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WICKLOW'S INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
Figure 4: County Wicklow in 2016
Early workings
As early as 2500BC it is believed that Bronze age mining for
copper was in hand around the Avoca area. Then about 1000AD
corn was being milled using a horizontal water mill in a valley in
Timore townland.
The principal activity was agriculture, mainly grazing, using
the Booley system described in the Brehon Laws. Cattle and
sheep were grazed in high pasture land during the summer
period, then the flocks and herds brought down to lower milder
pastures in the more severe winter months.
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