Sandycove: the James Joyce Tower and the Forty Foot
The tower where Ulysses opens, the famous bathing place, and the seafront to the harbour. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. The James Joyce Tower & Museum
The Martello tower on the point where Ulysses opens — 'Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead.' Joyce stayed here six nights in 1904 as the guest of Oliver St John Gogarty. It's free to go up. Climb to the gun platform on the roof for the view Mulligan had over the bay.

2. The Forty Foot
Below the tower, the *Forty Foot* — the bathing place where men swam (traditionally naked, traditionally men-only, now open to all) for two hundred years. People plunge in here on Christmas morning and most other mornings too. You don't have to swim; just watch the regulars go down the steps as if it were nothing.

3. Sandycove harbour and beach
Round the point to the little sheltered harbour and its crescent of sand — calmer, gentler water than the Forty Foot, the spot families use. A good place to sit before the seafront walk north begins.

4. Scotsman's Bay promenade
The long curved promenade north toward Dún Laoghaire, with the bay open on your right and the granite harbour piers ahead. This is the seafront the whole town walks; sea swimmers, dog walkers, the lot. Stay on the sea side.

5. The Dún Laoghaire Baths
The redeveloped seafront baths on the approach to the harbour, once a grand Victorian sea-bathing complex. The view out over the water toward Howth across the bay is the reason to pause here.

6. Dún Laoghaire harbour and the DART
End at the harbour mouth, where the East Pier begins and the DART station is a minute inland. If there's time, walk the East Pier out and back before the train — but the walk is complete the moment you reach the harbour.

Sandycove: the James Joyce Tower and the Forty Foot