placenamesNewtown Vevay
An tSeanchúirt
The Vevay district south of central Bray preserves nineteenth-century domestic architecture and a later history of schools reusing local buildings.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- An tSeanchúirt · Irish · main form · validated name
- Newtown Vevay · English · main form
Place & story
Vevay House
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage dates Vevay House to 1868. The two-storey house has a formal granite entrance portico, a central pediment and varied window surrounds. The inventory records its later use as a school and suggests that it may incorporate part of an earlier Oldcourt House. That possible older fabric remains a qualified interpretation. [2]
St Cronan’s on Vevay Hill
St Cronan’s traces its origins to parochial schools on Seapoint Road in 1820. Its own history dates the move to Vevay Hill to 1932, when the boys’ school adopted the Saint Cronan name. A new building within the grounds opened to pupils in November 1999. Gaelscoil Uí Chéadaigh subsequently occupied the older schoolhouse, continuing its educational use. [3]
Maintaining the local roads
Grand Jury presentments from the mid-1860s record payments to John Pluck for maintaining a stretch of road between Putland’s road from Newtown Vevay towards the sea and the turn of Novara. This small entry preserves the practical geography of the district: named roads, private landowners’ approaches and continuing expenditure on the routes linking the settlement with the shore. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Newtown Vevay. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Vevay House, registration 16301321 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- History of St Cronan’s · St Cronan’s National School, Bray
- Wicklow Grand Jury presentments: Spring 1864 to Spring 1866 · Wicklow County Council Archives; original Grand Jury records
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.