ABSTRACT
sandymount castle, dublin When the poet's family were living at 'Georgeville', 1865-66, this 'castle' nearby was owned by Robert Corbet, the poet's great-uncle, J.B. Yeats had lived there when an undergraduate at Trinity College, sometimes rehearsing Greek plays in the drawingroom, and now the poet himself was wheeled in his pram in the extensive grounds. The castle was an eighteenth-century house, gothicized beyond recognition by Abbotsford-type battlements, tower and cloister. The gardens were large (five gardeners) and it was landscaped in the eighteenth-century manner by Robert Corbet, with vistas to the sea, a lake and a small deer park. After Corbet's death it was sold. The poet visited it again in 1900, but could scarcely recognize the grounds. It has now been built on, forming part of the seaside suburb of Sandymount.
