Forty Foot

[6] Others have attempted to link it to the 40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot, who supposedly bathed there, but they were stationed at Richmond Barracks in Inchicore.

[7][8][9][10] At first, it was exclusively a male bathing place, and Sandycove Bathers Association, a men's swimming club was established.

[3] On 24 July 1974, about a dozen female equal-rights activists ("Dublin City Women’s Invasion Force") went swimming, and sat with placards.

In 2014, the Sandycove Bathers Association ended the ban on women club members,[11] and they may now use the onsite changing rooms and clubhouse kitchen.

The Forty Foot also featured in the novels At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (1939), At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill (2001) and Nessuna notizia dello scrittore scomparso by Daniele Bresciani (2017).

Forty Foot changing rooms and clubhouse kitchen, 2008
Sunrise at the Forty Foot, 2018