River Dargle
| River Dargle An Deargail | |
|---|---|
 River Dargle in Bray, County Wicklow | |
| Origin | Wicklow Mountains |
| Mouth | Irish Sea at Bray Harbour |
The River Dargle (Irish: An Deargail, meaning "little red spot", so called with reference to the prevailing tint of its rocks) rises in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland on the northern slopes of Djouce Mountain and flows over the highest waterfall in Ireland, falling 121m (398 feet) at Powerscourt Waterfall. It then flows through the Glencree Valley where it is fed by the River Glencree before flowing east for a further 14 km (8.7 mi) to reach the Irish Sea at Bray Harbour.
Cultural references
The song Waxies' Dargle commemorates the annual outing of Dublin shoe-makers and repairers ("waxies") to this spot.[1]
Sir Walter Scott visited the area in 1825 and mistakenly assumed that Dargle was the name for any glen, etc. He used the word in his novel Redgauntlet seven years later: Glen, nor dargle, nor mountain, nor cave, could hide the puir hill-folk.[2]
About 1838 the eminent judge Philip Cecil Crampton, who lived at St. Valery House, by the Dargle, became a supporter of the temperance movement: to show his fidelity to the cause, he emptied the entire contents of his wine cellar into the river.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ Quidnunc (9 October 1933). "An Irishman's Diary". The Irish Times. p. 4.
- ↑ Notes and Queries, January-June 1898
- ↑ Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 John Murray London 1926 Vol. 2 p.282
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