountain in Ireland outside County Kerry. The range sits on the Leinster batholith, the larg...

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