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Roundwood, historically known as Tóchar , is a village in County Wicklow, Ireland. It was listed as having a population of 833 in the 2011 census.
It is located where the R755 road joins the R764 and R765. The R755 is part of the main route from Dublin to Glendalough in the Wicklow Mountains. At 238 metres above sea level, Roundwood is one of the highest villages in Ireland.
Roundwood has a close association with two former Presidents of Ireland, Seán T. O'Kelly who lived locally and Erskine Childers who is buried in the Church of Ireland Derralossary churchyard near the village.
Vartry Reservoir Lakes (reservoirs built in the 1860s) are close by.
Usage examples of "roundwood".
The wall ran for two hundred yards along a small back road that connected in a semi-circle with the main Roundwood to Killiskey road.
It was Dempsey who made the first call to the Roundwood Garda station on his mobile phone and who also had the wit to immediately contact Garda headquarters and arrange for an all out alert for the kidnappers.
There was a map of North Wicklow with Roundwood arrowed, aerial shots of Beechill and more on the Garda presence.
The houses around Roundwood were visited and the householders questioned about suspicious sightings or unusual queries by strangers about directions around the area.
The caravan park in Roundwood was searched and the owner quizzed about recent lettings.
ABOUT THE TIME Ashman and Joseph were sitting in the spring sunshine of Roundwood Park, Cunningham was slouching like a sleepy cat through the same sunshine in Battersea Park.