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| TOWN OF BRAY, COUNTY WICKLOW. -This old burgh, which may be called the gateway between the counties of Dublin and Wicklow, takes its name, according to Professor Joyce, M. R. I. A., from the Gaelic word Bri (bree) a hill, kindred to the Scotch word "brae," and so named from the lofty promontory, or "head," which rises over the sea in its neighborhood. In times long past, Bray witnessed many a fierce conflict between the O'Byrnes of Glenmalure and Glandalough and the English of the Pale, who sought vainly, for centuries, to dispossess them of their mountain fastnesses. |
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