Humanity has left many records of their activities here ranging from a late stone age wedge tomb c. 2500–2000 BC. to 19th century stone houses.  Of these, four are regarded as National Monuments and have been taken into the care of the state.

  • Labbansighe

    Labbansighe or The Moylisha Wedge Tomb was constructed around 1100 - 1000 BC, contemporary with occupation of Rathgall Hillfort, that is earlier than either Stonehenge or the pyramids. Wedge tombs are large stone boxes with a sloping roof slab dating from the late stone age / early bronze age, it is situated on the northern slopes of Moylisha Hill and overlooks the entire area.

  • Aghowle Church & Cross

    This church and an associated monastery was founded by St Finnian of Clonard in the early 500s AD and has continued as a site of worship and veneration to this day.

  • Rathgall Hillfort

    Rathgall or the Ring of the Rath was clearly a site of major importance during the Bronze Age. It is a large hill fort consisting of three roughly concentric stone walls dating from the Bronze Age (1200-900 BC) with a later masonry wall dating from the Medieval period at its centre.

  • Egan's Bar

    Located about 1 mile from the point where counties Wicklow, Wexford and Carlow meet, beside the bridge over the River Grainne. Egan’s Bar is one of the oldest family run pubs in the country and is a centre for traditional music and storytelling.

  • Stookeen Cairn

    This marks the highest point of Aghowle Hill. Stookeen or Stuacin means 'little pinnacle.' Like many summits of Irish hills and mountains, this is adorned with a prehistoric burial cairn, a common religious practice in the Bronze Age (2400 BC - 600 BC).

  • Hughes' Gate

    Hughes’ Gate was thought to be the gate entrance to Moylisha tomb.

  • Aghowle & Moyacomb

    Aghowle in Irish is “Achadh Abhall” which translates as “The Field of Apple Trees”. In the early 19th century these civil parishes had over 430 people living there just before the years of famine and emigration. All that now remains in the beautiful and quiet townland of Aghowle is crumbling stone ruins and briar smothered lanes.

  • Munny Motte

    This twelfth century Norman earthwork is situated in "The Mote Field" in Munny Upper. Mottes are associated with the early phases of Anglo-Norman inhabitation of Ireland (1170-1220). Mottes are defensive structures along a harsh and unknown frontier, built in the days when Norman advance took preference over long term settlement.

  • The Glass Factory

    Located at Moylisha, the Glass Factory made use of the nearby sandpits and plentiful oak, which is the only native wood which burns hot enough to make glass. This ’forest glass house’ may have been developed in association with the nearby monastic settlement of Aghowle, founded by St. Finnian.

  • 1798 Rebellion

    The 1798 Rebellion was very extreme in this area. The Church of Ireland community feared the Catholic majority and dreaded the thought that they would rise up again in rebellion. As a result Coolkenno was to see the first Orange Lodge in County Wicklow established by Captain Abraham Nickson and Rev. James Magee.

  • The Tobacco House

    The tobacco industry was started in various locations in Ireland in the 1830’s as a cash crop to augment the meagre income of local farmers due to failing harvests. In the Tobacco House the tobacco grown in adjacent fields was hung to dry.