Ned’s Point
Ned’s Point is a parking area in County Donegal, Ulster. Ned’s Point is situated nearby to the building Lough Swilly Lifeboat Station, as well as near Porthaw Beach.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ned’s Point Fort and Lough Swilly Lifeboat Station.
Ned’s Point Fort
Fort
Photo: Paddyhickey, Public domain.
Ned's Point Fort is one of several Napoleonic batteries built along the shores of Lough Swilly in county Donegal, to defend the north west of Ireland. It was part of a scheme to fortify Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle against French Invasion during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Lough Swilly Lifeboat Station
Building
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lough Swilly Lifeboat Station is located next to Ned's Point Fort in Buncrana, a town and former naval port, which sits on the eastern shore of Lough Swilly, on the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal, on the north coast of Ireland The lifeboat station at Buncrana was first established as an Inshore lifeboat station in 1988 by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
Buncrana Castle
Castle
Photo: AFBorchert, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Buncrana Castle is situated 630 metres east of Ned’s Point.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buncrana and Fahan.
Buncrana
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Buncrana is a town on Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal, on the shores of Lough Swilly. The main reason to come is to explore Inishowen Peninsula, the northern tip of the Irish mainland.
Fahan
Village
Photo: Alistair Cunningham, CC BY 3.0.
Fahan is a district of Inishowen in the north of County Donegal, Ireland, located 5 km south of Buncrana. In Irish, Fahan is named after its patron saint, Saint Mura, first abbot of Fahan, an early Christian monastery. Fahan is situated 6 km south of Ned’s Point.
Rathmullan
Village
Photo: Donald MacDonald, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rathmullan is a seaside village and townland on the Fanad Peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland. It is situated on the western shore of Lough Swilly, 11 kilometres north-east of Ramelton and 12 km east of Milford. Rathmullan is situated 7 km southwest of Ned’s Point.
Ned’s Point
- Type: Parking area
- Parking: surface
- Category: transportation
- Location: County Donegal, Ulster, Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.14089° or 55° 8′ 27″ northLongitude
-7.47383° or 7° 28′ 26″ westOpen location code
9C7J4GRG+9FOpenStreetMap ID
way 1029202393OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=parkingOpenStreetMap attribute
parking=surface
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