Qualla: Greystones https://qualla.com/greystones en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/7/w/greystones-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Greystones https://qualla.com/greystones Greystones: Introduction https://qualla.com/greystones/ Photo credit CC0. When Greystones first appears in print in 1795, the antiquarian William Wenman Seward describes it as "a noted fishing place four miles beyond Bray." That is all. The fishing village would have stayed small if not for the railway. The line from Dublin reached Bray in 1854, and a year later it was extended south to Greystones - a difficult engineering job that was performed in consultation with Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the man who built the Great Western Railway in England and the SS Great Eastern in London. The station was placed precisely on the boundary between two great estates: the La Touche family of Bellevue and the Hawkins-Whitshed family of Killincarrig House. What grew up around it was shaped by both families - especially by an extraordinary Victorian woman named Lizzie Le Blond who developed Ireland's first planned housing estate here in the 1870s. Today Greystones has 22,009 residents and the most expensive postcode in Ireland outside Dublin.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/7/w/greystones-wp/gc7w-greystones-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Greystones: Brunel and the Difficult Line https://qualla.com/greystones/ Photo credit LFinn, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Dublin to Wexford railway south of Bray ran into geological problems immediately. The terrain around Bray Head, a sea cliff of greywackes and quartzite, required a tunnel, a viaduct, and constant battles against coastal erosion that have continued ever since - the original al...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/7/w/greystones-wp/gc7w-greystones-brunel-and-the-difficult-line.mp3 0:06 2 full Greystones: Lizzie Le Blond's Garden Town https://qualla.com/greystones/ Photo credit 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0. Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed, who inherited the Hawkins-Whitshed estate in 1871, was one of the more remarkable Irish Victorian women. She married Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby - a celebrated explorer who almost never visited Wicklow - and is better known to mountaineering his...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/7/w/greystones-wp/gc7w-greystones-lizzie-le-blonds-garden-town.mp3 0:06 3 full Greystones: The Harbour That Almost Wasn't Built https://qualla.com/greystones/ Photo credit Moptoptv, CC BY-SA 4.0. Between 1885 and 1897, the people of Greystones campaigned for a harbour to support their fishing industry and to allow coal imports. The original pier, dock and sea wall they finally won survived a century in steadily worsening condition. In 1968, the foundation of the old Kish ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/7/w/greystones-wp/gc7w-greystones-the-harbour-that-almost-wasnt-built.mp3 0:06 4 full Greystones: Swimrise and the Quiet Boom https://qualla.com/greystones/ Photo credit Dimitry Anikin, CC BY-SA 4.0. Greystones today is something between a commuter suburb of Dublin and a wellness town. The population has nearly doubled since 1986, with major housing developments at Charlesland, Seagreen, Glenheron and Archer's Wood pushing the boundaries outward; Wicklow County Council plans ...

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