
Bray crossroads, last Thursday
verybody needs good neighbours, and Greystones is blessed with some of the very best.
How can you not love a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it village like Killincarrig? Or the majestic Delgany – even if it is slowly turning into Dalkey Lite?
Add in Glen Of The Downs, Kilcoole, Wicklow, Newcastle and – gulp! – Bray, and bejiggers, we’re surrounded by all kinds of beauty. And history.
As our main Old Greystones Pics archives started to buckle under the sheer weight of photographs we’ve unearthed from near and far, we decided it might be wise to start breaking them down into digestible sub-categories. And so it is that you can splash around the Old Harbour, take a stroll
through the Old Shops, stopping off for a pint in one of our Old Hotels, or just have a chat with some old folk in our People Power section.
There are many more, all waiting for you in the drop-down menu from that Olde option. For now though, let’s throw our arms
around those good neighbours.
Besides the photographs below, you may want to check out our archives on Bray, Delgany, Kilmacanogue, Killincarrig, Kilcoole, Newcastle, Enniskerry and Wicklow Town, as well as Pathé News footage of Delgany here, or the Great Snow of ’82 here. Oh, and if you feel like taking a stroll down through Delgany’s Blind Lane, or through the Glebe, you can do that here agus here.

Glen Of The Downs 1835

N11: The Early Years

Killincarrig Rush Hour

Lodge at Killincarrig Crossroads. home to Bridget & Michael O’Reilly, head shepherd for the Burnaby Estate

Thatched Cottage, Bellevue Hill, Delgany

Wicklow Circa 1910

The road to Enniskerry 1890

Enniskerry bound, I be bound…

Welcome To Enniskerry 1870

Enniskerry postcard. Source Unknown

Kilmacanogue Post Office Source Uknown

Roundwood 1800s with Kean’s Hotel left and The Prince Of Wales hotel right

Rocky Valley living… Source: Derek Paine

Newcastle Hospital Postcard

Blackberry Lane The Stereo Pairs Photog

The view for the man sitting above #2: Delgany Village

Killincarrick Castle. Last Tuesday.

Early taxi service outside The Horse & Hound, Delgany Source Derek Paine

Glen Of The Downs 1794 Jonathan Fisher Colourised

Glen Of The Downs Colourised

Glen Of The Downs Etching Colourised

Glen Of The Downs & Delgany postcard. Circa 1970. We reckon.

Glen of The Downs 1867

Glen of The Downs 1870s

Glen Of The Downs 1880 Source: Patrick Neary

Glen Of The Downs – 19th Century Rush Hour

Glen Of The Downs Postcard 1918

Glen of The Downs postcard – colorised, baby

Glen Of The Downs Sugarloarf Robert French

Glen Of The Downs Vintage Postcard

Glen Of The Downs vintage postcard

Glen Of The Downs Octagon Distance Source Patrick Neary

Now, that’s a grand day, to be sure, to be sure…

The Sugar Loaf from another angle. Not sure which. Source: Roaringwater Journal

Delgany Bus on Trafalgar Road 1964

Carmelite Monastery Delgany RP Postcard by MK O’Connor May 1921

La Touche cottage, Glen Of The Downs

Glen Of The Downs Robert French

Glen Of The Downs Roundabout Site 1970s Harry Acheson

Glen Of the Downs Bellevue Woods Harry Acheson

Glen Of The Downs Postcard Pic Patrick Neary

Glen of The Downs steel engraving 1850 by WH Bartlett Pic Patrick Neary

Tom ‘The Horn’ Byrne & his wife outside Templecarrig Lodge 1880

Kilcoole Before Those Fancy Traffic Lights

Ireton’s Kilcoole outlet

A Kilcoole Shopping Spree

Entrance to Brittas Bay

Brittas Bay Vintage Postcard 2

Brittas Bay Vintage Postcard
2 comments
An amazing collection of Delgany photographs, thanks to the great William Lawrence, Robert French, and local man my Friend the late Derek Payne. I was privileged to live in Delgany 1966 with my late wife Evelyn nee Evans from nearby Killincarrig. We rented Spencer Somers ground floor and would marvel at the regular Saturday spectacle of the full liveried Horses and Hounds off for the hunt, parade right through the village. Lovely to see Christ Church where we were married January 1966, Very fond nostalgic memories of beautiful Delgany.
Love the old photos, makes me fair homesick! Mind you, the massive changes make it all ‘rose tinted!’