Ox Peninsula
| Ox Peninsula | ||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 33 '36 " N , 9 ° 58' 55" W | |
| Waters 1 | Atlantic Ocean | |
The small Ox Peninsula ( Irish Damhros - German "Ochs foreland" ) west of Letterfrack in the west of Connemara in Ireland's County Galway is forked. Dawros Beg ( Irish Damhros Beag - German "Small Dawros" ) is the name of the western arm, the other area is called Dawros More ( Irish Damhros Mór - German "Big Dawros" ). The peninsula is a hiker's paradise. The small island of Roeillaun ( Irish Rua-oileán -German "red island" ) in Ballynakill Harbor .
Dawros Beg
The “Ballynakill Harbor” inlet has been used by oyster fishermen since the 1650s . At the beginning of the 20th century the fishing grounds were exploited. The entire area is still home to the relics of oyster fishing. On Dawros Beg there are oyster ponds. They were built in 1871 by the West Ireland Oyster and Fish Company, which went bankrupt in 1875 and exported oysters to England. An attempt was made to resume fishing in the 1910s, but World War I prevented success. The gray pond is a lagoon that has been separated from the sea by a dam to raise European lobsters . It was probably originally an oyster pond owned by Mitchell Henry, who rented the Ballynakill oyster beds in 1878.
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Roeillaun Island
The, as the name suggests, reddish island is a tidal island accessible on foot at low tide. In the abandoned houses at the eastern end there are sleeping niches in the walls near the hearth . A quartz vein near the coast could be the place of origin of white menhirs , like the menhir of Garraunbaun ( Irish An Garrán Bán ), which stands on a hill above Ballynakill Harbor.
Dawros More
Dawros More is bounded by the Dawros River , which is part of the famous salmon and sea trout fishery at Kylemore Abbey . The holy spring surrounded by stones in the east is connected to St. Ceannanach, one of the first missionaries in West Ireland. Lochán na hOinsi in the north is the lake of the foolish woman and the 41 m high Cnoc an Iolra is the hill of the eagle.
literature
- Paul Gosling: Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. 1 - West Galway Dublin 1993