ARKLOW  , a seaport and

market town of Co . Wicklow, Ireland, in the east parliamentary division, 49 M . S. of Dublin, by the Dublin .& South-Eastern railway . Pop . (1901) 4944• Sea-fisheries are prosecuted, and there are oyster-beds on the coast, but the produce requires to be freed from a peculiar flavour by the purer waters of the Welsh and English coast before it is fit for food . The produce of the copper and lead mines of the Vale of Avoca is shipped from the port . There are cordite and explosives works, established by Messrs Kynoch of Birmingham, England . In 1882 an act was passed providing for the improvement of the harbour and for the appointment of harbour commissioners . The town hall and the Protestant church (1899) were gifts of the earl of Carysfort, in whose property the town is situated . There are slight ruins of an ancient castle of the Ormondes, demolished in 1649 by Cromwell . On the 9th of June 1798 the Irish insurgents, attacking the town, were defeated by the royal troops near Arklow Bridge, and their leader, Father Michael Murphy, was killed .