Wicklow — The Garden of Ireland

Wicklow takes its name from Cill Mhantáin, ‘church of the toothless one’, after a saint scorned by locals for a broken smile — the last of Ireland’s counties to be formally shired, in 1606.

This is Glendalough, the monastic city St Kevin built in a valley of two lakes in the sixth century, and the Wicklow Mountains that sheltered rebels like Michael Dwyer for years after 1798 had ended everywhere else.