Today is the 11th November 2018. On this day one hundred years ago, World War 1 ended. If you use this interactive website AStreetNearYou.org and enter the place where you live, you will find the names of young men who fought and died in World War 1 who came from a street near you. Click HERE to visit the site.
Links for Teachers
Links for Teachers – Record of Protected Structures – Wicklow County Council Area, 2016
There is a list of protected structures in Greystones on pages 16-23 of the link at the bottom of this page.
Among the structures on this link
are a number of post boxes around Greystones
that date from a time when Ireland was part of the United Kingdom.
If you see VR on the post box, that stands for Queen Victoria
so it is a postbox put up between 1853-1901.
ER VII on a post box stands for Edward VII (put up between 1901-1910)
GR on a post box stands for George V so it was put up after 1910
and before Ireland became independent in 1922.
These postboxes would originally have been painted red.
Record of Protected Structures – Wicklow County Council Area, 2016
Please note the postbox in the photo on this post is not taken in Greystones
however it is an Irish postbox.
Questions for Students:
Can you see the letters on this postbox.
From looking at the letters can you tell when this postbox dates from?
Keep an eye out for the postboxes in your neighbourhood.
Do they have any markings on them that show when they were put up?
Links for Teachers – Greystones on Pathé News – 1926 & 1928 Swimming Gala
Links for Teachers – Greystones – 1911 Census
Click HERE to see the 1911 Census for Greystones. Greystones doesn’t seem to be mentioned in the census for 1901 Click on this LINK to a telling census entry from James Joseph Hazlett which may or may not be a ‘sign of the times.’
Links for Teachers – The Diary of a Victorian Girl
David Flam via Compfight
Scroll down this LINK to see to five short videos on life for a Victorian maid
on the The Literacy Shed
These videos tie in with the main characters diary on the Channel 4 website.
Tie in with Irish Primary School Curriculum – History – Strand: My Locality – Strand Unit: My Locality throughout the ages
Strand: My Locality
Strand Unit: My Locality throughout the ages
study a period or periods in the history of the town, parish or county
become familiar
with important events in the history of the locality,
setting local figures or events
in the national and international context where relevant. In addition to the developments suggested for this unit in third and fourth classes, suitable subjects might include
- origins of place names
- local battles
- changes in land settlement or use
- changing farming practices
- significant events in the economic life of the area
- impact of changes in services and sanitation
- patterns of relationships between towns and their surrounding areas
Links for Teachers – Mentions of Greystones on the ‘County Wicklow Heritage’ website
Click on this link to see mentions of Greystones on the County Wicklow Heritage website
Rob Hurson via Compfight
Timeline of Irish History – Middle Stone Age to Iron Age
Click HERE for a detailed timeline of Irish history from Mesolithic Ireland 8000BC
through Neolithic times, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age 2500BC
Photos of Greystones Long Ago on Greystones Guide
Links for Teachers – Mountsandel.com from Coleraine Borough Council, Northern Ireland
Click on this link to see
Exciting Interactive Link – Historic Environment Viewer from Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Just put the name of your home place in the search box and click on the dots to see places of historic interest. We put in Greystones, Delgany and Charlesland in the search box and were amazed with what we found.
Historic Environment Viewer from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
‘Copyright Government of Ireland. The content of this application is owned and operated by National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. This copyright material is licensed for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence’.
Links for Teachers – National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
On this link: the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
you can see houses from Greystones.
Neil Dorgan via Compfight
Links for Teachers – Interactive Map of Viking Dublin
Links for Teachers – The History of Greystones
- Greystones 1864 – 1964 was written by Samuel French (1964).
This is a very informative booklet written
for the centenary of St. Patrick’s Church in Greystones.
It tells how Greystones got its name
and follows the history of Greystones
from when it was a small fishing village,
through to the coming of the railway and the growth of the town.
2. There is a wonderful archive of photos on Greystones Guide.
Many of these were collected by Derek Paine.
They are being added to all the time.
3. Greystones is also very lucky to have an active
Greystones Archaeological and Historical Society.
In November 2015, Greystones Archaelogicial and Historical Society
sent the schools in Greystones a very useful information pack.
This has proved to be a valuable resource
and reawakened our interest in local history
here in St. Brigid’s National School in Greystones..
There is a lot of information to be found
in the journals produced by this group.
Click on this LINK to see them.
Check out the website.
There is a lot to see.
Please supervise children when they are researching online.
The internet is a portal to the outside world.
Useful Links for Teachers: The Stone Age
Archaeology in the Classroom – It’s About Time!
lesson plans and resources from Limerick Education Centre
and the Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
and Primary Curriculum Support Service (2005)
It’s About Time – Module 4 – The Stone Age Hunters
Interactive Stone Age Tool Kit from PBS
Dorling Kindersley’s FindOut.com – Stone Age Food
Mountsandel.com – An interactive site from Coleraine Borough Council, Northern Ireland
Links for Teachers – The Placenames of County Wicklow
Rona Kelly via Compfight
Click HERE to see ‘The Placenames of Co. Wicklow’
– From A to W – by Diarmuid O Keeffe.
This information on local placenames
was put together as part of student work experience
in the Heritage Office of Wicklow County Council
using “The Placenames of County Wicklow” by Liam Price.
Links for Teachers – A Simple Timeline of Stone Age flints
‘Have I found a Stone Age tool?’ from The Museum of the Stone Age
Wessex Archaeology via Compfight
Have you found a strange shaped stone?
Are you wondering if it is a Stone Age tool?
Click HERE to go to the Museum of The Stone Age and find out.