Greystones

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Greystones, Seen from the North (2005)
Greystones Harbor with Bray Head (2007)

Greystones ( Irish : Na Clocha Liatha ) is a coastal town in County Wicklow in the east of the Republic of Ireland .

The place

Greystones is a place on the east coast of Ireland , 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 17 miles north. Greystones is therefore in the Greater Dublin Area , which has an impact on the transport links. During Census 2016 in Greystones Delgany-lived 18,140 people, so the place of the largest cities in the county counts Wicklow.

The name Greystones is derived from a one kilometer long gray-colored rocky coast between two stretches of beach. In the north of this section called the sea front lies the local port (which is in a not undisputed, extensive renovation and expansion process in 2009) and a stony beach that begins there; to the south is the train station and about a kilometer from a wide sandy beach, which attracts many visitors.

In 2008 Greystones won the LivCom Award as the most livable city in the world for places with up to 20,000 inhabitants.

Transport links

DART between Bray and Greystones (2013)

Greystones is connected to the N11 , which runs close to the coast from Dublin via Bray and Arklow to Wexford Town and on to Rosslare Harbor on the south-eastern tip of the country.

Greystones is served by the Iarnród Éireann via Intercity and South Eastern Commuter and is the southern end point of the DART system of the Iarnród Éireann, which is synchronized with the commuter .

By bus, Greystones is served by several Dublin Bus lines; Air Coach also connects the place from Charlesland in the south of Greystone directly to Dublin Airport every day .

A cliff walk between Greystones and Bray along the railway line around Bray Head can be completed on foot in around two hours .

Sports

Born in 1986 in the village of Kilpedder near Greystones, Paul McShane played as a boy at Greystones United , the football club with the largest student division for girls and boys in the country; the Greystones RFC , which has existed since 1937, is a rugby union club known in Ireland .

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map of Ireland (can be enlarged greatly)
  2. ↑ Greystones-Delgany (agglomeration) on citypopulation.de, accessed on October 16, 2017
  3. ↑ RTÉ : Greystones 'world's most liveable community' , November 10, 2008

Coordinates: 53 ° 9 ′  N , 6 ° 4 ′  W