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Bray Head (Irish: Ceann Bhré) is a 241 m (791 ft) hill and headland located in northern County Wicklow, Ireland, between the towns of Bray and Greystones. It forms part of the Wicklow Mountains and is a popular spot with hillwalkers. At the top of the head is a concrete cross which was placed there in 1950 during the holy year.
Bray is used as a base for walkers, and has a 1.5 km-long (1 mi) promenade which stretches from the harbour, with its colony of mute swans, to the base of Bray Head at the southern end. A track leads to the summit. Also used by walkers is the seven km (4 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi) Cliff Walk along Bray Head out to Greystones.
So I found my own "dupe" of the Hamptons about 100 miles away in New England: Madison, Connecticut. The town defines coastal calm, with just about everything the Hamptons has, minus the crowds.
Greystones (Irish: Na Clocha Liatha) is a coastal town and seaside resort in County Wicklow, Ireland.It lies on Ireland's east coast, 3.5 km (2.2 mi) south of Bray and 24 km (15 mi) south of Dublin city centre and has a population of 22,009, according to the 2022 census. [1]
Bray, County Wicklow. Bray Daly railway station; Bray Male School, former name of Saint Cronan's Boys' National School; Bray Head, a hill just south of Bray, Wicklow; Bray Head, Kerry, a hill on Valentia Island, County Kerry
Bray Tower is a signal tower located on Valentia Island in County Kerry, Ireland.The tower was built in 1805 by the British Board of Ordnance during the Napoleonic Wars.It was one of 81 signal towers built between 1804 and 1806 along the Irish coast to communicate naval activity in response to a possible French invasion.
Valentia was considered home to Mug Ruith, a powerful blind druid in Irish mythology. The O'Sullivans, headed by the O'Sullivan Beare, owned much of Valentia until the 17th century. [27] The naturalist Maude Jane Delap lived and worked in Knightstown, carrying out research into the marine life surrounding Valentia and identifying many new ...
A scotch egg from the Hind's Head, made with a quail's egg. The chef Heston Blumenthal, the owner of the nearby Fat Duck restaurant, purchased the Hind's Head in 2004. [3] Blumenthal used funds from his investment in the Riverside Brasserie, also in Bray. [6] He bought the premises to use the car parking and offices for his restaurant the Fat ...