The Little Book of Bray and Enniskerry (eBook)

Brian White (Autor)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
224 Seiten
THP Ireland (Verlag)
978-0-7509-6934-5 (ISBN)

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The Little Book of Bray & Enniskerry is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts. Here you will find out about Bray and Enniskerry's history, their famous faces, their buildings and streets, their sporting heritage and their myths and legends. Through main thoroughfares and twisting back streets, this book takes the reader on a journey through the area's past. A reliable reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped into time and time again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage and the secrets of these ancient settlements.

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GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY

The development of Bray was overseen by Lord Meath, and the development of Enniskerry was carefully planned by Lord Powerscourt. Both lords were granted their properties in the 1600s.

The coming of the railway to Bray in 1854 divides the old era from the modern era of the town. Prior to 1854, Bray was only a small fishing village. It was granted township status in 1866, and following the Public Health Act of 1875 the death rate fell and the town became one of the healthiest towns in Ireland. Victorians were encouraged to leave the city smog and take the sea breezes at Blackrock, Kingstown and Bray. The town council provided musical events on the Esplanade and the railway company provided bathing boxes. The hotels and boarding houses offered mainly Scottish, Welsh, English and Northern Irish visitors ‘A Céad Mile Fáilte’ (‘100,000 welcomes’). Each grouping had set weeks that they came, from May to the end of August. The population of the town doubled during the summer months. Bray soon won the title of the ‘Irish Brighton’. Commerce was driven by the railway, with many shops refunding railway fare if a patron spent more than £2.

Aside from tourism, the printing trade was the mainstay of the town until the Solus Teo lamp factory was opened in 1935. The next wave of development came in the 1950s, with the opening of Industrial Yarns and Ardmore Studio. The town prospered between the end of the Second World War and the mid-1960s when the British tourists started taking charter flights to the Spanish resorts.

Bray fortunes declined and it eventually became a commuter hub for Dublin. In 1984 the railway line between Dublin and Bray was electrified and the service is now called the DART (Dublin Area Rapid Transport).

BRAY

Bray is a coastal town 20km south of Dublin. It is the largest town in County Wicklow. The town of Bray is the ninth largest urban area in Ireland, with a population of 31,872 as per the 2011 census. The area has four limits:

(1) Bray Civil Parish

(2) The Bray Township area

(3) The Municipal District

(4) Bray Postal Area

The Bray Civil Parish is an area in the centre of the town covering 425 acres.

The chief inhabitants of Bray, using the Town Improvements (Ireland) Act of 1854, incorporated themselves into a governing body on 9 October 1857. Bray was granted township status on 23 July 1866 and included the following townlands: Bray Civil Parish, Little Bray, Ravenswell, Killarney, Kilbride, Oldcourt, Ballwaltrim, Springfield, Ballymorris, Newcourt and part of Old Connaught.

Bray Municipal District was incorporated in 2014 and comprises all the townlands in Bray Township, Enniskerry, Kilmacanogue and Powerscourt.

The Bray Postal area begins one mile south of Shankill County Dublin and extends southwards to Glendalough. The West boundary is Kippure Mountain and the border to the east is the Irish Sea. Towns included are Bray, Enniskerry, Roundwood, Laragh, Kilcoole, Greystones and Newtownmountkennedy.

ENNISKERRY

Enniskerry is a townland in the Parish of Powerscourt. The village of Enniskerry is made up of three townlands: Cookstown, Knocksink, and the townland of Enniskerry. Both Bray and Enniskerry are in the half-barony of Rathdown.

The whole of Enniskerry has developed under the guidance of the Wingfield family, and the area has remained an agricultural area mainly consisting of small farm holdings. Forestry has long played a vital role in the Glencree Valley.

POWERSCOURT TOWNLANDS

The spelling of the Powerscourt townlands has changed over the past 400 years. Mervyn Wingfield, the 7th Lord Powerscourt, listed the changes in 1903 in his book, A Description of Powerscourt.

Old Name

Modern Name

Beanaghbegg (Little Beanagh) Beanaghmore (Great Beanagh)

Bahana

Oenagh or Ownagh

Onagh

Kiltagaran

Kilgarron

Cookeston

Cookstown

Annacrew or Ballycale or Aghnacrevy

Annacrevy

Ballycortell or Cortellstown

Curtlestown

Barnemoyre or Barnameare

Barnamire

Ballybrowe

Ballybrew

Killeger

Killegar

Classganny

Glaskenny

Manister

Monastry

Lackindarragh

Lackandarragh

Bolreagh

Ballyreagh

La Croine or Croane

Crone

Ballynegeeogh

Ballinagee

Ballinacahill

Ballycoyle

The Park

Deerpark or The Paddock

Aghnaggare

Aurora

Corbollyes

Old Boleys

Glancree or Glencry

Glencree

Ballynornan or Ballyornane

Ballyornan

BRAY TIMELINE

Year

Event

1173	Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, granted Bray Manor to Walter de Riddlesford.

1225	‘The Song of Dermot and the Earl’, lines 3092-3095, makes reference to Bray and County Wicklow.

1335	Goffery Cramp was given lands at the Manor of Oldcourt, Bray, County Wicklow.

1402	John Drake, Mayor of Dublin, led British forces in a skirmish against the Wicklow clans at Sunnybank, Bray, known as the Battle of Bloody Bank.

1428	The Viceroy mustered a force of Dublin men at Bray, and led an attack on the O’Byrne Clan.

1535	Fassaroe Castle near Bray was built for Sir William Brabazon, Vice Treasurer and General Receiver of Ireland.

1609	St Paul’s church, Bray, built.

1618	Killruddery Estate, Bray, was granted to Sir William Brabazon.

1657	Work began on the first Bray Bridge over the Dargle River.

1659	Population of Bray reaches 300.

1666	The first Bray Bridge completed.

1666	The lands at Oldcourt, Bray, are granted to the Edwards family.

1666	Earliest record of births in Church of Ireland parish of Bray.

1666	Earliest record of marriage in Church of Ireland parish of Bray.

1666	Earliest record of deaths in Church of Ireland parish of Bray.

1692	Bray barracks are built.

1741	Bray Bridge was carried away in a storm.

1762	Bray Town Pound House was erected near the site of the present Town Hall.

1770	St Paul’s church was extended and repaired.

1776	Qunis Coaching Inn (now Royal Hotel) was established in Bray.

1804	Three Martello Towers were built in Bray (1) Southern end of Bray Prom (2) near the Harbour (3) Corke Abbey. Each cost £1,800.

1813	Sir Philip Crampton was granted Lough Bray by Lord Powescourt.

1818	The Earl of Meath purchased the Baracks of Bray for a Fever Hospital for £100.

1821	The population of Bray stands at 2,029, or 1.8 per cent of county population.

1831	The population of Bray stands at 3,758 or 3.09 per cent of county population.

1833	An outbreak of cholera in Bray kills twenty-five people.

1834	The Conservatory was erected by the Putland family at San Souci (now Loreto Convent, Bray).

1837	A police station was built for the RIC near the Royal Hotel, Bray.

1841	The population of Bray...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.9.2016
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
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• ISBN-10: 0-7509-6934-2 / 0750969342
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-6934-5 / 9780750969345