Don’t fool around @Rocko
[QUOTE=“ChocolateMice, post: 1156758, member: 168”]Yes.
Would you not tip out to Ardnacrusha and you can swim from bank to bank no problem… You can do a few jumps off the bridge too.[/QUOTE]
I hate Clare.
[QUOTE=“ChocolateMice, post: 1156758, member: 168”]Yes.
Would you not tip out to Ardnacrusha and you can swim from bank to bank no problem… You can do a few jumps off the bridge too.[/QUOTE]
Ardnarusha can be dangerous as they often open gates in the power station with little warning.
Ardclooney just before the weir before o briens bridge s a far better spot
[QUOTE=“Big Mick McCarthy, post: 1156771, member: 1137”]Ardnarusha can be dangerous as they often open gates in the power station with little warning.
Ardclooney just before the weir before o briens bridge s a far better spot[/QUOTE]
Many a summer spent swimming there and jumping off the bridge… Do many latchicos from Limerick still tip out there?
[QUOTE=“TreatyStones, post: 1156447, member: 1786”]Why do you want to swim in a lake?
Dromore Lake in Kildimo is supposed to be nice, but apparently fairly dangerous. Most places would have a local swimming spot. You could jump off the pier in Beagh Castle if you wanted?[/QUOTE]
Dromore is a lovely swim
What’s with the smack talk about dromore lake? Very safe. Beautiful spot for a swim. Father took me out there since I was young. Swam across the lake to the pier on the far side by the castle many times. I guess it depends on whereabouts on the lake you hop in.
You gets the scobes out there in the summer, so you do.
Yup. Landed out there one day and there was a handful of travellers in the water with shampoo having a wash.
Good old @fucked out 
Cunthooks!
Another thing about Lough Gur is it has massive Pike. I have an uncle who went fishing there years ago and hooked a pike. He fought it for about 30mins and on raising him out of the water about to net him the beast broke the rod clean in half and swam off with the hook in his mouth and half a rod in tow.
It is also extremely deep in Lough Gur. Wikipedia measures the max depth as 3.8m but that’s bollocks as the depth is in fact over 100ft and unmeasurable.
I can’t stress enough that it is not safe to swim in Lough Gur.
[QUOTE=“Tournafulla Man, post: 1157119, member: 443”]Another thing about Lough Gur is it has massive Pike. I have an uncle who went fishing there years ago and hooked a pike. He fought it for about 30mins and on raising him out of the water about to net him the beast broke the rod clean in half and swam off with the hook in his mouth and half a rod in tow.
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:rolleyes:
[QUOTE=“Tournafulla Man, post: 1157119, member: 443”]Another thing about Lough Gur is it has massive Pike. I have an uncle who went fishing there years ago and hooked a pike. He fought it for about 30mins and on raising him out of the water about to net him the beast broke the rod clean in half and swam off with the hook in his mouth and half a rod in tow.
It is also extremely deep in Lough Gur. Wikipedia measures the max depth as 3.8m but that’s bollocks as the depth is in fact over 100ft and unmeasurable.
I can’t stress enough that it is not safe to swim in Lough Gur.[/QUOTE]
All of that sounds like a Horsebox made up story.
[QUOTE=“Tournafulla Man, post: 1157119, member: 443”]Another thing about Lough Gur is it has massive Pike. I have an uncle who went fishing there years ago and hooked a pike. He fought it for about 30mins and on raising him out of the water about to net him the beast broke the rod clean in half and swam off with the hook in his mouth and half a rod in tow.
It is also extremely deep in Lough Gur. Wikipedia measures the max depth as 3.8m but that’s bollocks as the depth is in fact over 100ft and unmeasurable.
I can’t stress enough that it is not safe to swim in Lough Gur.[/QUOTE]
Did you get to walk across it when it was frozen over back in 09 &10?
Sure what would a man from Tournafulla be doing over in Lough Gur in the depths of winter?
Loch Gur is a very sacred place.If you look down on it from the hill you can make out a lake within a lake and an island in the middle of the second lake - the ancients believed this to be a womb, which symbolized life… and paid homage to the goddess Aine at the hill and around the lake at different times of the year- June 24th, when the sun started it’s descent again (now St. John’s day) was a particularly special day for worship… The goddess does appear every 7 years, often as an old hag, or some times as a beautiful maiden brushing her hair. She appeared as the latter to bauld Gerald Fitzgerald, who lived in the nearby castle, and took him off with her… he’s at the bottom of the lake with an army waiting for the final battle between the Irish and the English and to finally drive the tans out of Ireland once and for all.
The goddess Aine.
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Is the island a crannog?
What is that in the water ?