The flow of the river is controlled by floodgates well upstream. Especially when the river is up, the ebb and the flow of the river combine to produce mighty standing waves.
The flood at the mouth is weak by comparison to the ebb. Turbulent water can be experienced quite a distance offshore. To the east of Castlerock village is the Bar Mouth, where the River Bann flows into the sea. Tides flow strongly at the headlands but there are usable eddies between. The tides are complex, particularly around Rathlin and should be studied carefully. On the north coast, the tide generally turns west at Belfast HW and east at Belfast LW. There is good access and parking at Castlerock village itself at C774-362, where there is parking and toilets at the beach access point. Fulmar and Kittiwake thrive on the sewerage outfall. The rocky area to the east of the prominent Mussenden Temple at C758-362 is loose basalt, eroded to provide caves and arches. Parking and toilets are beside the apartments and access is by a stream through an archway under the railway. The Downhill Hotel was closed and demolished. There is public access at the extreme east end of Benone Beach at a point called Downhill Strand. 36 were ransomed and the rest were put to death. Surrounded by English soldiers they eventually surrendered. The Trinidad Valencera hit a reef of Inishowen and came ashore East of Lough Foyle. The ebb begins an hour earlier at Magilligan Point. Moville HW is about 4.00 before Belfast, more in springs and less in neaps. Eddies on the Donegal side run from Warren Point to Moville and are usable on both flood and ebb. Rates of 3.5kn should not be treated lightly. The sea is much more exposed beyond the head.įierce tides push through the narrows. The Donegal shore gets the more interesting up towards Inishowen Head at C686-439. Greencastle at C648-400 lies directly across from Magilligan Point. Road access is better on the Donegal side and there are nice secluded beaches. If paddling up into the city, it is possible to take out at Prehen Boat Club upstream of the Craigavon Bridge on the east bank. 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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