Scoil: St. Cronan's, Bray
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- Múinteoir: Patrick Mac Donnell
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- (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)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.
