Coney Island
Coney Island or Inishmulclohy is an island in Sligo Bay, Ireland. It lies across the mouth of Sligo Harbour, between Rosses Point and the Coolera Peninsula, and can be reached from the latter via a tidal causeway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in County Sligo, Ireland
- Also known as: “Coney Island, County Sligo”, “Coney Island, Ireland”, “Inish Mulclohy”, and “Inishmulclohy”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oyster Island Lighthouse and Killaspugbrone.
Killaspugbrone
Cemetery
Killaspugbrone is an early Christian church on the coast west of Sligo town and near the modern resort of Strandhill. Known as Caiseal Irrae in the earliest references.
Sligo Bay Lifeboat Station
Building
Photo: Willie Duffin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sligo Bay Lifeboat Station is located at Rosses Point, a small village at the head of the Rosses Point Peninsula, at the entrance to Sligo Bay, approximately 7.5 kilometres north-west of the town of Sligo in County Sligo, Ireland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rosses Point and Strandhill.
Rosses Point
Photo: Gerry Gallagher, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rosses Point is a village in County Sligo with a population of 900 in 2022. It's a fishing village at the outflow of Sligo Bay, and "Ross" means the peninsula between that and Drumcliffe Bay further north.
Strandhill
Photo: T0mt0m42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Strandhill is a village in County Sligo, 9 km west of Sligo town on the south shore of the bay, with a population in 2022 of 2000. Its name is apt: a great expanse of strand before it and a steep hill behind, the scarp of Knocknarea.
Ballincar
Hamlet
Ballincar is a small village and townland in County Sligo, Ireland. The townland is in the civil parish of Drumcliff, and has an area of approximately 1.6 square kilometres.
Coney Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: County Sligo, Connacht, Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.29613° or 54° 17′ 46″ northLongitude
-8.58804° or 8° 35′ 17″ westElevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
9C6H7CW6+FQOpenStreetMap ID
way 87357581OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
2965240Wikidata ID
Q5159583
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Manx—“Coney Island” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Coney Island”
- Breton: “Inis Uí Mhaolchluiche”
- Dutch: “Coney Island, Ireland”
- German: “Inishmulclohy”
- Irish: “Inis Uí Mhaolchluiche”
- Italian: “Coney Island”
- Manx: “Inis Uí Mhaolchluiche”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Srunamoyle and Deadman’s Point.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Metal Man and Doonanpatrick Island.
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