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Avoca Handweavers, now mostly known simply as Avoca, is a clothing manufacturing, retail and food business in Ireland. The company began in Avoca , County Wicklow , and is the oldest working woollen mill in Ireland and one of the world's oldest manufacturing companies.
He stopped working as a solicitor in 1974, when he and his wife purchased Avoca Handweavers, a County Wicklow business dating back to 1723. [5] By 2006, the company had eight stores in Ireland and one in the United States, and employed 475 people. [5]
Avoca (Irish: Abhóca, formerly Abhainn Mhór, meaning 'the great river') [2] is a small town near Arklow, in County Wicklow, Ireland.It is situated on the River Avoca.. The Avoca area has been associated with its copper mines for many years and the valley has been celebrated by Thomas Moore in the song "The Meeting of the Waters".
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Avoca Handweavers have one of their earliest outlets at the northern end of the village. This is situated on the site of Glencormac House which was completed in 1860 by the Jameson Whiskey family, who were originally from Scotland. The house became a hotel (Grade A, a precursor to five-star rated hotels) in the 1950s but was razed to the ground ...
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1.3 Ireland. 1.4 New Zealand. 1.5 South Africa. 1.6 United States. 2 Other uses. 3 See also. ... Avoca Handweavers, an Irish clothing manufacturing, retail and food ...