sluice

Streetview. maps.app.goo.gl/SPaibQ75UYpfjYdb7 That cottage on the left is still there. Hard to see if those steps are still there. Amazing growth in foliage since.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons The 25" Osi map shows that sluice on a weir and a water course running to a mill which was to the right of the photograph.

O Mac Looking at the street view it is hard to believe that it is the same place!

Flickr is sometimes amazing! "the reek, seen from belclare" In 2015 via peter brennan

O Mac Map updated.

Could it be near Avoca and would that be the Avoca River? There are old mine workings there.

Robin Parkes It could. Fergus O'Connor took photos around Wicklow alright.

I think Robin Parkes is right, and here's the 25" map link.

Robin Parkes It is hard to tell from modern photos but I think that you are right Robin. There are a few on Flickr and this came up as well. I think that this is a close modern shot of the mines. www.visitwicklow.ie/attractions/avoca_mines.htm Well done!

Here is Jane Byrne, shopkeeper, 56, of Templehusk, Ovoca, Wicklow. Oddly, in 1911 she's 75, while her nephew Martin has mutated into her brother and lost 3 years!

Alluvial Gold Some rocks containing gold veins have been exposed on the surface and are eroding away. The gold that these rocks contained has been washed down into creeks to form alluvial (placer) gold deposits. Here, the gold is further concentrated by the action of water. Because gold is heavier than most of the material moved by a creek or river, it can become concentrated in hollows and trapped in the bed of the river. These are known as secondary (alluvial) gold deposits and they can be worked using a gold pan or cradle. Alluvial gold deposits sparked the Australian gold rushes of the 1850's Source: www.ga.gov.au/education/classroom-resources/minerals-ener...