Geograph IrelandLatest Images by Joseph McGinley
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2024-03-28T20:52:46+00:00text/html2014-05-06T00:47:13+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/97765Joseph McGinley53.152142 -8.935827M3711 : Unmarked Beach Track
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The photo shows a very clear trackway, approximately 1.2m wide. This is a commonly recurring feature all along the shoreline of Inner Galway Bay. I've only visited at low tide, so I can only guess from the flora that it is above the mean high water level, but would get covered by some tides. Strangely, it doesn't seem to be marked on any OS maps, old or new.text/html2014-04-29T13:51:14+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/97765Joseph McGinley53.186330 -8.941807M3715 : Karst flags in Ringeelaun
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text/html2014-04-29T12:59:27+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/97765?a=Jessica+HynesJessica Hynes53.190904 -9.008783M3216 : Fishing at the Western tip of Island Eddy
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This photo shows two men fishing from the beach at the Western extremity of Island Eddy. For the record, this is not a good fishing spot. This photo was taken about an hour before mid-tide [on an incoming spring tide].text/html2014-04-29T12:52:43+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/97765?a=Jessica+HynesJessica Hynes53.191540 -9.007900M3216 : Clayey cliff on Island Eddy
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This type of clayey cliff face is a common feature on any relatively exposed headlands around the innermost part of Galway Bay. While the example here on Island Eddy is also primarily sandy/clayey, it is much more stony than other examples to the North, at Ballabristy, Tawin, Roscam, Ballyloughane, Blake's Hill, and Gentian Hill.
The photo was taken around the mid point of the tide.text/html2014-04-29T12:43:08+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/97765?a=Jessica+HynesJessica Hynes53.192556 -9.004632M3216 : Beach in the westernmost segment of Island Eddy
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This stony beach is at the most exposed part of the coast of Island Eddy. It falls relatively steeply, and has relatively little seaweed. The dark lateral feature is some elevated pasture land, with its dry-stone boundary wall. In the distance are the distinctive hills of the Burren.text/html2014-04-29T12:33:08+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/97765Joseph McGinley53.194341 -8.995398M3316 : Mearing Stone 10 on Island Eddy
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This "Mearing Stone" is one of several on Island Eddy. Seaweed was an important fertilizer in times gone by, and the strand was divided into sections of equal area; with the right to gather seaweed in each section being assigned to one family.
This is one of only a few coastal mearing stones still in situ.text/html2014-04-29T12:22:52+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/97765?a=Jessica+HynesJessica Hynes53.194399 -8.988367M3316 : Not completely abandoned
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In the foreground is a long abandoned mower [by 'Bamford and sons, of Uttoxeter'].
In the background, three healthy-looking horses show that although the island is no longer inhabited by people, it is very much still in use.
The dry stone boundary walls may be hundreds of years old.text/html2014-04-29T12:04:23+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/97765?a=Jessica+HynesJessica Hynes53.195045 -8.964442M3516 : Causeway to Island Eddy exposed by spring tide
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/3954491
Island Eddy is joined to Killeenaran peninsula by a causeway which is only exposed at certain spring tides. It is well known amongst local people that the most extreme spring tides tend to occur around the equinoxes. The photo shows lots of local people taking advantage of the Spring tide on 2nd March 2014, to enjoy a leisurely walk to the island [and back].text/html2013-08-01T14:39:21+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/97765Joseph McGinley53.251410 -8.983237M3422 : View from Leadmine Hill
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View along the coast towards Renville Point from 'Leadmine Hill'. One of the 3 holes in this lead mine is visible in the foreground.text/html2013-06-18T14:18:42+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/97765Joseph McGinley53.260381 -8.940435M3723 : Bellanabradaun estuary
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Looking out at Rusheen Point at low tide, over the estuary of the Bellanabradaun river; from the shoreline behind a modern residential area named 'Oran Island'.
The scaffolding seems to be used for maintaining this old looking wall. The seaweed at the top of the scaffolding suggests it might have been there for a long time.
The bed of the estuary here alternates between mud, and rocks covered by seaweed.text/html2013-06-18T14:09:20+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/97765Joseph McGinley53.263243 -9.008086M3224 : Rabbit island, from Ballyloughane
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Rabbit island an hour after low tide. The foreground shows the stony beach. The lowest part of the beach is larger rocks, covered in seaweed. There's a little bit of sand there too. Higher up, the beach is of pebbles, with strata of dried seaweed showing previous high tides.text/html2013-06-18T13:58:52+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/97765Joseph McGinley53.263802 -8.984271M3424 : Bullaun stone in Roscam
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One of two bullaun stones in the old cemetery in Roscam. This stone has three bullauns, and it stands vertically. In the background is the stone wall separating the old cemetery from the pasture land which surrounds it completely.text/html2013-06-18T13:48:53+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/97765Joseph McGinley53.268556 -8.996071M3324 : Murrough estuaris
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/3515775
At low tide, the sandy bed of this bay between the townlands of Murrough and Roscam becomes exposed, revealing the river that springs from just below the high water mark, as shown in the 25" OS maps.
This photo was taken at low tide. On the left, we see the exposed sandy bed of the bay. On the right is the sea. The foreground shows the seaweed-covered rocky outcrop from which the photo is taken. In the distance can be seen the green grass growing on the headland that is Roscam.text/html2013-06-18T13:27:25+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/97765Joseph McGinley53.263941 -8.978279M3424 : Roscam Seashore
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The stony shore at Roscam. This photo taken at low tide. Note how the upper beach [rarely covered by water] has bare stones, but the lower beach [covered and uncovered by every tide] is covered in seaweed.text/html2013-06-17T16:49:46+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/97765Joseph McGinley53.213271 -8.977275M3418 : Shanmullen Channel
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Looking North through Shanmullen Channel, shortly before a low spring tide.