#Ireland has only ever had one gold rush

General: Most of Ireland’s gold was sourced in sites most likely to have been recognised and exploited by prehistoric people collecting alluvial deposits from rivers and streams

September 1795: At Croghan Kinsella mountain a school headmaster accidently stumbles upon a loot of gold

One month later: The unregulated period of gold collection ended with a military takeover exactly one month later, on 15 October 1795. i.e. The British came in and stole it (shocker). Something i do like about the British intervention is they called the Croghan Mountain, Little Peru, which I’m assuming has got to do with the fact most of Britains gold came Spain‘s conequest of Latin America.

During the month as much as 80 kilograms of gold was recovered by prospectors.

The Woodenbridge Hotel & Lodge, Arklow was established in 1608 and here Future Taoiseach and President Éamon de Valera and Sinéad de Valera stayed at the hotel on their honeymoon in 1910

The restaurant at the hotel is named the Goldmines Bistro after the Goldmines River of the gold rush

Furthermore the story is captured in works like Peadar McArdle's Gold Frenzy. It is a vivid chapter of Irish history, blending greed, hope, and the elusive promise of riches in the Wicklow Hills.