placenamesSandymount
Dumhach Thrá
Sandymount’s village green and coastal defences record its transformation from an industrial shore to a residential seaside suburb.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Dumhach Thrá · Irish · main form · validated name
- Sandymount · English · main form
Place & story
From brickworks to villas
Eighteenth-century brickworks supplied building material for Dublin’s Georgian development. The settlement appears as Brickfield Town on Rocque’s map of 1760. Later, the Fitzwilliam estate shaped the growing seaside neighbourhood through building leases, while shops clustered around the Green. The railway to Kingstown, opened in 1834, helped the village expand. [2]
A defended strand
The Martello tower on the strand belongs to the defensive system built against the threat of Napoleonic invasion. It carried two cannon, distinguishing it from smaller coastal towers. Along the promenade, the sculpture An Cailín Bán by the Mexican artist Sebastian was erected in November 2002, a gift from Mexico to Dublin. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Dublin
- Civil parish
- Donnybrook
- Coordinates
- 53.32511, -6.22882 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 1.05 km²
- Logainm ID
- 57191 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Sandymount. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Sandymount Village Design Statement, 2011, history and social context · Sandymount VDS Steering Committee, Heritage Council and Dublin City Council
- Sandymount Promenade: history and art · Dublin City Council
- Sandymount townland, Donnybrook parish, Pembroke East · Townlands.ie / OpenStreetMap contributors
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.