Ireland
Leinster
Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown

Sandycove

Sandycove is a suburb of , Ireland. It is southeast of and Glasthule, and northwest of . It is a popular seaside resort and is well known for its bathing place, the Forty Foot, which in the past was reserved for men only but is now available for mixed bathing.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include James Joyce Tower and Museum and Glenageary.

Museum
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The is a in Sandycove, , where James Joyce spent six nights in 1904. The opening scenes of his 1922 novel Ulysses take place here, and the tower is a place of pilgrimage for Joyce enthusiasts, especially on Bloomsday.

Railway station
Photo: Doug Lee, CC BY-SA 2.0.
railway station serves in , Ireland. It is beside 'The Metals', a walking and cycling route that runs from to .

Railway station
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railway station serves the suburban areas of in , Ireland. The building is on a bridge as the rail line is in a cutting.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dalkey and Dún Laoghaire.

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is a picturesque seaside village in the suburbs of Dublin. It has a Norman castle, several scenic walks, and the island just offshore was a pilgrimage site and slave market.

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is a port 10 km south of Dublin. It's no longer the ferry port, but has strong associations with James Joyce, who wrote and set the opening scenes of Ulysses here.

Suburb
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is an area of in , in , . The area consists mainly of former local authority housing built between the late 1940s and the mid-1950s by the Corporation of Dún Laoghaire.

Sandycove

Latitude
53.28595° or 53° 17′ 9″ north
Longitude
-6.11558° or 6° 6′ 56″ west
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IE SDN
Open location code
9C5M7VPM+9Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10712584021
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6691043
Wiki­data ID
Q2672437
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Sandycove” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Sandycove”
  • Chinese: “沙湾”
  • Chinese: “沙灣”
  • Dutch: “Sandycove”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانديكوڤ”
  • French: “Sandycove”
  • Galician: “Sandycove”
  • Hebrew: “סנדיקוב”
  • Irish: “Cuas an Ghainimh”
  • Italian: “Sandycove”
  • Japanese: “サンディコーヴ”
  • Japanese: “サンディコーブ”
  • Maltese: “Sandycove”
  • Russian: “Сандиков”
  • Spanish: “Sandycove”
  • Swedish: “Sandycove”
  • Urdu: “سینڈی کوو”
  • Welsh: “Sandycove”

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