If the poetry and passion of Van Morrison's Streets of Arklow have brought you here, you may well be disappointed. While it's an ideal point from which to access the intensely pretty Vale of Avoca, the town itself is chiefly a commercial centre wrapped around an old port. ARKLOW has a long and prosperous history based on fishing, shipbuilding and the export of copper ore, pyrites and even gold, mined further up the valley. While no longer a major port, shipb... [More]