1 Constricted and fleetly- flowing for utmost of its passage, the Dargle has created a narrow flood tide straight before reaching its marshy creek
. East Wicklow remained marchland, the edge of' the land of war', rather than part of' the land of peace' under the control of the English crown; it was terrorised, particularly at crop time, by' the Irish of the mountains'. The manorial sludge shop l and its successors, with the shop race, continued to operate on roughly the same point until the end of the nineteenth century; it was routinely cited in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deeds, binding leaseholders in Great Irish major municipalities Atlas Royal Irish Academy 1 spots in medieval Bray. Several Romano- British burials, maybe part of a cemetery, exhumed on the Bray reinforcement in the vicinity of the present Esplanade Terrace, 3 raise the possibility of a alternate- century presence from outside Ireland. They're also responsible for the rocky elevation, formerly known as' the gemstone of Bray', 2 which rises at the top of the present city in the vicinity of the Loreto Convent and Christ Church. The seventeenth- century event with the most far- reaching counteraccusations for the development of Bray was the formal partition of the manor house in 1666 between Edward Brabazon, second earl of Meath, and the earl of Tyrconnell ( excursus A). 9 Sir Hugh de Lawless, granted the manor house in 1316, surrendered it back to the crown in 1320, stating that his profit during five times of residency had amounted to two salmon, 1 0 while in the 1330s Bray was described as being' in the march, so that scarcely anything can be entered therefrom'. I f there was indeed an early church, also the castle may have been designedly deposited conterminous to it. The entitlement of a request in 1213, together with the burgesses mentioned over, indicates that the agreement of Bray at this time had city status, a status it would fail to maintain. This ground, not shown on the Down Survey maps and so presumably erected at a date close to 1660, replaced the shoal in use at least since AngloNorman times.
