Newbridge Avenue (Irish: Ascaill an Droichid Nua) is a road in the Sandymount district of Dublin which links Herbert Road and Tritonville Road.

Newbridge Avenue
The New Bridge crossing the Dodder
Newbridge Avenue is located in Dublin
Newbridge Avenue
Native nameAscaill an Droichid Nua (Irish)
Former name(s)Haig's Lane, New Bridge Avenue[1]
NamesakeThe new stone bridge over the River Dodder
Length290 m (950 ft)
Width15.3 metres (50 ft)
LocationSandymount, Dublin, Ireland
Postal codeD04
Coordinates53°20′07″N 6°13′25″W / 53.335365°N 6.22368°W / 53.335365; -6.22368
northeast endTritonville Road
southwest endLansdowne Road, Herbert Road
Other
Known forUlysses

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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  1. ^ a b Meyler, Walter Thomas (10 March 1868). "Saint Catherine's bells: : an autobiography". London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ; Dublin: : Robert S. M'Gee, 35 Lower Sackville Street; and all booksellers – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman (1989), Ulysses Annotated, p. 105, ISBN 978-0-520-06745-5
  3. ^ Clive Hart, Leo Knuth (1975), A Topographical Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses, ISBN 9780950414812
  4. ^ Robert Martin Adams (1962), Surface and Symbol, Oxford University Press, p. 61
  5. ^ Douglas Bennett (1991), Encyclopaedia of Dublin, p. 145, ISBN 978-0-7171-1599-0
  6. ^ Weston St. John Joyce, Patrick Weston Joyce (1913), The Neighbourhood of Dublin: Its Topography, Antiquities and Historical Associations
  7. ^ Tom Kennedy (1980), Victorian Dublin, ISBN 9780906002056
  8. ^ Donnybrook five-bed makes €3.66 million, Irish Times, 3 March 2006