Yes, Keith - it's a fascinating place. Through the '80's and early '90's I used to teach sailing in Baltimore, a few miles away, for a few weeks each summer. I remember during an instructor training course one year, taking four dayboats into the lough on the last of the flood, sailing around for an hour or so, then heading back out as the ebb started. Magic.

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p.s. Another local curiosity is the village of Catletownshend , home of the Somerville of Somerville and Ross! I've been known to refer to it as "a cultural Lough Hyne"! ;>)>

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