Raheen-a-Cluig Church

On the northern slopes of Bray Head, a short climb from the car park at the end of Raheen Park, stand the ruins of a small 12th or 13th-century church with spectacular views over Bray and the Irish Sea. Its name, Raheen-a-Cluig, means the little fort or church of the bell. The roofless nave and chancel, under eleven metres long, survives with both gables largely intact, a north door with parts of its cut granite jambs, simple round-headed windows in the east and west gables and a niche in the south wall, all on a small level platform cut into the steep hillside. A patch of rubble just to the east may mark the foundations of another building. Reviewers describe it as the oldest built feature on Bray Head and a good stop on the way up to the cross on the summit or to the start of the Cliff Walk to Greystones. OPW warns that the path up is steep and often overgrown.