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School: St. Cronan's, Bray

Location:
Bray, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Patrick Mac Donnell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0912, Page 047

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    Where the present Dargan Street now stands there was a big cabbage field owned by a man named Gavin, who died in 1910.
    Bray Emmet's Gaelic football team won the County Dublin Senior Championship and also Leinster Championship and all-Ireland Championship 1901-2. They also won the Junior Championship and Minor League in the same year.
    At the railway arch beside the Bray golf links there was a two storied house owned by a water Balliff named Shakespeare employed by the Earl of Meath. He used to mind the Dargle River and the sand on the seashore.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sean Fox
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mr J. Roche
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    72
    Address
    Maitland Street, Co. Wicklow