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Bray Cualann Historical Society Programme
** Meetings on the 3rd Thursday of the Month take place in the Bray Chamber of Commerce House, 10 Quinsboro Road, Bray at 8pm.** Friday 19th December 2014: Bray 100 years ago, by James Scannell, Bray Public Library, Eglinton Road, Bray at 11:30 am. **Thursday 15th January 2015: Bray Cualann Historical Society – The AGM followed by 2 Talks. Poolbeg to Arklow the Dublin and Wicklow Coastline, Some unique views of Bray. 100 Years the His...
Clann Magazine
The Irish Family History Foundation’s genealogy magazine can be downloaded at: https://flipflashpages.uniflip.com/3/71043/345958/pub/ Articles included in this issue Details of new records added to www.rootsireland.ie - the database of Irish church and other records – including records of County Carlow, County Wexford and County Waterford Records of the Ulster Historical Foundation New Irish historical publications Tracing your Kildare ancestors...
Woodland Wildlife Walk at NWT Blessington
Would you like to learn a little bit more about the wildlife found in the woodlands of Ireland? If so then come along to the Native Woodland Trust nature walk on 15th February at the NWT Blessington Reserve. The Native Woodland Trust is an environmental charity dedicated to the protection of Ireland’s rare native and ancient woodland. The Trust achieves this by setting up woodland reserves around the country, such as the Blessington reserve. This...
Arklow School's PURE Music
Creating environmental awareness through music is the aim of the latest initiative from PURE. The project gives the students of Wicklow a chance to raise awareness about their local environment while also showcasing and developing their musical talents. Pure Music Environmental Training Programme is a two day environmental/music training programme for teenagers (13 to 18 years old) who are involved in a music class, play a musical instrument, in ...
Two Holy Wells of Wicklow
Co.Wicklow has approx 120 Holy Wells.Many of them are protected and looked after by individuals where the tradition has been passed on in the family for a number of generations.Others are in danger of forever being lost from memory as the older people are the only ones who have the information needed to preserve the traditions and locations of the wells. This short article will give an example of a well preserved Holy Well where the owners of the...
Traditions Regarding the Feast of St. Brigid in Co. Wicklow
(published in The Wicklow Times, Tuesday 27th of January 2015) In Irish folk tradition, the calendar is principally split into ‘Quarter Days’, so called as they divide the year into each of its four seasons of summer (May Day / Bealtaine), autumn (Lammas / Lúnasa), winter (Halloween / Samhain) and, of course, spring (St. Brigid’s Day / Imbolc), which falls on the 1st of February. St. Brigid’s Day is dedicated to the saint nicknamed Muire na nGael...
Holy Wells of Co.Wicklow
Hi My name is Rosaleen Durkin and I live in Glendalough. For the past two years I have been researching and documenting the traditions locations and condition of the Holy Wells of Co.Wicklow.There are approx 120 in the county.I would be very interested in any stories anyone may have to assist with this or locations of any wells in Wicklow I may not have found already as I hope to publish a book when all the research is completed.This will include...
Kilmacanogue History Society - February 2015 meeting
KILMACANOGUE HISTORY SOCIETY Glenview Hotel – 3rd February 2015 Interpreting the physical landscape of Wicklow William P. Warren The physical landscape of Wicklow has enthralled our speaker since he was very young. In this talk, focusing largely on the mountains and on eastern Wicklow, he will illustrate through the eyes of a long line of geologists and others, how our understanding of the Wicklow landscape has evolved over the centur...
Greystones Archaeological & Historical Society
The next meeting of Greystones Archaeological and Historical Society will take place at 8.30pm on Thursday, 22 January 2015 in Holy Rosary Family Centre, Greystones. The speaker will be Wicklow archaeologist Yvonne Whitty, who will introduce the documentary, The story of Preban Graveyard.. Located between Aughrim and Tinahely and recently restored by a local committee, Preban graveyard contains prehistoric carvings as well as a wealth of 18thc ...
Enniskerry in the Civil War
... Thanks to Brian White from Bray Cualann History Society for sending in this image which he came across from a Montana newspaper. ...
Kilmacanogue History Talk - 13th January
KILMACANOGUE HISTORY SOCIETY Glenview Hotel – 13th January 2015 Wicklow Birds – part of our natural heritage Eric Dempsey In this visually stunning presentation Eric will focus on birds which can be found in County Wicklow, both native and migratory. He will describe their different habitats, their breeding seasons and migrating movements, and their struggle to survive our harsh winters. He will also tell us of some breeds which ha...
Heritage Maps
... Jim Rees I've just spent the last two hours playing on this site - it's wonderful! Even better is the fact that it is just up and running and they are asking for everyone to give feedback. I suggest you take a couple of townlands at most and see what information they have on each site. A lot need to be updated, but that's what they are asking for. This will be a really great tool in years to come. ...
PURE Mile 2015
The PURE Mile is an annual initiative that encourages communities across Wicklow to look after and showcase the heritage of their local area. Often described as the rural version of ‘Tidy Towns’ , the competition rewards local efforts to compile information about the heritage and folklore on their doorsteps and to take steps to improve their local environment. The PURE Mile is now seeking applications for 2015, click on the pdf below to downlo...
Kilmacurragh: Sourced In The Wild
... Deirdre Burns Sounds like an excellent publication. Anyone visiting Kilmacurragh may also be interested in reading more at the OPW/ National Botanic Gardens website at: https://www.botanicgardens.ie/kilmac/kilmhist.htm ...
Soldiers' Wills
Irish Soldiers’ wills digitised This collection of soldiers’ wills, which has been digitised and made available online by the National Archives, provides a poignant insight into the last days of Irish men killed in the first World War. Many were young and not yet married and bequethed their possessions, little as they were in most cases, to their parents, siblings or friends. Soldiers encouraged to make a will The English army authorities encoura...
The Little Book of Wicklow
The Little Book of Wicklow by Chris Lawlor will be launched in Meitheal Café, Market Square, Dunlavin (formerly Teach de Gras public house) on Friday 28 November at 8.00 p.m. Everybody is welcome to come along on the night. Light refreshments will be served and books will be on sale at a special launch price of 12 euro per copy. The Little Book of Wicklow is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Wicklo...
Wicklow PURE Miles on Camera
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ffPymLxlbLI A new short film from PURE gives a beautiful and uplifting flavour of the Wicklow countryside. Click on the PLAY button above to watch. Produced this year to celebrate five years of the PURE Mile project it gives a whistle stop tour of the ‘miles’ in the following places (in albhabetical order) Annamoe , Arklow , Aughrim, Ashford , Askanagap , Avondale , Ballinamanogue/Mullins , Ballycoog , Ballymanus , B...
Wicklow's Riotous Assemblies 1924
Wicklow Historical Society Next lecture: Tuesday 25 November 2014, St. Patrick’s NationalSchool, WicklowTown, 8.00 pm. Wicklow’s Riotous Assemblies 1924 Wicklow Town witnessed some of the most violent confrontations between Larkinites and anti-Larkinites following the split in the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union and the setting up of the Workers’ Union of Ireland in 1924. Towards the end of that year the serious nature of the co...
Launch of Roundwood 2015 Calendar
The Roundwood and District Community Council are delighted to announce the launch of their second Roundwood Calendar for 2015. The calendar came about as a result of a number of digital camera courses organised by the group with the support of the Community Education Programme of Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board. The community rallied to the call for photographs with the group receiving hundreds of images by email, on disc and mem...
Kilmacanogue History Society - December 2nd. Meeting
... Patrick Feland Some nice work and book's on my Kirkwood family, my gg mother Isabella Matilda Emily Kirkwood of Woodbrook married John Law Hackett of Ardcarn House, im thinking Isabella brother or nephew was married into the Jamsons family Thomas William Kirkwood married Harriet Sara Jamson! ...
Rathgall Hillfort
“Rathgall was a site of quite exceptional importance in the centuries spanning the birth of Christ, an importance that was clearly pan-European. The variety of structural information that the excavation yielded is unprecedented in the Bronze Age and the extraordinary concentration of artifactual evidence from the site has not been matched elsewhere in the country. Rathgall opens a wide range of questions concerning, not merely the nature of the I...
The Village of Annamoe
What is “Annamoe?” Why is the name “Annamoe Mansions” cast in concrete on the front of an apartment building built in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1914? The answer is found in the tortured Ireland-England history of the past 700 years. It is found in the Hudson’s Bay Company occupation of Canada from 1670 to 1866. It is found in the remarkable 1910 land boom in Edmonton and a prominent Irish family possibly anticipating recrimination for supporti...
Women In World War 1
A Paper presented at the La Touche Legacy Seminar on Friday 26th September 2014 This paper is dedicated to Mary Brien, Biddy Whelan and Bridget Sherry of Bray and the thousands of other Wicklow women whose lives were changed forever by World War I Historic Postcard showing Little Bray War is a Men – Only Affair On the 18th of August 1917 the Irish Times reported that a 45 year old woman, Margaret Farrell, appeared before a Scottish court and was ...

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