Greystones
Greystones ( Irish: Na Clocha Liatha ) is a coastal town in County Wicklow on the east of the Republic of Ireland.
The place
Greystones is a town on the east coast of Ireland, located east of the Wicklow Mountains and south of Bray Head on the Irish Sea, eight kilometers south of the seaside resort of Bray. The Irish capital Dublin is 27 km to the north. Thus is Greystones in the Greater Dublin Area, which, inter alia, to impact on the transport links. At the Census 2006 there were 10,112 people in the city; in the region, the number is about 15,000 people. Greystones to Bray and Arklow is the third largest city in the county of Wicklow.
The name Greystones is derived from a one kilometer long gray -colored cliffs between two beach sections. To the north of this section called the sea front, the local port is ( in 2009 in a not uncontroversial, extensive renovation and expansion process is ) and there incipient stony beach; to the south is the railway station and about a kilometer a wide sandy beach which attracts many visitors.
2008 Greystones won the LivCom award the title as the most liveable city in the world for places to 20,000 inhabitants.
Transport links
Greystones is connected to the N11, the offshore leads from Dublin Bray and Arklow to Wexford Town and on to Rosslare Harbour on the southeastern tip of the country.
Greystones is operated by Iarnród Éireann by Intercity and Commuter Southeastern and is the southern terminus of this far with the Commuter corotating DART system of Iarnród Éireann.
By bus Greystones is supplied by several lines of Dublin Bus; Air Coach connects the town from Charles land to the south Greystones also daily directly to the Dublin airport.
Walk a Cliff Walk can be completed in around two hours between Greystones and Bray along the railway line to Bray Head.
Sports
Born in the village Kilpedder in Greystones 1986 international Paul McShane played as a boy at Greystones United, the football club with the largest student sections for girls and boys throughout the country; the existing since 1937 Greystones RFC is a well known Irish Rugby Union Club.
Personalities
- Elizabeth Alice Hawkins Whitshed (1861-1934), Irish mountaineer, photographer and writer
- Tina Reynolds, Irish pop singer
- Christy Doran ( b. 1949 ), Irish -Swiss Jazz guitarist and fusion musicians
- Brigeen Doran (born 1954 ), Irish -Swiss Jazzsaxophonistin
- Phelim Drew (born 1969 ), Irish actor