Fortyfoot hole
Mulligan leads Stephen and Haines "down towards the fortyfoot
hole," an ocean swimming spot about one hundred yards from the
Sandycove tower that in 1904 was (as seen in Tindall's
photograph from the 50s) for "gentlemen only." Swimsuits were
optional. Several different accounts of the origins of this
name have circulated, none of them perfectly convincing.
William York Tindall's 1950s photograph of the path to the
swimming hole. Source: The Joyce Country.
2009 photograph of "the creek," looking north-northeast toward
the Howth peninsula, with swimmers faintly visible in the
middle-ground.
Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Another recent photograph of the inlet, looking southeast toward
Dalkey.
Source: www.intangibility.com.
2018 photograph by Giuseppe Milo showing the same scene
at sunrise.
Source: Wikimedia Commons.