Children put their buckets and spades to work building sandcastles on Sandymount Strand.

The children were busy digging, sculpting and modelling their sand works. Equipped with buckets and spades, castles some of which included moats, were adorned with flags, shells and stones.

Building Sandcastles on Sandymount Strand, 1968
Building Sandcastles on Sandymount Strand, 1968
Building Sandcastles on Sandymount Strand, 1968
Building Sandcastles on Sandymount Strand, 1968
Building Sandcastles on Sandymount Strand, 1968
Onlookers on Sandymount Strand as sandcastles are built, 1968

An RTÉ News report broadcast on 21 July 1968. The footage shown here is mute.

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