Kilmakilloge Harbour
A good location with attentive navigation required for access. 4 metres LWS. Kilmakilloge Harbour is a large inlet on the southwest coast of Ireland, on the south bank of the Kenmare River and the north shore of the Beara Peninsula. It is situated 11 miles west of the large town of Kenmare and to the east of Ardgroom Harbour. It offers a choice of anchorages with a small hamlet and pier at the head of the inlet. get full information »
Ormond's Harbour
A good location with careful navigation required for access. 0 metres LWS. Ormond’s Harbour is a small isolated inlet on the southwest coast of Ireland, on the south bank of the Kenmare River and the north shore of the Beara Peninsula. It offers an isolated anchorage with a small pier at its head for convenient landings. get full information »
Dunkerron
A completely protected location with safe access. 3.2 metres LWS. Dunkerron Harbour is a sheltered anchorage situated on the north side of the Kenmare River about three miles southwestward of the town of Kenmare. It is a very good anchorage in a scenic setting with the choice of an old pier or a jetty to land upon or lay alongside overnight. get full information »
Sneem Harbour
A completely protected location with attentive navigation required for access. 3 metres LWS. Sneem Harbour is a sheltered anchorage situated on the southwest coast of Ireland and on the north side of the Kenmare River opposite Kilmakilloge. The spacious harbour offers a range of very good anchorages as well as visitor moorings with a choice of quays to land upon in a most picturesque location. get full information »
West Cove
A good location with attentive navigation required for access. 2 metres LWS. West Cove is situated on the southwest coast of Ireland near the entrance and on the north side of the Kenmare River. It is set into the northwest corner of a rock-strewn indentation and it offers a sheltered anchorage with a quay in a particularly picturesque location. get full information »
Darrynane Harbour
A completely protected location with careful navigation required for access. 3 metres LWS. Darrynane is situated on the southwest coast of Ireland and close northward of Lamb's Head, the north point of the entrance to Kenmare River. It offers a uniquely beautiful remote anchorage in a landlocked natural harbour with a choice of piers. get full information »
Ballinskellig Bay
A tolerable location with attentive navigation required for access. 4 metres LWS. Ballinskelligs Bay lies on Ireland's southwest coast on the extremity of the Iveragh peninsula close north of Scariff and Deenish Islands. It is a large southwest facing bay that provides an anchorage, principally, to the north of an island situated off of its northern entrance point. It has a pier and a small village and there are alternate anchoring positions around the bay in different conditions. get full information »
Great Skellig (Skellig Michael)
A stay-aboard location with straightforward access. 3 metres LWS. Great Skellig is the larger of two prominent pinnacle rock islets that lay off the southwest coast of Ireland and about seven miles out from the Iveragh Peninsula. Great Skellig or Skellig Michael, is the outer islet and the site of a remote island hermitage that is a UNESCO World Heritage Property. The island has a small landing pier that enables visitors to access the island. get full information »
Portmagee
A good location with attentive navigation required for access. 3 metres LWS. Portmagee is situated on the southwest coast of Ireland, south of Valentia Island on the entrance to Dingle Bay. It is located in the west end of the channel that lies between the island and the mainland and on the mainland. The small fishing port provides visiting yachts with a sheltered anchorage and the possibility of a pontoon berth. get full information »
Cahersiveen
A completely protected location with attentive navigation required for access. 1.9 metres LWS. Cahersiveen is located on Ireland's west coast, on the south side of the entrance to Dingle Bay and two miles upriver from Knightstown, Valentia. It offers a small but well-sheltered marina close to the provincial town of Cahersiveen and the possibility of anchoring off in the river. get full information »
Knightstown, Valentia
A completely protected location with straightforward access. 4 metres LWS. Valentia Harbour is situated on the southwest coast of Ireland upon the south side of the entrance to Dingle Bay, in a sheltered Valentia Island bight that faces the mainland and is surrounded by floating breakwaters. Knightstown is a small fishing port and ferry terminal that is Valentia Island’s only settlement. It provides visiting yachts with berths alongside its breakwaters and a choice of sheltered anchorages and moorings. get full information »
Cooncrome Harbour (Cuas Crom)
An exposed location with straightforward access. 4 metres LWS. Cooncrome Harbour is situated on the southwest coast of Ireland upon the southern entrance to Dingle Bay. It is a remote beach at the head of a rocky sea bight with a historic pier and slip. get full information »
Kells Bay
A good location with straightforward access. 4 metres LWS. Kells Bay is situated on the southwest coast of Ireland on the southern shore and deep within Dingle Bay. It is a popular bay with a sheltered beach that has a pier and slips where it is possible to anchor off or pick up public moorings. get full information »
Dingle Harbour
A completely protected location with safe access. 3 metres LWS. Dingle Harbour is set on Ireland’s southwest coast, on the southern shore of the Dingle Peninsula and the northwest side of the extensive Dingle Bay. The well sheltered natural harbour has a port on its northern shore that hosts a fishing port, a marina, and a shallow draft anchoring area adjacent to the provincial market town. get full information »
Ventry Harbour
A good location with straightforward access. 3 metres LWS. Ventry Harbour is a large bay situated on the west coast of Ireland and on the southwest corner of the Dingle Peninsula. Featuring a spectacular sandy beach along its western shore the picturesque southeast facing harbour provides visitor moorings, a wide space to anchor and piers for convenient landings. get full information »
Great Blasket Island
A tolerable location with attentive navigation required for access. 3 metres LWS. Great Blasket Island lies off the west coast of Ireland on the north side of the entrance to Dingle Bay about a mile off the extremity of the Dingle Peninsula. The uninhabited island is situated within a rocky group of islets that are Ireland’s, and continental Europe’s, most westerly. Great Blasket Island provides an anchorage and a sandy beach or slipway upon which to land on the island. get full information »
Smerwick Harbour
A tolerable location with straightforward access. 3 metres LWS. Smerwick Harbour is situated on the west coast of Ireland near the northeast extremity of the Dingle peninsula and immediately east of the renowned Sybil Point and the Three Sisters coastal peaks. It is an open picturesque bay that offers several anchoring possibilities with piers, slips or beaches on which to land. get full information »
Brandon Bay
A good location with straightforward access. 6 metres LWS. Brandon Bay is a large open bay on Ireland's west coast situated on the northern side of the Dingle peninsula and at the foot of Brandon Mountain. It offers an anchorage off a small village fronted by a stone pier. get full information »
Scraggane Bay
A good location with straightforward access. 3 metres LWS. Scraggane Bay is located on the west coast of Ireland on the north side of the Dingle Peninsula and in the fork of the headland separating Tralee Bay from Brandon Bay. The bay offers an anchorage with a small fishing pier and slips for convenient landings and a small village a short walk away. get full information »
Illauntannig, Magharee Islands
An exposed location with careful navigation required for access. 2 metres LWS. Illauntannig is the largest of a number of small islands called the Maharee Islands located on the west coast of Ireland and on the north side of the Dingle Peninsula. The island is situated a mile off the northern end of the sandy peninsula that separates Brandon Bay to the west from Tralee Bay on the east. It offers an anchorage off its beach. get full information »
Castlegregory
A good location with straightforward access. 3 metres LWS. Castlegregory is located on the west coast of Ireland, on the north side of the Dingle Peninsula and the east side of the sandy peninsula that separates Brandon Bay to the west from Tralee Bay on the east. It offers an anchorage off a long beach that has a small inshore village in its southwest corner. get full information »
Fenit Harbour
A completely protected location with safe access. 2.7 metres LWS. Fenit Harbour is located on the west coast of Ireland, to the south of the Shannon Estuary and within the southeast corner of Tralee Bay. It is a fishing village with a small commercial port that offers a marina for leisure craft and the opportunity to anchor adjacent to the harbour area. get full information »
Barrow Harbour
A good location with attentive navigation required for access. 3 metres LWS. Barrow Harbour is located on the west coast of Ireland, within a tidal inlet in the southeast corner of Tralee Bay. It lies between Fenit Island and the mainland and it offers a secluded anchorage beneath an ancient castle within a vast white sand tidal lagoon. get full information »