1 Constricted and fleetly- flowing for utmost of its passage, the Dargle has created a narrow flood tide straight before reaching its marshy creek
. 1 6 The partition, supplemented by a domicile- plutocrat roll of 1668, 1 7 also provides the first information since the extent of 1311 on the element corridor of the agreement. It was demolished without trace at some unlisted date in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. A thick subcaste of boulder complexion overlies the littoral jewels, particularly to the north of the Dargle creek
, where shallow escarpments cut into the complexion have been vastly affected by littoral corrosion. 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. 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'. But although the descent from the ground to what was latterly Back Street was supposedly not easy to . 8 The manor house of Bray, separated from the nearestO'Toole fort of Powerscourt by only a many kilometres, must always have been a high target for the aggressors, and clearly it was of doubtful value to its colorful letters. From its Anglo- Norman onsets as a agreement above the swash, Bray first extended sluggishly to the south- west along gently rising ground and latterly, in an explosion of civic growth in the alternate half of the nineteenth century, expanded to cover this littoral plain. 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.
