Comar an Dá Abhann

Comar an Dá Abhann—the Meeting of the Waters—marks the confluence of the Avonmore and Avonbeg rivers in the Vale of Avoca, where the united stream takes the name Avoca and flows eastward toward Arklow. The location derives its English name from the celebrated 1808 ballad by Thomas Moore, who immortalized the vale's picturesque woodland setting in verse during the Victorian enthusiasm for Irish ...