Ballycotton
Baile Choitín | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Ballycotton lifeboat station dates from 2002. The Trent class boat Austin Lidbury is at its moorings in the harbour | |
  Ballycotton Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 51°49′37″N 08°00′11″W / 51.82694°N 8.00306°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Cork |
| Population | |
| • Total | 544 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | W992640 |
Ballycotton (Irish: Baile Choitín)[2] is a coastal village in County Cork, Ireland, situated about 25 miles (40 km) east of Cork city. It is a fishing village that sits on a rocky ledge overlooking Ballycotton Bay and has a sandy beach that stretches for about 25 kilometres (16 mi) east to Knockadoon Head. The current village is actually a re-settlement of an older village which is now entirely underwater. Ballycotton experiences severe coastal erosion with metres of land crumbling into the sea every few years. It is a site of international research interest on coastal erosion.[3][4]
- ^ "Sapmap Area: Settlement Ballycotton". Census 2022. Central Statistics Office. 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Baile Choitín / Ballycotton". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Dáil Éireann – Volume 461 – Adjournment Debate – County Cork Coastal Erosion". Debates record. Oireachtas. 20 February 1996. Archived from the original on 11 February 2012.
- ^ "Sea Level Changes And Ireland". ENFO.ie. Archived from the original on 10 August 2007.