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A WALK AROUND GREYSTONES

A Walk Around Greystones

As part of the 2014 La Touche Legacy Weekend, Greystones
Archaeological & Historical Society (GAHS) committee members
Joan Jones and Rosemary Raughter led an historical walking
tour of Greystones. The event proved very popular, attracting
native Greystonians as well as long-term and more recent
residents and visitors to the town and several of the walkers were
able to contribute their own nuggets of information based on
personal experience and family tradition. As a result of the
interest shown, Joan and Rosemary repeated the walk during
the winter with pupils from St Patrick’s NS and with St David’s
Transition Year students. Earlier this year (2015) a brochure
covering the route taken and with details of many of the town’s
buildings and their associations was issued by GAHS with the
generous support of the La Touche Legacy Committee, and this
is available free of charge from Greystones Library and at
several local businesses. What follows here is a much more
detailed account of the walking route, and of some of the most
significant events, individuals and developments in Greystones’s
history.

T
his walk through Greystones’s past begins just across from
Greystones Station, at Ireton’s shop on Killincarrig Road.
This, with the adjoining shop and houses, was built by Patrick
Joseph Kinlen, who came to Greystones towards the close of the
1890s, purchased land from the Hawkins-Whitshed/Burnaby
estate, and was responsible for a number of houses on the
Burnaby Estate as well as buildings elsewhere in the town.

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