Kinsale Harbour
Cuan Cionn tSáile
Overview
Kinsale Harbour is situated in Co. Cork on the south coast of Ireland. The harbour area can be defined by Shroneean Point to the west and Preghane Point to the east. The Port of Kinsale Harbour authorities have placed an aid to navigation buoy called the Bulman Buoy just to the north west of this headland. The distance across the harbour mouth is just under 1 kilometre.
Further inside the harbour the remains of two military forts, Charles Fort on the east and James Fort to the west, dating from the 17 th century dominate the approaches to the inner harbour. The distinctive Old Head of Kinsale headland provides shelter in its lee for the area just seaward of the mouth of the harbour.
The River Bandon enters the sea at Kinsale where the sheltered harbour has led to its development as an important commercial and recreational port.
Location of Kinsale Harbour in Co. Cork on the south coast of Ireland.
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INFOMAR Survey History
In 2008, during a survey which surveyed a large area of the seabed off the Cork coast the Celtic Voyager mapped the area east of the Old Head and seaward of the mouth of the harbour. The overall area covered by the survey was 58 km2.
Coverage from survey legs undertaken in Kinsale Harbour and Approaches to date. (Click image for more detailed map)
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Shaded Relief
MBES shaded relief image of the seabed seaward of the mouth of Kinsale Harbour showing a similar channel feature cutting through the rock outcrops as seen at the mouth of Cork harbour, possibly indicating the path of river channels in the area at times of lower sea-level. (Click image for more detailed map)
Detailed MBES shaded relief image of an area of rock outcrop off the Old Head of Kinsale. Again, this image clearly illustrates that submarine rock outcrops follow a similar strike direction of ENE to WSW, as seen in onland outcrops of sedimentary rocks which are predominantly composed of sedimentary rocks, mainly sandstones, siltstones and mudstones which are Devonian (410 to 354 million years ago) and Carboniferous (354 to 298 million years ago) in age similar to MBES images up the coast at Cork Harbour. (Click image for more detailed map)
A more detailed chart of the shaded relief of the surveyed areas around Cork Harbour will be available once INFOMAR surveys of the area have been completed.
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Data Access
Full details outlining the process to gain access to datasets for the bay above or all INFOMAR data can be found in the INFOMAR | Data page of this website.
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