100 Years of Bray and its Neighbourhood,
from 1770 to 1870

By "An old inhabitant" 80 pages, originally published in 1907 at Dublin, Ireland.

This scarce and entertaining local history gives us a view of the occurances in this town in County Wicklow (close on to the border with County Dublin) during a turbulent and complex century. The narrative covers both the major political events and characters, and the everyday social details such as fashions and modes of travel. A great number of people are named in this work, the greater proportion of them being the gentry but some farmers and working class people are included. Important primarily for the perspective it gives on life in Bray over a century ago, this little work will entertain as well as inform.

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Title Page, Dedication and Sources
0001 Bray 1770, military barracks, church, mill
0002 Loughlinstown or Shanganagh and coach service; wages; literacy
0003 Literacy; hedge schools; fairs
0004 Faction fights; dueling; outbreak of 1798 rebellion
0005 Hume killed; Wicklow mountains; origins of fire on the mountain, run boys run
0006 Joseph Hold saved from hanging; FitzGerald, Emmet and Curran
0007 Michael Dwyers conviction and death; Grattan, Neilson, Hughes and Blackwood; Mrs. Grattan
0008 Moores comments to Grattan; Edward Crosbie and the rebellion
0009 Crosbies son defends his name; trial of the Sheares brothers
0010 Sheares executed despite reprieve; William Plunket
0011 Henry Grattans connection with Bray
0012 Grattans Parliament; his residence at Wingfield
0013 Gentry in the area, Grattan, Lord Powerscourt, Langrishe, Walker, Cockburn, Day, Barrington
0014 Hercules Langrishe; John Monck Mason
0015 Mason continued; George Rawson; Francis Hutchinson
0016 Grattan speaking in Parliament January 1800
0017 Grattans later years and religious views
0018 Grattan in the Imperial Parliament in 1805
0019 Grattans illness 1819-1820
0020 Grattans illness April-May 1820
0021 Grattans last days
0022 Grattans death; Grattan and Flood
0023 Grattans duel with Isaac Corry; poem by Corry
0024 Tributes to Grattan by Mackintosh, Wilberforce and Smith; conclusion of Corrys poem
0025 Grattan remembers Mat Walshe and Anne Malone
0026 Plunkets views on Catholic emancipation
0027 Plunket sues Cobbett over allegations regarding Emmet; Plunkets oratory ability
0028 Plunkets stammer, purchase of Connaught House, and friendship with Grattan
0029 Plunkets tribute to Grattan; Plunket and William Magee
0030 Plunket and William Magee concluded; Plunket and Burrowes, and Bushe; Plunkets family
0031 Plunkets nepotism
0032 Plunkets career and retirement
0033 More on Plunkets forced retirement
0034 Plunket and Sir Walter Scott; Plunkets death
0035 Description of Bray in 1800; Quins Hotel
0036 More on Quins Hotel; old houses and buildings in Bray
0037 Homes belonging to Seymour, Dabine, Neame, Brady, Putland; Lord Meaths purchases in 1818
0038 Property of Edwards, and Weldon; more on Putland family
0039 The Lords Meath; homes of Crosbie, Brush, Keating and Kettlewell; the Castle and Bridge at Bray
0040 Bloody Bank (now Sunny Bank); Isaac Weld at Ravenswell
0041 Mrs. Weld; Dease family at Ravenswell; Bray commons; Wray at Bray Lodge
0042 Sothern of Bray Mill; 1811 dispensary, its roster for 1815
0043 Subscribers of the dispensary 1837
0044 Doctors of the Enniskerry Dispensary; travel by coach and omnibus
0045 Gentlemen with homes in Dublin and Bray
0046 Cork Abbey residents, Wingfield and Jones; Hutchinson at Palermo
0047 Charity and employment for the poor
0048 Schools; first Christmas tree in Bray ca. 1854; Hutchinson, Roberts, Riall and Morrison properties
0049 The cemetery at Old Connaught; Westby, Leigh, Arthur, Domvile, Curtis and Farrell at Thornhill
0050 Hodson, Clarke and Plunket at Moatfield House; Jubilee Hall
0051 Ballyman/Knocklinn House; Fassaroe and Vallombrosa; Bouchier, Hodson and Ribton at Woodbrook
0052 The authors memorabilia; Cockburn at Shanganagh
0053 Stamer at Beauchamp; Clarke and Quin at Claremont; Magan at Woodlawn
0054 Cahill and White at Crinken; Harvey and Martley at Sherrington; Walker and Crampton at St. Valerie
0055 More on Crampton and St. Valerie; Barrington at Fassaroe
0056 Mrs. Tighes poems; Barrington at Glendruid; DArcy in Kilcroney; Henry Monck Mason
0057 Mason in Dargle Cottage
0058 National Board of Education; Viscounts Powerscourt
0059 Enniskerry roses; Powerscourt farmers: Buckley, Burton; Charleville
0060 Barons Monck; Bushy; more farmers: Williams, Keegan, Hicks, Walker, Quigley
0061 John Crampton; Philip Crampton
0062 Barracks at Glencree; Hodson at Hollybrooke; Burkes and Robin Adair at Glencormick
0063 Charles Domvile and evictions at Shankill in 1860s; Tillystown; sporting and entertainment
0064 Housekeeping; reading aloud
0065 More on reading; fashionable dinner and dinner-parties; education
0066 Population figures; Protestant churches and rectors
0067 More on rectors at Bray
0068 More on rectors at Bray and parish boundary changes
0069 Catholic churches, curates and priests at Bray
0070 More on Catholic priests; Protestant church at Powerscourt and its Rectors and Curates
0071 Rectors of Kilbride; Rectors of Delgany
0072 Church of Rathmichael; Presbyterian meeting-house at Bray; Quakers at Bray
0073 Railroad and station at Bray 1854; new hotels; new houses
0074 Dargans Turkish Baths; merchants and shops
0075 Tailors, car drivers, packmen and clockmaker
0076 Fishmongers, suger and fruit sellers, blacksmiths; summer lodgings
0077 Bray Philharmonic Society; Father Healy and his dinner parties
0078 Father Healy continued; Vartry water 1870; bazaar 1864
0079 Bazaar 1864 continued; local Irish names and meanings
0080 Local Irish names and meanings concluded