Arklow town i Wicklow shire på Irland

Arkiv: County Wicklow, Ireland Genealogy
Länk: Arklow
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Historiskt sett var staden en stor sjöfartsstad, där både stora fartyg och fiskebåtar använde hamnen och skeppsbyggnad var den ledande industrin.

One of the first recorded mentions of the Arklow area concerns Palladius, the first bishop of Ireland who was recorded as landing at Arklow in 431.

After the arrival of the Anglo-Normans, their leader Theobald Walter, ancestor of the Earls of Ormonde, was granted the town and castle of Arklow by Henry II of England. In 1264 the Dominican Order was granted a large tract of land, now known as Abbeylands, where they built Holy Cross Abbey. Some time after 1416, the Manor of Arklow came into the control of the MacMurrough Kings of Leinster, possibly after the death of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond in 1452. In 1525, Muiris Kavanagh, King of Leinster from 1522 to 1531, returned Arklow and its lands to his nephew Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond.

During the Irish Confederate Wars in November 1649, a skirmish took place outside Arklow when Royalist soldiers under Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, ambushed English Commonwealth troops marching to reinforce Wexford. The attack was beaten off and an English garrison was installed in Arklow, while an attempt to retake the town by Irish Confederates in January 1650 failed.

In 1714, John Allen of Stillorgan, County Dublin, purchased the Manor of Arklow from James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, shortly before the latter went into exile as a Jacobite. In 1750, Allen's eldest granddaughter Elizabeth, married John Proby, 1st Baron Carysfort, who came into possession of the Arklow Estate as a result.

In the Battle of Arklow on 9 June 1798, one of the bloodiest events of the 1798 rebellion, a large force of Wexford rebels attacked the town in an attempt to spread the rising to Dublin but were repulsed by the entrenched British forces with many hundreds killed.

Det engelska namnet på staden kommer av Arknell's Lág (Arknell var namnet på en vikinghövding, en lág (low) var ett markområde). Det iriska namnet, An tInbhear Mór (eller Inbhear Mór), betyder ”det stora estuariet” . Utgrävningar från vikingatiden i detta område finns nu att skåda i Irlands nationalmuseum i Dublin.

Stenbron Nineteen Arches Bridge sammanbinder den södra (huvuddelen) delen av staden med den norra. Den norra delen kallas Ferrybank.