[1] The Irish name Dumhach Thrá is more recent than the one in English and approximately translates as sandy ground or sand dune of a beach.

The River Dodder passes nearby to the west, and three streams, the Elm Park, Nutley and Trimleston, come to the coast to the south, but any pollution of these affects Sandymount Strand.

The pier featured a bandstand halfway along it and summer concerts were regularly held there for many years.

About halfway along the strand is the Sandymount Martello tower, part of a system of defences built to warn of an invasion by Napoleon.

The restaurant never opened, leaving the tower with the modified window, and landscaped exterior abandoned on the strand.

A popular tavern existed close to Sandymount Green in the eighteenth century named The Conniving House.

[7] Opened in 1725, it became famous for its fish and ale and became a popular venue for music in the locality and wider city.

[8] Although the verb 'connive' has negative connotations in modern English, at the time of the tavern's establishment it was used to indicate "a subversive indulgence of that which one ought to oppose"[8] as the venue allowed an opportunity for interaction between the 'high' (or elite) musical culture in the city and what was perceived as 'lower' vernacular musical culture.

[8] Such was its renown in the mid-eighteenth century, that it was depicted in John Rocque's 1757 map entitled A Survey of the City, Harbour, Bay and Environs of Dublin on the same Scale as those of London, Paris & Rome.

Other writers of the period, such as Laurence Whyte and Charles Coffey, recorded an energetic native musical culture in the venue.

[12] The houses along the south side of the green are part of what once was Sandymount Castle and the roads behind this bear the name.

[citation needed] Poolbeg parkrun takes place every Saturday at 9:30[14] at Sean Moore Park.

The following people were born in Sandymount: The following live or have lived in Sandymount: Sandymount Strand is the most famous beach in Irish fiction, James Joyce based two episodes of his epic novel Ulysses here: On the morning of Bloomsday, in the Proteus episode, Stephen Dedalus wanders "into eternity" on the strand; later the same day, Leopold Bloom sits on a rock and watches while young Gertie lifts her skirt as Bloom pleasures himself.