There was once a man who lived near Bray, Co. Wicklow. One night the fairies took away his one year old baby and left a sick baby in its place. A travelling tailor who was mending clothes was stopping in the house. One day when the wife was at the market of Bray the fairy child saw a fiddle hanging on the wall. The child got up out of the cradle and played a tune on the fiddle. The tailor heard it and he came from the room where he was mending the clothes. The child gave a cry and ran back to the cradle. When the woman came home from the market the tailor told her what had happened. She told her husband and the went to a hill near her home with a pitch fork bringing

Sixty or seventy years ago a stage car travelled between Roundwood and Bray the fare was one and sixpence they always met the trains

Back Road, Keady Road, Assan Road, Creighanroe Road, Carrickaslane Road, Monaghan Road, Dundalk Road, Carrick Road, Drumleek Road, Old Road, Tattyreagh Road, Cosy Bray.

There is a place not far from Snugboro called called the Soldier's Bray. It is called that name because when the Protestant soldiers were coming from the Ballinamuck the Catholics fought them on this bray.
It is a great big hill and when you stand on the top of it you can see the whole country around you.

We have a lot of fields at home. We have two brays one of them got the bray next the house and the other is the far bray. They got their names from the big hights in them. We have another called the field above the lane, because it is just beside the lane. We have another called the well-field, it got its name because there is a well in it. We have two back fields they are called that because they are at the back of the back of the house. We have two more, the big stone park and the wee stone park. I do not know how they got their names because because there not many stones on them. There are no hollows or any special bushes and not too many hills on our farm.

Names of Places
The names of the fields that are on my father's farm are:- the bray field, the gals field, the wee field in Trentagh-hill, the two back fields in Trentagh-hill, the two back gardens behind our house, the stripe below the house. The bray field is a sloped

The barley home was so called because barley grew in it long ago. Gortneagan Field was called after a hollow which is called Gortneagan. The Lee Field was so called because it was always in grass, and the Skull Hill was so called because there was a skull found in it during the Battle of Scarrifhollis.
The Buttermilk Bray is the name of a bray which is about fifty yards from our house. It was so called because a bucket of buttermilk was spilt on it.
The Slush Corner is the name of a corner in one of our fields. The Primrose Bank is the name of a bank on our farm. It is so called because there are thousands of primroses growing on it every year.
The Steep Bank is the name of another bray which

1: The kill field and the reason this field got it name, the are a lime kill in it2: The are another field near our house, the name of it is the upper bray, and the reason it got it name it is above the road3: The are another field called the lower bray, and the reason it got its name because it is below the road and the are a bray in it.4: The quarry hole field, and the reason it go its name, the are a place in the field where people used to quarry stones and the left a hole in it and for ever since it is called the quarry hole field.5: The heathery hill field, and the reason it got its name, because the are heather growing in it.

Townland - Lettergull.
PLant bed, Waistcoat, Dish, the Calfward, the ten acre, the Big Park, the Creggan, the Ram's hea, the Backbane, th Side hill, the Pad field, the far hill, the Middle hill, The Bruntland, the Racecourse, the Turnagael, the Long field, the Kilcock, the half-acre, the Black Bray, the Oak tree field, and the lower Bray.

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Hallgreen, Mullin, Paddy's Park, the Hill Upper Broad Bray, Lower Broad Bray, Kiln field, Barn field, Quarry field, Cross field

Inscription on monument near Bray Bridge.This Fountain is erected to
the memory of
Christopher Thompson M.D. F.R.C.S.I.
who died Dec 16th 1876in testimony of his worth.This Fountain was erected by the people of Bray, in memory of this doctor who attended the people during a fever called the cholera. It is situated very near Bray Bridge and has three steps up to it. One time water flowed from it, but it is not working now.

Long ago a certain chief of an now unknown tribe lived on the east coast of Ireland. Everyone in the tribe liked him very much as he was a just leader. One day they marched down the coast to where Bray is now. They kept close to the sea. The chief died in Bray. The tribe chose a little field in which to bury him. It was not far from the shore. Then they set about burying him. each one of the tribe brought all sorts of valuables: gold caskets, silver ornaments, gold armlets, horns, drinking cups, hair bands, hundreds of medals, coins and everything that would make a suitable offering.
The whole tribe assembled to bury their chief and tradition has it that they secured two stone chests and filled them with all the gold and treasures.

five o'clock noon a red light appeared on the deck, spreading, till at length three quarters of the deck appeared to be flaming, the watchers on the shore knew it must be on fire, so they manned three life-boats and went out to the ship. It was already a blazing mass, and some of the crew had jumped into the sea, all were rescued. The ship sank within an hour. It appeared that one of the boilers had burst and knocked the side out of a furnace, and caused the shocking conflagration. In Bray in 1879 a foul murder tookplace. The man who was murdered was a stranger. He was done to death with an iron bar. His head was so battered that his brains protruded. The person who killed him was not found although many were arrested on suspicion. His ghost is supposed to haunt the roads near where he was murdered; many people believe this others do not. Another man was killed on a motorbike on the Herbert road in Bray, and his ghost is supposed to ride down at sixty m.p.h. and crash into a wall and

She smokes a clay pipe.Another woman comes around, and she has a brown shawl, and tassels at the end of it, and there is fawn in the shawl also, and she sells flowers at five pence a bunch. She lives in Bray. One night when I was in a bus she asked us was it a Bray bus, and we said that it was not, and she would not get out. Then when it was going she wanted to get out, and the conductor would not let her, and they began to fight, and she fell on a boy, and she mad [sic] him cry. But I think she had a drop on her, and she got out at last.

late Parish Priest of Little Bray.
Father Healy was a man of great wit and humour, but he meet his match one day, when he stopped a man who was entering a public house in Bray. He said to the man. "Do you know that the devil accompanies you into a public house?" "Well," said the man "he can treat himself for I have only two-pence."
On another occasion he sent his employee to sell an old horse at a fair. The horse was sold for five pounds. A ballad singer who frequently visited fairs, saw the transaction, and warned the priest's employee to be careful of the five pound notes. He made roll the notes up in paper and gave him a safety pin to secure the inside pocket of his coat and wished him safe home. When he arrived home

Within the past few weeks there have passed, virtually unnoticed, two prominent landmarks in the town of Bray. I refer to the old castle in Castle - street (now demolished) and the Royal Hotel, at present undergoing alteration. The castle, dating back for several centuries, was built near the river ford as an outpost of the Pale, and for the purposes of repelling the inoursions of the O'Tooles and O'Byrnes who, issuing from their mountain fastnesses, made periodical raids on the English settlers in Dublin. The building also served as a barrack for the Royal Irish Constabulary when stationed in Bray for the first time in 1836. The Royal Hotel, known formerly as Quin's Hotel ( hence Quinsboro' Road) was one of the most famous hostelries outside Dublin.Here in days of yore, visitors who wished to enjoy the scenery of county Wicklow found accomodation and secured a mode of conveyance for the journey. The hotel won a well-merited approval from Thackerary

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.

Where the Bray Mens Institute is now there was a shop called the "London House" owned by a man called Dunne who used to sell everything in it.
Where the Public House is on the Dublin Road called the Coach and Horses owned by a man named Corry who sold it to Mr Mullens brother who has the Public House beside Lochners pork shop.
Where the present E.S.B. Station is at present there was a flour mill called "Southerns Mill" which manufactured flour for Bray at the time. It is from that the little river beside the Dargle River is called the Mill Race.

In the year 1935, the county Wicklow garage went a fire in main street Bray. The people belived that it was the cause of the petrol. There was a lot of damage done. A big stock of motorcars belong to private owners were burned to the ground. The fire lasted for serval hours, which the firebegrade had great difficulty getting it under control. The shop next to it was very near going afire also.
But the Bray firebegrade had to ring up the Dublin firebegrade when they saw it spreading.

In the year 1936 a great fire broke out in Mr Moran's premises Quinsboro Road Bray. The fire arose at an early hour of the morning. The alcohol assisted the fire to grow so big that it burned out the whole front of the building. The Fire Brigade could not put out the fire before it had done so much damage.
Mr Scragg's Garage went on fire some time ago, it was a huge fire the Garage was burned out of existence, the Bray Fire Brigade was first on the scene but could not succeed in exstinguishing the fire without help from the Dublin Fire Brigade. The Petrol gave the fire fighters less advantage, but after several hours they had it completely out. Mr Scragg suffered a big loss, as many of his cars and vehicles were destroyed, particularly his three fine scenery coaches.