The New Bridge crossing the Dodder | |
Native name | Ascaill an Droichid Nua (Irish) |
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Former name(s) | Haig's Lane, New Bridge Avenue [1] |
Namesake | The new stone bridge over the River Dodder |
Length | 290 m (950 ft) |
Width | 15.3 metres (50 ft) |
Location | Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland |
Postal code | D04 |
Coordinates | 53°20′07″N6°13′25″W / 53.335365°N 6.22368°W |
northeast end | Tritonville Road |
southwest end | Lansdowne Road, Herbert Road |
Other | |
Known for | Ulysses |
Newbridge Avenue (Irish : Ascaill an Droichid Nua) is a road in the Sandymount district of Dublin which links Herbert Road and Tritonville Road.
In the novel Ulysses, the funeral of the character Paddy Dignam starts here at number 9 and continues on to Glasnevin Cemetery via Tritonville Road. [2] [3] The Dignams were said to live at number 9; the property was, in reality, vacant in 1904. [4]
Both this road and Herbert Road were built across land which once belonged to Haigs' distillery and so it used to be called Haig's Lane; the foundations of the Avenue were constructed with stone which originally came from the Dodderbank Distillery. [5] The distillery fields at this location featured in the sensational murder of the Reverend George Wogan in 1826. [6] A new stone bridge replaced the old wooden toll bridge in the mid-19th century, giving the road the name of "New Bridge Avenue." [1] Construction of houses upon this land then took place in the 1860s. [7]
Due to the Irish property bubble of recent times, properties on this road have risen greatly in value and, in 2006, a house was sold for €2M. [8]
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