Kinsale

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Tonight - Partly Cloudy
Minimum: 12C, Wind Direction: north-westerly
Wind: Very Good 12mph, Pressure: 1024mb, Sunset: 19:47 IST
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Wednesday - Light Cloud
Maximum: 16C, Minimum: 12C
Wind: 14mph westerly, Visibility: Very Good, Pollution: -- , Sunrise: 07:11 IST, Sunset: 19:45 IST
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Thursday - Sunny Intervals
Maximum: 16C, Minimum: 9C
Wind: 18mph westerly, Visibility: Very Good, Pollution: -- , Sunrise: 07:13 IST, Sunset: 19:43 IST
DateEventTimeHeight
Tue 15 SepLow Tide02:320.74m
Tue 15 SepHigh Tide08:253.76m
Tue 15 SepLow Tide14:480.79m
Tue 15 SepHigh Tide20:413.72m
Wed 16 SepLow Tide03:070.92m
Wed 16 SepHigh Tide08:593.65m
Wed 16 SepLow Tide15:220.98m
Wed 16 SepHigh Tide21:153.59m
Thu 17 SepLow Tide03:421.1m
Thu 17 SepHigh Tide09:363.51m
Thu 17 SepLow Tide15:591.19m
Thu 17 SepHigh Tide21:523.44m
Fri 18 SepLow Tide04:211.3m
Fri 18 SepHigh Tide10:193.36m
Fri 18 SepLow Tide16:441.4m
Fri 18 SepHigh Tide22:363.27m
Sat 19 SepLow Tide05:131.49m
Sat 19 SepHigh Tide11:123.19m
Sat 19 SepLow Tide17:451.59m
Sat 19 SepHigh Tide23:333.1m
Sun 20 SepLow Tide06:261.62m
Sun 20 SepHigh Tide12:243.05m
Sun 20 SepLow Tide19:011.68m
Sun 20 SepHigh Tide00:563m
Mon 21 SepLow Tide07:501.61m
Mon 21 SepHigh Tide14:093.08m
Mon 21 SepLow Tide20:201.6m
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Kinsale in County Cork is one of the most picturesque, popular and fashionable resorts of the south-west coast of Ireland. Famous for its beautiful yachting, sea angling, gourmet restaurants and golf. For those of you who would like to improve your English, there is the excellent Kinsale School of English and Art galleries


Kinsale can easily claim its place amongst Ireland's most historic locations for this has been a centre of population, commerce, trade and fishing far beyond memory and record. In its earliest days the estuary of the Bandon River gave it great importance as the river is tidal as far as Innishannon and water transport was dominant until the 18th Century.

The estuary also provided excellent anchorage for ancient shipping which went in peril of the vagaries of the weather.

The Town nestles between the hills and the shoreline, a maze of narrow streets, never far from the water and little changed in many hundreds of years. Amongst buildings of later periods are those of another age with historical links to the French, Spanish, British and Americans.
Comments (9)
08/04/2016 @ 11:00 pm
Max
Hello,

My wife and I are American, and have been living aboard our 12-meter sloop in Ipswich, UK the past two winters. For next winter, we are looking for alternatives and thought that Southern Ireland would be a possibility. Friends have suggested Kinsail.

Can you briefly tell us whether your berths are suitable for living aboard in the winter. Also, are there any other liveaboards or would we be pretty much on our own? Finally, can you tell us the approximate cost to winter afloat (say Oct 1 thru March 31)?

Many thanks
Max Fletcher
S/V Juanona
Maine USA
Members OCC and CCA
19/03/2016 @ 7:52 am
George Carlton
Just visited the Emerald Isle and found your guide very useful. Kinsale seems very up to date, but some of the other Irish sites seem to need updating. How oftem do you update?
19/09/2015 @ 7:11 pm
Jerry and Lou
How do, Just stumbled accross your site and we are finding it extremely useful on our travels. We have come over to Europ from the good old US of A, travelling round Europe.
Great idea for visitors, pity you only feature coastal towns though.
Just a thought
Thanks J&L
29/08/2015 @ 8:45 am
Barry and crew
Just been sailing round Ireland and came into Kinsale. I discovered your website when I was searching for marine services in Kinsale. What a great help its been to us. we will be using it for the rest of our trip.
Thanks Barry and Julie.
10/02/2015 @ 11:17 am
pete scribens
Do you have a yatch lifting facility at you marina ?
26/08/2013 @ 9:09 am
Allan from Belfast
Actons Hotel is one of the best hotel i have had to stay in whilst i was having minor repairs done on my rib.
Kinsale was good as well.
04/07/2012 @ 4:31 pm
Harbourguides Crew
We are coming to Kinsale hopefully in a fortnight...look forward to visiting some of the lively bars there...
22/06/2011 @ 12:02 pm
Harbourguides
Hi Peter
we dont have any records at Harbourguides, but you could try the Kinsale yacht club, they may know a way of finding out. The email address is as follows : info@kyc.ie
Good Luck
22/06/2011 @ 11:07 am
Peter Hurley
Hi
I would like to ask if there are any records of a Edward Hurley Harbour Pilot
approx. 1830-1850 ?. He had a son Randal DOB 1835 who went into the
Royal Navy. If you could point me in the right direction many thanks.

Peter
p_d_hurley@lineone.net
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Business Reviews (1)
08/04/2016 @ 11:02 pm
Castlepark Marina by Max
Hello,

My wife and I are American, and have been living aboard our 12-meter sloop in Ipswich, UK the past two winters. For next winter, we are looking for alternatives and thought that Southern Ireland would be a possibility. Friends have suggested Kinsail.

Can you briefly tell us whether your berths are suitable for living aboard in the winter. Also, are there any other liveaboards or would we be pretty much on our own? Finally, can you tell us the approximate cost to winter afloat (say Oct 1 thru March 31)?

Many thanks
Max Fletcher
S/V Juanona
Maine USA
Members OCC and CCA
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