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Forty Foot changing rooms and clubhouse kitchen, 2008 Sunrise at the Forty Foot, 2018. The Forty Foot (Irish: Cladach an Daichead Troigh) [1] is a promontory on the southern tip of Dublin Bay at Sandycove, County Dublin, Ireland, from which people have been swimming in the Irish Sea all year round for some 250 years.
The Taoiseach said negatives experiences are not the norm in the Irish capital.
Scotland [e] is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjacent islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles.
Dublin [A] is the capital city of Ireland. [11] [12] On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range.
15 June – Five women swam a relay of the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland, starting in 11.8 °C water from Donaghadee and reaching Portpatrick. Afric Creedon, Jackie O'Connor, Karen Molloy, Orla Colreavy, and Siobhán O'Driscoll took half a day to swim a curved 42.2 kilometre route whose course was shaped by the tide. [200]
On John Rocque's 1756 map of Dublin, the area shows market gardening and some industrial activity. [2] The street was later named Montgomery Street after the wife of Luke Gardiner, Elizabeth Montgomery. [3] [4] It is from this street name that the name of the historical red light district, the Monto, was derived. [5]
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A 1686 map of Dublin Bay by Greenvile Collins gives the name as Dun Lerroy. A later map from 1728 shows a small fishing village at the old harbour, marked as Dunlary or in other later maps as Dunleary. [7] The earlier village was around the area where the Purty Kitchen pub is now (sometimes mapped as "Old Dunleary").