Noel Kennedy received an award from Ireland’s Heritage Council for his “A brief history of Greystones” It was produced by Peter McNiff .
I WONDER how many of you know a book called "The Stones of Bray" by Cannon Digby Scott, the father of Miss Jessie Scott of Knockdolian in Church Lane? He was rector of Bray and the book was published in 1913. He begins the geology and moves from there into archaeology and history. He begins with the stones of Bray Head - Cambrian rocks, staggeringly ancient compared with the short span of human history.
From Bray Head to the Murrough of Wicklow there stretches a dozen miles of low, soft easily eroded shore, broken only by this one outcrop of hard Cambrian rock on which this building stands, rising out of the sea and reaching a modest summit at the top of Jones's Hill. I am told that about 70 years ago in Bray there was an old man who used to talk about The Stones. So and so had been to The Stones [he would say but] he himself had not been to The Stones for a long time. If asked by a stranger "What Stones?" he would have replied "Why the grey stones, of course". The rocks jutting into the sea outside the new St David's school used to be marked on maps and charts as "The Grey Stones". There is no record of human habitation on this rock of ours till very late in history so I will begin by saying something about the surrounding district. (........ Read More)