Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainOld homes in Sandymount: 19% built before 1919
For Sandymount, that is 6 times the typical town’s share, 3.4%. No building in Sandymount is on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. The Sites and Monuments Record adds 25 archaeological sites inside the town.
typical town: 48
Sandymount from 1900 to 1921
5 old photographs, in date order. All made before 1950.
1900s
c. 1900
1900s
c. 1905
1921From Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server: public domain, or from the National Library of Ireland’s collections (Lawrence, Poole, Eason and others) with no known copyright restrictions. Each credit opens the image’s page.
Archaeology in Sandymount
The Sites and Monuments Record lists every known archaeological site; most are field monuments with little to see. By kind:
25 archaeological sites inside the town
Sites on the Record of Monuments and Places, the statutory list drawn from this record, are protected by law: anyone planning work at or near one must give the National Monuments Service two months’ notice.
| Bridge4 records |
| Settlement cluster2 records |
| Church2 records |
| Graveyard2 records |
| Castle - tower house2 records |
| Gatehouse1 record |
| Building1 record |
| Martello tower1 record |
| Battery1 record |
| Sea wall1 record |
| Signal tower1 record |
| Barracks1 record |
| Burial1 record |
| Ritual site - holy well1 record |
| House - 18th century1 record |
| 3 more kinds3 records |
Little new building in Sandymount: 3% of homes date from 2011 on, against 5.8%
Building in the 2000s fell short in Sandymount: 12%, against 25% in most towns. In most towns 3.9% of homes were built between the wars; in Sandymount, 14%. The period that gave Sandymount the most homes is from 1981 to 2000: 27%.
Census 2022, households by the year their home was built (CSO, Small Area Population Statistics, CC BY 4.0); the typical town is the middle Irish town of 2,500 or more.
10 notable people born in Sandymount before 1900
From John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare (1748) to Henry Crowe (1897): their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Everyone born in Sandymount → Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s English Wikipedia article; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Sandymount and its neighbours
| Town | People | National Inventory | National | Archaeological sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandymount | 22,340 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Ballsbridge | 12,743 | 8 | 0 | 7 |
| Rathmines East | 16,923 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Grand Canal Dock | 8,320 | 320 | 5 | 2 |
| St Stephen's Green | 5,319 | 864 | 40 | 235 |
| Booterstown | 8,505 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Clonskeagh | 14,142 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
Sandymount in brief
Old houses are part of Sandymount’s character: 19% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. William Butler Yeats (1865), Sophie Bryant (1850) and John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare (1748) are among the 10 people born here before 1900. It also has 25 archaeological sites on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The National Inventory. The State’s survey of post-1700 buildings, made county by county since 1990 (NIAH); a few records are older. It records; it does not protect.
- Ratings. International and National: of significance across Ireland or beyond. Regional: in its region. Local and record-only buildings get no page here.
- Archaeology. The Sites and Monuments Record (National Monuments Service) lists known archaeological sites; the national monuments to visit and the sites with an encyclopedia article get pages here.
- Protection. Both registers are surveys, not protection: a building is protected by its council’s Record of Protected Structures, and no national open list joins the 31 councils’ records.
- The grade. Ireland’s History grade is not built yet: the page describes, and gives no grade.
Questions about Sandymount’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Sandymount?
0 buildings on the National Inventory, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
Are there archaeological sites in Sandymount?
Yes: the Sites and Monuments Record lists 25 archaeological sites inside Sandymount.
How old are the homes in Sandymount?
19% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town.
Are the buildings on this page protected?
Being on the National Inventory or the Sites and Monuments Record is a record, not protection by itself: buildings are protected by their council’s Record of Protected Structures, which each council keeps and no national open list gathers, so this page can’t say which are on it.
This page describes its history; it gives no grade.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata (CC0).
Sources: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie) · Sites and Monuments Record and the National Monuments Service’s monuments to visit · CSO Census 2022 (homes by the year built) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, including the National Library of Ireland’s collections, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata and English Wikipedia for people born here · Wikidata (CC0) for other names and articles. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).