Bray (County Wicklow) Township Act 1866
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1866 c. cclxi |
ANNO VICESIMO NONO & TRICESIMO
VICTORLE REGINiE.
Cap.
cclxi.
An Act for the Improvement of the Town and
District of Bray in the Baronies of Rathdown
and Counties of Dublin and
JVicklow.
[23d July 1866.]
W
HEREAS the Township of Bray in the Baronies of Rath-
down in the Counties of Dublin and Wickloio is a District
in which " The Towns Improvement {Ireland) Act, 1854,"
is in force, and under that Act Commissioners for the Improvement
of the said Township have been elected and are in Office : And
whereas the District of Bray is a large, populous, and improving
District, and the Population thereof has of late Years greatly increased
and is increasing: And whereas the Extension of the Limits of the
said Township, and the Formation of the District into One Township,
would be of local and public Advantage : And whereas it is expedient
that further and better Provision should be made for the lighting,
paving, sewering, draining, cleansing, supplying with Water, con-
trolling Fairs and Markets, and otherwise improving and regulating
the Township: And whereas it is desirable that the making and
maintaining of Roads, Footways, and Bridges within the Township
should be transferred from the Grand Juries of the Counties of Dublin
and JVicklow to the Commissioners appointed under this Act: And
whereas Plans and Sections of the Works by this Act authorized,
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30° VICTORIA,
Cap.
cclxi.
The Bray Township Act, 1866.
showing the Lines and Levels
thereof,
and also a Book of Reference
to the Plans containing the Names of the Owners and Lessees, or
reputed Owners and Lessees, and Occupiers of the Lands to be taken
for the Purposes
thereof,
have been deposited with the Clerks of the
Peace for the Counties of Dublin and JVickloiv, and such Plans,
Sections, and Book of Reference are in this Act referred to as the
deposited Plans, Sections, and Book of Reference : And whereas the
Objects of this Act cannot be attained without the Authority of
Parliament: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be
enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and
by the Authority of the same, as follows; (that is to say,)
Short
Title.
1. This Act may for all Purposes be cited as " The Bray Town-
ship Act, 1866."
Limits of
Act.
2.
The following are the Limits of this Act and the Boundaries of
the Township; (that is to say,)
• The Boundary commences at Low-water Mark on the Sea Shore,
at the North-eastern Corner of the present Township of Bray,
and thence along the Centre of the Boundary of the said Town-
ship to its Junction with the County Boundary in the Bray
River; thence Westward along the Centre of the said River to
the Boundary of the detached Portion of the Townland of Bray
Commons; thence Southward along a Stream through the Town-
land of Killarney to a Road leading to the old Road from Bray
to Newtown Mount Kennedy ; thence Southward along the
Eastern Side of said Road to its Junction with the Newtown
Mount Kennedy Road at the Southern Boundary of Killarney
Cottage; thence in a South-easterly Direction in a straight
Line to meet the Stream in the Townland of Oldcourt,• thence
Southward along the said Stream to a Point where it is crossed
by the Boghall
Road;
thence Eastward along the Northern
Side of the said Boghall Road to its Junction with the Eastern
Boundary of the Townland of Kilruddery Demesne; thence
Northward and Eastward along the said Boundary to its
Junction with the Road leading from Bray to Greystones; thence
Eastward along the Boundary between the Townlands of New-
court and Ballynamuddagh to the Sea; thence by the Sea Shore
to the Point first named.
3.
In the event of the said Township being hereafter extended so
as to include other Districts adjoining the same within the Operation
Townslr °f of tne " Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854," and the Acts
incorporated therewith, such annexed District shall from and after the
Annexation thereof form a Part of the Township, and shall be subject
to
Provision
for future
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