Guide to the County of Wicklow by R.N. Wright 1827

This travel guide was intended for visitors of the county who wished to follow a serpentine route from Dublin to Arklow, back north to Enniskerry and south again to Baltinglass. It provides a descriptions of the towns, landscape, people and culture of Wicklow twenty years after the 1798 rebellion and twenty years before the calamity of the Great Irish Potato Famine.

Fraser, Robert. General view of the agriculture and mineralogy of the County Wicklow 1801.

Published in 1801, it concerns itself principally with agricultural and mining activity in the region. It also covers a diverse range of other general subjects such as population, towns and villages, navigation and transport, education, manufacturing and the welfare of the common people. The work gives a revealing insight into County Wicklow society at the turn of the 19th century immediately in the wake of the 1798 rebellion.

The Irish Tourist Association Topographical and General Survey

1940’s Irish Tourist Association (ITA) survey of County Wicklow.