The local roads are known as the Bray Roundwood road leading from Bray to Roundwood. There is another called the back road leading from Enniskerry to Roundwood also. There is another little lane called the Red lane leading down from the Bray Roundwood road to the Wicklow road which leads from Wicklow into Bray. The Church lane leads down from the Bray Roundwood road to Calary Church. Power's Avenue leads also from Bray Roundwood road up to the back road. The Bray Roundwood road was made about one hundred years. The back road was made about two hundred years ago. The Red lane was made about seventy years ago. Power's Avenue was made

its name because there used to be an old house in "Arties" hill gets its name because a man name Aties owned it and it was bought over off him. Patterson's rock get's its name because Willie John Pattersons used to own it. There are also names because Mc Cauley was murdered on it. Pattersons Bray in Drumhoney gets its name because Pattersons live at the head of it, "Blosties Bray" in Tullythristney gets its name because the man that lived on the Bray was a terrible liar

Ballyshannon near Mr. Mc Gonigle’s house there is a bray called Braughan Bray. It got this name because that road was repaired after the famine to give employment to the people. There was a great tank of braughan on this bray and each man got a can-full.

In olden times when the meal was scarce when people were only allowed to get one pound of meal at a time, they used all gather to the one house and make a supper of bracan. There was a bray at the house and after that the bray got its name, the bracan bray, and the ruins of the old house are still to be seen.

I got this story from John Bradley, Balleigham. He is about 50 years of age. He works on a farm. This happening happened about 80 years ago. One time a man went down a "secrent" bray in Shrove. When he went down the bray he never was seen again. no body ever saw him after that. It is called Murderhole bray since that

CASTLE OF
LITTLE BRAYOld Landmark
Demolished
Visitors to Bray, Co. Wicklow, by the road from Dublin, will miss an old landmark - the Castle of Little Bray. It was condemned after a sworn inquiry, and has been demolished under a compulsory clearance scheme.
There has been a conflict amongst historians concerning the castle. Some contend that it was built by Sir Walter de Ridelesford to defend the ford over the River Dargle, to the north of it, against the Wicklow chieftains, the O'Tooles and the O'Byrnes. He came with Strongbow of the Normans, and was guiven a grant of the lands of Ui Bruin Cualann.
The Rev. Chancellor G. Digby Scott, M.A., of Bray, in his history of the township, maintains that the castle was probably built in the fifteenth, or the beginning of the sixteenth, century. It was in ruins, he says, in the middle of the seventeenth century, and Cromwell was under no necessity to knock it to pieces.
The brick battlements, he points out, were quite modern, but the wall beneath them, with the projecting dripstone ledge and the loophole in the south-east angle, and the small square window in the west wall were probably ancient enough. The small carved head that projected from the east wall near the loophole (probably a portrait) was a peculiar feature of one of these very undecorated Irish castles, but had a parallel in Bullock Castle, Dalkey.
In support of his contention, Chancellor Scott fixes the exact position of the castle of de Ridelesford south of the Dargle river and in Great Bray. This was determined, he said, by a deed of partition of Great Bray between
THE CASTLE
OF
LITTLE
BRAY
Edward, Earl of Meath, and Oliver, Earl of Tyrconnell, ancestor of the present Earl of Pembroke, dated 1666. Also by two maps in the Pembroke Estate Office, dated 1692 and 1762. In one of the maps of the Down Survey of 1657, the castles of Old Bray, Little Bray and Old Court were marked, each in its proper place.
The demolition of the castle severs a link with the invaders of Ireland.

BRAY ON THE DARGLE FLOWING
OUT TO THE SEA
_______________Air:The Mountains of Mourne
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Oh, Ducky, this Bray town would make your head light
Seeing nothing but Road Hogs from morning till night,
On Quinsboro' road or along the main street
They're the bane of all speed cops upon the Bray beat.
When outside the town they do eighty I'm told,
Which makes the hot blood of Jay-
walkers run cold,
They don't think but they're sure there's a daily T.T.
Around Bray on the Dargle flowing out to the sea.A short time ago we were all much depressed
By the way a young "Garbo" in Bray here was dressed.
She hardly was bound for a talkie or ball -
Just returning home from the briny - that was all.
Perhaps she'd a cocktail before her sea bath,
Maybe two, maybe three, 'tis as likely as not.
Now we fumed and said, " Scram, Miss, you can't make Wembley
Out of our Bray on the Dargle flowing out to the sea."In Dublin the latest's a double deck 'bus,
Good Lord! please do keep such contraptions from us;
If they come - though of noise we have now got the best -
In "Morpheus Arms" no more we'll find rest.
If the "Realm Divine" should abscond from our shore,
O'er same and o'er Yoddling we'll ne'er again snore,
With "Barardogs" and Hansoms once happy were we
In Bray on the Dargle flowing out to the sea.You've heard of the "Vicar of Bray,' Dear, of course;
Well, he thinks that the times here have changed for the worse;
As we talked here today near the "Swanky" band stand
We'd half "Monto Carlo" from Bray Head on hand.
He told me that Swash-buckling days are now gone,
With Crooning and Jazzing from sunset to dawn
He sighs for the Stuarts and his Bonnie Charlie
In Bray on the Dargle flowing out to the sea.As regards to the food here, the spirits and wine
We have got all the yokes Mrs. Beeton thought fine,
From Pice-de-Reistence, with trifle and crame,
To "A La-carte Luncheons," a six-course that same.
As regards the spirits we don't such, here, sip,
For the law if you're "nabbed" is severe on the hip;
The best liquor of all is the "sweet cup of tea"
In Bray on the Dargle flowing out to the sea."The Cavan Cadet," author of "The Hollow Below," "One of the Anty quare-ones," "London on Thames a Funny 'Ol Shop," etc., etc.
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In the town of Bray there were six forges, but now there are only three. Smiths, Devetts and Furlongs. Devetts and Furlongs are in big Bray and Smiths is in little Bray.
These forges has been closed down owning to the increase of the moters. The horses has not been required. They have become to slow with their work now and I belive in a few years time there will not be one forge left in the town of Bray because when there is no work for the horses there will be no work for the forges.

In the townland of Letterilly their is a hill which they call Boyle's Bray. The way that this bray got its name was by a man the name of Charles Boyle who lived in it and ever afterwards the people named it Boyle's Bray.
Their is another place Convenient to where I live and it is called Cruacnamain. It was called this name because there was two men drowned in it and there was another man burned in it, and afterwards the people that lived in it called it Cruacnamain.

A giant and his wife were climbing the side of Barnaribbon Bray on Benbulben one day, they had a quarrel and she fled from him. He took up a stone weighing about seven tons and fired it from Barnaribbon Bray to the sea field in Lissadell at her a distance of five miles. The stone is still to be seen there yet.

In olden times there were a number of hedge schools in this district. There was one at the top of Peararin's Bray in the townland of Carrickarcher, Aughavas, Owen Heslin taught in this school for a number of years and his brother Peadarin's also taught there for a period. That was how Peaderin's Bray got its name Owen taught for five years. He worked hard and made good scholars.

About sixty years ago, there lived in Bray a tall broadshouldered man whom the locals called "Big Mick". There were no mowing machines in those days so Mick brought his scythes to Bray to be set, as it was his custom to cut half an acre of hay before breakfast every morning.

In 1896 the old castle in Little Bray was occupied by a nailer named Cahill. He made all kinds of boot-nails and timber nails for Bray at the time.

In the year about 1928 late on a winter's evening. A small schooner in distress some distance outside Bray Harbour. The warning was given by a light from the schooner which was sighted from Bray. Seeing the schooner was in trouble they immediately summoned help and got the schooner to the harbour and the crew taken off safely. No lives were lost.

Names of the local places in this district are
The Ice House Bray The ice house bray is so called because there was an ice house in under the bray, were ice used to be preserved there long ago, to make ice drinks and to preserve meat and fish, the ice house still remains.
The Battle of Axes. The battle of axes is so called because on the an ice house bray a battle was faught, and it was faught with battle axes, and any one passing by could see their imitations on the Farnham Grand Gates.
The Deer Park. The deer park is in Farnham demense, it is so called because deer used to be reared in it, they were very tame. At one time their flesh used to be sold to be sold to the people and it was venison.
The Ladies Walk The ladies walk is so called because no-body would be allowed to walk on it but the Farnham Ladies and their visitors

crated to God's service. Dr. Glynn was dragged through the streets and inhumanly butchered. The Archbishop had to flee to England for safety. Dr. Everard stood at the helm during the long night of this fiendish storm, which threatened to engulf the Cathlocity of France He directed and stimulated the clergy and people of his charge, until sacrilegious were left upon him. His escape was miraculous. He fled to London.
On the advice of his friend and admirer, Edmund Parke, the price of Irish orators, he opened a school for the sons of the Catholic nobility in Ulverston, in the Lake country of England.
He was soon chosen Presitent of Maynooth Coolege and after two years, was appointed Coadjuster to Dr. Bray, the Archbishop of Cashel. On the death of Dr Bray, he succeeded to the Archbishophric of Cashel But three months after the death of Dr. Bray, the new Archbishop was called to the reward of his many labours for Church and Fatherland. He was interred in Cashel of the Kings, a fitting resting

the market, his rent from the Burghers and his profits from the mill and in return for these his possessions he rendered service to the king in war. Under shelter of the castle the miller ground his corn, the baker heated his oven and the fisherman landed his nets. Sir Walter was busy fighting the O'Tooles and the O'Byrnes and driven back to the Wicklow mountains they vowed revenge. It took three hundred years to win victory. Bray Castle was wrecked and repaired a hundred times. From this lonely outpost the Dublin men would start on a march southwards but rarely returned. In 1316 Bruce passed that way and sent the Castle skywards in flames. The people fled and for many years the land around lay untilled and desolate. In 1,349 the Abbot of St. Mary's tried to do his duty by providing two horses and six horsemen to aid in defending Bray Castle. In 1377 rewards were given to Roger Power of Shankill and his son John for the great losses sustained in defending the castle. In 1402 the Lord Mayor of Dublin met the Irish Wicklow clans near Bray

The local fairs are held in Roundwood and Newtown and also in Bray. Bray is not really in our district but the folk of this district bring their animals to sell them. The fairs are always held in towns or villages.
Sometimes men call in on their way from the fair and buy an animal from you, that is if you were not at the fair. There used to be a fair in Enniskerry, it is supposed to have been stopped because it is near to Bray.
There is a place called the fair green, where the fair takes place every month. Sometimes people sell their animals in the street on their way to the fair green. As you are going into the field you pay one shilling for each cow to a man at the gate. When an animal

On our farm every field has got a name such as the lone bush field, the upper field, the wee field next Kellys and Carols rocks. Frank Finigan has got a field called McGuanck's field, and a hill called the saddle hill in the townland Sheetrim.
Here are the names of other places in Sheetrim the minsters fields which belong to Tom Duffy now. The Hill of the Giants grave, the cuckoo well field, and the middle hill belong to my uncle Barney Connoly.
Macmahon's turn, Henny's bray Conlon's bray, Fingigans bray and Hodge's cross are on the Ballytrain road. In the townland of Oghal there is a field called the Carnagh and in Annaglaive a field called the Guigan. Here is a list of various place name in various town-lands; Fords stripe Molly Pats

1894 to 1904 Most Rev Nicholas Donnelly D D. Bishop Assistant Dean of Dublin, died PP St Mary's, Haddington Rd, Dublin 1920.1904 Very Rev Timothy (Archdeacon) Goran P.P.V.F.Parish priests of Bray.1912 Very Rev Richard Colahan P.P.V.F.The above list, with Pastors, and Parish priests, rom 1620 to 1912.
The Parish priests of Kilmacanogue and Greystones, and of Bray.
Bray Bridge.
James Harold, David Edge.
Bridge Bungalow builder 1856.
Bray inscription on
Bray Bridge,on
the main Road
to Dublin.