Sydney Parade Avenue Sandymount

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 4

Dublin 4

Dublin 4 is a postal district of Dublin, Ireland including the suburbs of Sandymount, Ballsbridge, Donnybrook, Ringsend and Irishtown on the South side of Dublin....

, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

 runs from the land formerly known as Ailesbury Park opposite the Merrion Centre at the Merrion Road

Merrion Road

Merrion Road in Dublin 4 is a road which runs from the RDS at Anglesea Road in Ballsbridge to Merrion, where it meets the Rock Road, Booterstown. It is home to the RDS, some well known hotels and is part of the Embassy Belt....

 end, to the sea of Dublin Bay

Dublin Bay

Dublin Bay is a C-shaped inlet of the Irish Sea on the east coast of Ireland. The bay is about 10 kilometres wide along its north-south base, and 7 km in length to its apex at the centre of the city of Dublin; stretching from Howth Head in the north to Dalkey Point in the south...

 at the Strand Road.
Ailesbury Road

Ailesbury Road

Ailesbury Road , Dublin 4, Ireland, is a tree-lined avenue linking Sydney Parade Station on Sydney Parade Avenue and the Church of the Sacred Heart, Donnybrook....

 joins Sydney Parade at the DART

Dublin Area Rapid Transit

The Dublin Area Rapid Transit is part of the suburban railway network in Ireland, running mainly along the coastline of Dublin Bay on the Trans-Dublin route, from Greystones in County Wicklow, through Dublin to Howth and Malahide in County Dublin.Trains are powered via a 1500V DC overhead catenary...

 station known as Sydney Parade railway station

Sydney Parade railway station

Sydney Parade Railway Station is located at Sydney Parade Avenue in Sandymount, Dublin 4, Ireland.The station opened in January 1835 as a halt on the Dublin and Kingstown Railway. In 1852, it was upgraded to a full station with the construction of shelters, stone platforms, and a footbridge.The...

, originally opened in January 1835. Other side roads off the avenue include

• Richelieu Park, a cul-de-sac
  Cul-de-sac
  A cul-de-sac is a word of French origin referring to a dead end, close, no through road or court meaning dead-end street with only one inlet/outlet...
  
  
• Ailesbury Park,
• Ailesbury Gardens, which joins with
• St. Alban's Park, and
• Park Avenue, the road to Sandymount
  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...
  
   village.

The Ailesbury Park end of the avenue has been closed to road traffic, since the 1980s.

Literary Connection

In A Painful Case

A Painful Case

"A Painful Case" is a short story by Irish author James Joyce, published in his 1914 collection Dubliners.-The story:Mr. Duffy, a middle-aged bank cashier, deliberately lives in an isolated suburb of Dublin. He is characterized as very meticulous and ordered and has little social contact. At a...

 by James Joyce

James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...

, Mr. and Mrs. Sinico lived in a house called Leoville on Sydney Parade Avenue.