Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Bray

Bray, township and market town, in pars. of Bray (co. Wicklow) and Oldconnaught (co. Dublin), on river Bray, 13 miles SE. of Dublin by rail, 1070 ac., pop. 6535; 1 Bank, 1 newspaper. Market - days, Tuesday and Saturday. The chief part of the town is situated in co. Wicklow; the part within co. Dublin is called Little Bray. It is a fashionable watering-place and winter residence; the surrounding scenery being beautiful and attractive, and the climate bracing and salubrious.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and market town"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Dublin IrlC       Wicklow IrlC
Place: Bray

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