NW Ireland & Lakelands
Connacht
County Sligo

Waiting on Shore

Waiting on Shore is a memorial in , . Waiting on Shore is situated nearby to the ruins , as well as near the building .
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sligo Bay Lifeboat Station and Oyster Island Lighthouse.

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 , .

Lighthouse
Photo: Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is situated 440 metres southwest of Waiting on Shore.

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 Strandhill.

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.

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.

Hamlet
is a small village and townland in , Ireland. The townland is in the civil parish of , and has an area of approximately 1.6 square kilometres. is situated 4½ km east of Waiting on Shore.

Waiting on Shore

Latitude
54.30524° or 54° 18′ 19″ north
Longitude
-8.5675° or 8° 34′ 3″ west
Open location code
9C6H8C4M+32
Open­Street­Map ID
way 304400784
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Elsinore House and Yeats Country Hotel, Spa & Leisure Club.

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Explore places such as Rose Garden and Erwins sea angling and boat charters.

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