The Lough is mostly frozen over

deRanged · 08-01-2009 11:13am #1

I went up to see if it really was frozen.

It is! More photos and some videos here.

Pity it's not thick enough to skate on.

Oafley Jones · 08-01-2009 11:20am

deRanged wrote: »

I went up to see if it really was frozen.

It is! More photos and some videos here.

Pity it's not thick enough to skate on.

Must go up and have a look after work. The last time this happened I must have been about 6 or 7 years old.

Dimitri · 08-01-2009 11:22am

No doubt someone will try. Years ago when my mother was small herself and her friend decided to walk on it when it was frozen over and my mother fell through, left her with rhumathoid arthritis. But ya never know maybe it will be thick enough someday with all the global warming etc.

center15 · 08-01-2009 11:31am

cool pics!

RubyXI · 08-01-2009 11:31am

deRanged wrote: »

I went up to see if it really was frozen.

It is! More photos and some videos here.

Pity it's not thick enough to skate on.

Can't open the vids?

Heisenberg. · 08-01-2009 11:51am

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gimmick · 08-01-2009 12:46pm

Last tiem I saw it so frozen that people could walk on it was in about 1986/7. It was great. Must swing by later on and feeds the swans.

Tirabaralla · 08-01-2009 2:17pm

Sigh...I am sick and i can't go out

anyway...really nice pictures and...where is the Lough? lol

Recon · 08-01-2009 3:50pm

Went up during lunch with the girlfriend, looks really cool up there. You'd be tempted to go for a walk on it...or at least throw a small child out on it...

bill_ashmount · 08-01-2009 4:35pm

Class, it's over 20 years since I've last seen it freeze over. Happy days skating on it with my dog, while loads of others ran around like lunatics playing ball. Even a few people used to cycle on it.

Heisenberg. · 08-01-2009 4:53pm

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BeansMeansHynes · 09-01-2009 11:59pm

Love the pics

dh0661 · 10-01-2009 10:23pm

Lovely pics there - I hope you all brought some bread or other food to feed all those swans & ducks.

Tirabaralla · 10-01-2009 10:33pm

Sorry for asking again but...would you please explain-me how to reach the Lough? (I'd love to go there tomorrow and I have no car, livin near Shandon)

Go raibh mile maith agat!

parasite · 10-01-2009 11:03pm

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2482508

Tirabaralla · 10-01-2009 11:07pm

Thanks a milion!
Now I know which is THE Lough in Cork! I was there once, also

Thanks again!

D-Generate · 11-01-2009 1:54pm

Woah?! I thought the Lough was a Cork institution and everyone knew where it was. Every kid in Cork has gone feeding swans and duckys there! Its up there with the shakey bridge in Fitzgeralds Park as being a thing every Cork kid has visited.

Cool_CM · 11-01-2009 2:21pm

D-Generate wrote: »

Its up there with the shakey bridge in Fitzgeralds Park as being a thing every Cork kid has visited.

Good old shakey bridge, and it's not just for kids!

Faith · 11-01-2009 3:34pm

The shaky bridge is damn scary!

Tirabaralla · 11-01-2009 4:01pm

D-Generate wrote: »

Woah?! I thought the Lough was ved loa Cork institution and everyone knew where it was. Every kid in Cork has gone feeding swans and duckys there! Its up there with the shakey bridge in Fitzgeralds Park as being a thing every Cork kid has visited.

Probably it is...I just arrived here in December, forgive--me...lol
I can tell you about "institutional" places for kids and adults in Firenze, Trieste and Inis Mor...that's where I lived long enough to know

suppafly · 15-01-2009 12:18am

Yur pics are pretty sweet DeRanged. I love the one u posted here of the swan walking on the ice. I think its really funny

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KnifeWRENCH · 17-01-2009 9:45pm

Aw man, I only saw this thread now. I wish I'd gone up and seen it during college.

Pictures are lovely.

Recon · 18-01-2009 9:14pm

Faith wrote: »

The shaky bridge is damn scary!

I've seen people go off that bridge in a kayak!

Stargate · 19-01-2009 1:23am

thanks for the cool pix , i love the lough

The Lough is mostly frozen over

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