Sandymount Avenue

Coordinates: 53°19′42″N 6°13′11″W / 53.328363°N 6.219648°W / 53.328363; -6.219648
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Sandymount Avenue (Irish: Ascaill Dhumhach Thrá) 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.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ Boylan, Henry (1998). A Dictionary of Irish Biography, 3rd Edition. Dublin: Gill and MacMillan. p. 454. ISBN 0-7171-2945-4.

53°19′42″N 6°13′11″W / 53.328363°N 6.219648°W / 53.328363; -6.219648