Rosses Point

Rosses Point is a parking area in , . Rosses Point is situated nearby to the ruins , as well as near the building .

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Oyster Island Lighthouse and Sligo Bay Lifeboat Station.

Lighthouse
Photo: Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is situated 770 metres south of Rosses Point.

Building
Photo: Willie Duffin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is located at , a small village at the head of the Rosses Point Peninsula, at the entrance to , approximately 7.5 kilometres north-west of the town of in , . is situated 460 metres south of Rosses Point.

Island
or Inishmulclohy is an island in , 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 Carney.

Photo: Gerry Gallagher, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in 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.

Locality
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village on the Maugherow Peninsula in , . It is 8 km north of town. is situated 4½ km northeast of Rosses Point.

Photo: T0mt0m42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village in , 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.

Rosses Point

Latitude
54.30879° or 54° 18′ 32″ north
Longitude
-8.57077° or 8° 34′ 15″ west
Open location code
9C6H8C5H+GM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 894531794
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­parking
Open­Street­Map attribute
parking=­surface
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