Residential

Make your mark on this secluded four-bed Sandymount home

This 1930s property in South Dublin is in need of modernisation but offers plenty of potential for renovation and expansion

DNG Donnybrook is guiding €1.2 million for 12 St Alban’s Park, Sandymount

Every day is a learning day. In researching the derivation of the name Sandymount in the affluent, Dublin 4 coastal suburb of South Dublin, it transpires that during the 18th century there was a village called Brickfield Town on the site of Sandymount Green, so named from Lord Merrion’s brickfields, which stretched from the village to Merrion at the time. The prettier moniker, Sandymount, came later from the English translation of Dumhach Thrá, Irish for ...