I was there a year ago and it was closed on the bray side but not the greystones side, and there was no notice of it at all. It looks like they added a second fence further out but people were able to climb around it. Imagine you started in greystones with kids/dogs/buggies
I hear greystones are secretly working to keep it closed to keep the unwashed masses from Bray away from their coffee shops and 12 antique furniture shops.
I just climb over it on the right side. Pain in the ass, but I’ve seen a lot of people do it.
Why is it closed anyway? Edit: found out…rockfalls. I was out of the country for a few years and hadn’t heard.
There are more subtle ways of keeping people from Bray out.
You can go along over the top way with steps down on both the Bray and Greystones side, better views also just could be abit more challenging for some
Don’t wanna click the link. What’s the finding?
It is a conspiracy to stop the future development of the greater braystones area
Did anyone else find this article pretty hard work to wade through?
Seems to be saying part of it will reopen, but not the whole trail?
Tried to bring a German friend there a couple of months back. He did the most German thing possible, which was to refuse to take another step after seeing the “closed” sign, even as people walked right past it.
To be fair, that damage sounds fairly catastrophic. A lump taken out of the cliff and a 100ft drop in the middle of the path down into the sea? Yeah, it’s probably going to be a good while before anything is done to restore it.
That part of the cliff has a history of erosion and storm damage anyway going back to when I.K Brunel built the first railway from Bray to Greystones. The tunnel that the dart currently runs through is the ‘new’ one, but the original 1850’s on is disused and is next to it.
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TIL it was closed
I was there a year ago and it was closed on the bray side but not the greystones side, and there was no notice of it at all. It looks like they added a second fence further out but people were able to climb around it. Imagine you started in greystones with kids/dogs/buggies
I hear greystones are secretly working to keep it closed to keep the unwashed masses from Bray away from their coffee shops and 12 antique furniture shops.
I just climb over it on the right side. Pain in the ass, but I’ve seen a lot of people do it.
Why is it closed anyway? Edit: found out…rockfalls. I was out of the country for a few years and hadn’t heard.
There are more subtle ways of keeping people from Bray out.
You can go along over the top way with steps down on both the Bray and Greystones side, better views also just could be abit more challenging for some
Don’t wanna click the link. What’s the finding?
It is a conspiracy to stop the future development of the greater braystones area
Did anyone else find this article pretty hard work to wade through?
Seems to be saying part of it will reopen, but not the whole trail?
Tried to bring a German friend there a couple of months back. He did the most German thing possible, which was to refuse to take another step after seeing the “closed” sign, even as people walked right past it.
To be fair, that damage sounds fairly catastrophic. A lump taken out of the cliff and a 100ft drop in the middle of the path down into the sea? Yeah, it’s probably going to be a good while before anything is done to restore it.
That part of the cliff has a history of erosion and storm damage anyway going back to when I.K Brunel built the first railway from Bray to Greystones. The tunnel that the dart currently runs through is the ‘new’ one, but the original 1850’s on is disused and is next to it.