It is excellent for night navigation, sheltered but with strong tides. That said, it is a busy, well marked and well lit area. ![]() There are large areas of mudflats on the east side. The whole lough is less interesting inwards to the SW. Expect caravans, lifeguards, and beach casting anglers. However, the beach surfs and there is a strong tidal drift. There is a concrete slip across the beach. Accurate information for those passing the firing range can now be obtained from CANI.įurther to the east, beyond the military zone, there is public access at about C717-363. Especially beware of the military zone on the beach immediately to the east of the point, Benone Beach, on which it’s better not to land (certainly not while firing is going on). The whole region is a security area, frequently patrolled. Access is by the B202 past the prison and rifle range. The logical embarkation point for the outer regions of Lough Foyle is Magilligan Point on the east side, by the Martello Tower. Military installations on both sides show the importance of the lough in such terms. Fishery regulation is shared as a stop gap, but on the water, one might be stopped by the authorities of either side, anywhere in the lough. The day to day practical arrangements resulting from this inertia tend towards proving the ancient adage that “where everyone is in charge, nobody is in charge”. ![]() While the two relevant parties split Carlingford Lough down the middle and each “own”, regulate and administer their respective halves out to the median line, no such arrangement was ever come to for Lough Foyle, where each side claims the entire lough as far as the opposite bank, 100 years after the issue first arose. This lough between counties Derry and Donegal and Carlingford Lough to the SE between counties Down and Louth are the only two sea boundaries between the two legal jurisdictions on the island of Ireland. Ruddock’s excellent publication North Coast Sea Kayak Trail Guide now published on-line at, the text of which is almost entirely subsumed into this work, including the same information utilising user-friendly maps, symbols and historical and environmental information. The writing of this section of the guide was greatly assisted by referring to Robin G. Just click, and then scroll in ……….Īs an example, in Dublin, Dun Laoghaire Harbour O245-293. Now, newly since 2022, all OSI Grid-References in the soft-copy text below, hyperlink directly to the place or feature described. Oileáin has always used OSI Grid-References, not Lat/Long.
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