(Hill.)

Bray is one of Ireland’s longest established seaside resorts, it was developed when the railway was extended south of Dún Laoghaire in the 1850s. The predominately Victorian architecture of the promenade and sea front, contrasting with the more modern parts of the town.

The writer James Joyce lived there from 1889 to 1891. Among the sites is the National Aquarium. A massive cross has been erected on a rock at Bray Head jutting out into the sea to mark the Roman Catholic holy year of 1950.

(Wykinglo 'Vikings meadow' )

Wicklow town is said to have been founded by the Vikings in the ninth century, at the west end of Main Street are the fragmentary remains of a Franciscan friary founded in the 13th century.

Many fine buildings in the town date from the 18th century, one of these is the Town Hall, behind which is the the remains of the old Jail, built in 1702. It ceased to be used as a jail in 1924, it is now a heritage centre and museum. It was in this building that Billy Byrne was executed for his part in the 1798 rebellion, he commented by a monument in Market street.

The tiny village of Glencree consists of little more than a huddle of cottages, sitting at the foot of a military road that rubs through the Wicklow mountains. The buildings behind St Kevin's church were originally used to house troops who patrolled the area during the 1798 rebellion, They now house the Irish geological survey.

A path in front of the church leads to a pleasant wooded walk along the banks of the river Glencree. Near the church is a military cemetery established by the German government, in the cemetery the bodies of German seamen washed ashore during the two world wars, as well as airmen who crashed on Irish soil.