Wicklow
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a county of E Republic of Ireland, in Leinster province on the Irish Sea: consists of a coastal strip rising inland to the Wicklow Mountains ; mainly agricultural, with several resorts. County town: Wicklow. Pop: 114 676 (2002). Area: 2025 sq km (782 sq miles)
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a port in E Republic of Ireland, county town of Co Wicklow. Pop: 9355 (2002)
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Last year, parents from eight primary schools in County Wicklow, Ireland, agreed not to give their children smartphones before they went to secondary school to relieve the peer pressure from other children already having access.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2024
While Hozier, who lives in the countryside of Wicklow, Ireland, has benefited from listeners sharing their intimate moments on social media accompanied by his music, he reveals little of himself online, or in interviews.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024
In 2009 he became a councillor in Wicklow, attracting the highest individual vote of any candidate in the county.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2024
Some people laid flowers outside her former home in Bray, County Wicklow, with one handwritten message on a picture of O'Connor on the front page of a newspaper reading "incomparable xx."
From Reuters • Jul. 27, 2023
The sun had died behind the Wicklow hills; still the Protestant chimes brayed fitfully across the sea, though the cannon at dusk were silent.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
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