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News and views on Greystones harbour and marina [SEE MODERATOR WARNING POST 1187]

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    #332
    MyPerfectCousin
    Registered Users Posts: 741 ✭✭✭MyPerfectCousin


    The more things change....
    The only object of either statistical or picturesque interest, on the coast road, is Grey-stones, a little, wild headland, composed of a durable slate rock. The situation is much exposed, the rock stands in deep water, and presents encouragement for improvement and speculation. There are seven families residing here, all employed in the fisheries, and also a preventive water-guard.

    The formation of an harbour at this point would be very desirable: there is no shelter for shipping along the coast from Waterford to Kingstown, near Dublin; an asylum also is much wanted for the small craft engaged in the fisheries; and, as a packet station, it is most eligible, being accessible at all times of tide: packets between Daw-pool, in Cheshire, and Greystones, in Wicklow, might sail and arrive at all times and tides without any obstructions but what are inseparable from the watery element. Mr. Nimmo surveyed this coast, and reported favourably of the natural advantages of Grey-stones: his estimate for the erecting of a serviceable pier was 4000l.: this would enclose an area of two acres in an outer harbour, and one in an inner, having a depth of ten feet at low water, sufficient to float all coasting vessels, as well as steam vessels, of 200 tons burden.

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    pixbyjohn
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    pixbyjohn
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    pixbyjohn
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    #336
    pixbyjohn
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    #337
    Blanchflower
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    pixbyjohn wrote: »
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    We they be extending the rock armour any further as the coastal erosion looks very bad.


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    #338
    pixbyjohn
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    pixbyjohn
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    #340
    Annasopra
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    I see a story in the Wicklow Times that there is an open day this Saturday

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #341
    Blanchflower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Blanchflower


    Johnnymcg wrote: »
    I see a story in the Wicklow Times that there is an open day this Saturday

    Will everyone be provided with a hard hat and high viz vest? This PR stunt could be dangerous.


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    #342
    pixbyjohn
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    #343
    Langerland
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    "Insist On Sisk".....finishing the harbour :D

    I'll be going down anyway for a look on Saturday...


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    #344
    mariaalice
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    Anyone else get a giggle from the leaflet they sent round....come and the see the ALMOST:p finished harbor.


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    #345
    Blanchflower
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    pixbyjohn wrote: »
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    Perhaps they will allow the harbour to silt up so that the horrid boulders are hidden and our kids can once again paddle and play in our harbour.


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    #346
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    Blanchflower wrote: »
    Perhaps they will allow the harbour to silt up so that the horrid boulders are hidden and our kids can once again paddle and play in our harbour.

    Paddle and play IN the harbour???

    The beach is where you paddle and play and look for interesting stones. The harbour is for boats!

    :eek:


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    #347
    nobby grande
    Registered Users Posts: 117 ✭✭nobby grande


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    Paddle and play IN the harbour???

    The beach is where you paddle and play and look for interesting stones. The harbour is for boats!

    :eek:

    Believe it or not, Greystones harbour was a sleepy little fishing harbour with a small beach enclosed within it before this work began. It was ideal for swimming and paddling and hopefully it will be again, once this whole sorry mess is sorted out. Greystones is not quite Dun Laoghaire, nor do the residents wish for it to be.


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    #348
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    nobby grande wrote: »
    Believe it or not, Greystones harbour was a sleepy little fishing harbour with a small beach enclosed within it before this work began. It was ideal for swimming and paddling and hopefully it will be again, once this whole sorry mess is sorted out. Greystones is not quite Dun Laoghaire, nor do the residents wish for it to be.

    I used to be trucked down there in my pram, and when I could walk I remember the fishing boats, for some reason I developed fear of the place, perhaps it was from being warned about the dangers of falling in amongst the boats.


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    #349
    pixbyjohn
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    #350
    d'Oracle
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    nobby grande wrote: »
    Believe it or not, Greystones harbour was a sleepy little fishing harbour with a small beach enclosed within it before this work began. It was ideal for swimming and paddling and hopefully it will be again, once this whole sorry mess is sorted out. Greystones is not quite Dun Laoghaire, nor do the residents wish for it to be.

    And before that it was a small working harbour with boats and trawlers.
    Which was before it silted up to a virtually unusable point.
    And people went swimming and paddling on the beaches.


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    #351
    nobby grande
    Registered Users Posts: 117 ✭✭nobby grande


    d'Oracle wrote: »
    And before that it was a small working harbour with boats and trawlers.
    Which was before it silted up to a virtually unusable point.
    And people went swimming and paddling on the beaches.


    I remember the harbour quite clearly before it silted up while it was fully functional for fishing boats. It was perfect for kids as there was a small sandy strip at the side in front of carraig eden, and it was perfect for harbouring boats. The two uses were and are not mutually exclusive.


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    #352
    pixbyjohn
    Registered Users Posts: 6,250 ✭✭✭pixbyjohn


    nobby grande wrote: »
    I remember the harbour quite clearly before it silted up while it was fully functional for fishing boats. It was perfect for kids as there was a small sandy strip at the side in front of carraig eden, and it was perfect for harbouring boats. The two uses were and are not mutually exclusive.

    The area you are mentioning is the Cove, and this area has had no harbour developments carried out at all. As you will see in my photo which was taken on 24-Aug-2010 at 18:06. People still use the Cove to swim in, but it is clearly not the harbour.
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    #353
    woodsy2
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭woodsy2


    posted by d'oracle:
    "And before that it was a small working harbour with boats and trawlers."


    I recall as a young child (early 90s) being down at the harbour with the mother and seeing a fishing boat unloading at the pier. I'm fairly certain this was greystones harbour as opposed to elsewhere. Having seen a small fishing boat operating close-in to bray head recently, was wondering when was the last time any commercial fishing boats operated from greystones harbour? (or whether they still do/did up till the start of the harbour's rebuilding anyway)


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    #354
    cuddlycavies
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    Apparantly it's still a productive lobster and clam fishery. There is at least one commercial fisherman. Dont know him. He's a friend of a work contact. He must be mooring at Wicklow during the works.


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    pixbyjohn
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    pixbyjohn
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    pixbyjohn
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    pixbyjohn
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    pixbyjohn
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    #360
    pixbyjohn
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    #361
    nobby grande
    Registered Users Posts: 117 ✭✭nobby grande


    pixbyjohn wrote: »
    The area you are mentioning is the Cove, and this area has had no harbour developments carried out at all. As you will see in my photo which was taken on 24-Aug-2010 at 18:06. People still use the Cove to swim in, but it is clearly not the harbour.
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    Thank you John, but that is not what i was reffering to. I was taking about the sandy side of the harbour in front of where the lobster pots were stored.


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