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Pier inland in cork

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  • 17-06-2016 12:26am
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    daithi_dearg
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    Hello,

    I'm not sure did I imagine it but i thought i heard before about a pier in Cork being left inland after the sea levels feel possibly centuries ago. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

    Slan,
    David


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    mordeith
    Registered Users Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    daithi_dearg wrote: »
    Hello,

    I'm not sure did I imagine it but i thought i heard before about a pier in Cork being left inland after the sea levels feel possibly centuries ago. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

    Slan,
    David

    I highly doubt sea levels fell to such a level that a pier was left behind. Perhaps a lake was drained somewhere and a jetty mighty be left.


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    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,813 ✭✭✭Odelay


    daithi_dearg wrote: »
    Hello,

    I'm not sure did I imagine it but i thought i heard before about a pier in Cork being left inland after the sea levels feel possibly centuries ago. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

    Slan,
    David

    Old mooring bollards can be seen on grand parade. At one time boats could come in that far but the channels have since been filled in, it was not related to rising/lowering sea levels.


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    ofcork
    Registered Users Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭ofcork


    You also have poulraddy harbour in blackpool which doesnt look like one now!


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    daithi_dearg
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    Appreciate all the inputs. I imagined i heard it, it appears


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    Keeks
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    Where in Cork.....city or county?

    I know in Clonakilty there a streets there call Quays which are no longer a Quay....the inner harbour silted up causing the the Area to "Dry" up. I believe it was some underwater volcanic eruption in the atlantic was the cause.


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    daithi_dearg
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭daithi_dearg


    I thought it was county. Possibly West cork but I'm pretty vague on it.

    Keeks wrote: »
    Where in Cork.....city or county?

    I know in Clonakilty there a streets there call Quays which are no longer a Quay....the inner harbour silted up causing the the Area to "Dry" up. I believe it was some underwater volcanic eruption in the atlantic was the cause.


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    Balmed Out
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    Keeks wrote: »
    Where in Cork.....city or county?

    I know in Clonakilty there a streets there call Quays which are no longer a Quay....the inner harbour silted up causing the the Area to "Dry" up. I believe it was some underwater volcanic eruption in the atlantic was the cause.

    That was apparently as a result of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 and a resulting tsunami. It silted up the harbour, formed the dunes in castlefrek / long strand and the warren beach. Before it Incydoney and I think somewhere else were proper islands too. The same tsunami partially destroyed the walls around the spanish arch in Galway and somehome resulted in the river Bandon being much lower having previously being navigable by cargo boats to bandon.


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