Abhóca

Abhóca (the great river) sits in the civil parish of Castlemacadam, barony of Arklow, in the Vale of Avoca—a striking river valley where the Avonmore and Avonbeg rivers meet. The settlement was historically known as Newbridge until the late 1800s, when the Anglicized Victorian name Avoca came into use, popularized by Thomas Moore's 1807 melody "The Meeting of the Waters," one of Ireland's most ...