Sandymount Avenue, Dublin
Encyclopedia
Sandymount Avenue joins Merrion Road to Gilford Road in Sandymount
, Dublin. Sandymount railway station
is located roughly halfway along it at a level crossing
. It is a residential area.
W.B. Yeats
, the Nobel Prize
-winning poet, was born here. A plaque now marks his birthplace.
Sandymount
Sandymount is a coastal seaside suburb in Dublin 4 on the Southside of Dublin in Ireland. It is in the Dublin South East Dáil constituency and the East Pembroke Ward. It was once part of Pembroke Township, which took its name from the fact that this area was part of the estate of the Earl of...
, Dublin. Sandymount railway station
Sandymount railway station
Sandymount railway station serves Sandymount and Ballsbridge in Dublin, Ireland. The station is staffed seven days a week and has two platforms, both fully accessible via ramps....
is located roughly halfway along it at a level crossing
Level crossing
A level crossing occurs where a railway line is intersected by a road or path onone level, without recourse to a bridge or tunnel. It is a type of at-grade intersection. The term also applies when a light rail line with separate right-of-way or reserved track crosses a road in the same fashion...
. It is a residential area.
W.B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...
, the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
-winning poet, was born here. A plaque now marks his birthplace.