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.

Coney Island

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.

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. Ballincar is situated 4 km east of Oyster Island.

Oyster Island

Type: Islet
Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
Location: County Sligo, Connacht, Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.3018° or 54° 18′ 7″ north

Longitude

-8.56573° or 8° 33′ 57″ west

Elevation

5 metres (16 feet)

Open location code

9C6H8C2M+PP

OpenStreetMap ID

way 177598809

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=coastline

OpenStreetMap feature

place=islet

GeoNames ID

3311186

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