Fortyfoot

Fortyfoot is a toponym that may refer to more than one place. The spelling appears as a one-word variant of the better-known Forty Foot, a historic public seawater bathing area in Dublin Bay. The Dublin site lies at Sandycove, near Dalkey and Dun Laoghaire, and has served generations of swimmers and divers; it is noted for its rough Atlantic waters and cultural associations with James Joyce. The name's origin is not definitively documented; in the Dublin context it is commonly linked to the site's deep water or a historic depth measurement, but no authoritative source confirms this.

Beyond Dublin, there are no widely recognized places officially named Fortyfoot in major gazetteers. In some cases, the term may appear informally or in one-word spellings on local signs or maps as a variant of Forty Foot, or refer to a small neighborhood, road, or estate that is not widely published.

Because of the ambiguity, many references use the separated form Forty Foot for the well-known bathing place in Dublin, while Fortyfoot remains a less common variant that may require disambiguation.