Clogga Beach

As per our conversation herewith information re Clogga Beach, Wicklow as requested:

There is access to Clogga Beach four miles south of Arklow, where you can go bottom fishing over the sand for bass, dogfish and flounder. Around to the right over the rocks there is a clearly marked area that says ‘‘private property’ which is boarded with fences. This area is privately owned and therefore inaccessible for fishing.

Kind Regards,

Inspector
Eastern Regional Fisheries Board

jesus thats a nice big beach they have all to themselves there then...

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Inaccessible for fishing?

What's to stop anyone rocking up on a boat and unloading for the day?

I can understand and respect private land being private, and there being no right of way, but to say the fishing is inaccessible is more or less saying that it's a private beach, and to my understanding that's just plain wrong.

As you can imagine local anglers and walkers are not very happy with this situation, fencing goes right to the water. There has been a lot of friction between the people fishing/walking and the person(s) responsible for the fence.

if its a wooden fence wont last long during the summer one good bonfire will see to that lol might be worth looking to see was there planing permisson on the fence. dident think there was any private beaches along the east coast.can you waLK arouind the fench at low tide?

As I understand it, any shore area between the lowest low water and the highest high water belongs to the State. You are not trespassing if you approach along the waters edge under the high tide line, its access from the land thats out.

As I understand it, any shore area between the lowest low water and the highest high water belongs to the State. You are not trespassing if you approach along the waters edge under the high tide line, its access from the land thats out.

that is my understanding as well, so at low tide you can fish away along as you are not above the high tide mark

fencing goes right to the water.

That should be tested legally. Long long time since I was on Clogga, is there a dry spit you have to cross? That might be a problem

Access to the foreshore is disappearing fast everywhere, old right-of-way tracks round me are being erased all the time, and there's one prime beach where the boat is now the only realistic option. Apart from us anglers, what does Bord Failte think of all this?

I have asked for clarification from the ERFB
John

As I understand it, any shore area between the lowest low water and the highest high water belongs to the State. You are not trespassing if you approach along the waters edge under the high tide line, its access from the land thats out.

It belongs to all citizens of the Irish state...

"For What Died the Sons of Róisín, was it fame?
For What Died the Sons of Róisín, was it fame?
For what flowed Irelands blood in rivers,
That began when Brian chased the Dane,
And did not cease nor has not ceased,
With the brave sons of ´16,
For what died the sons of Róisín, was it fame?

For What Died the Sons of Róisín, was it greed?
For What Died the Sons of Róisín, was it greed?
Was it greed that drove Wolfe Tone to a paupers death in a cell of cold wet stone?
Will German, French or Dutch inscribe the epitaph of Emmet?
When we have sold enough of Ireland to be but strangers in it.
For What Died the Sons of Róisín, was it greed?

To whom do we owe our allegiance today?
To whom do we owe our allegiance today?
To those brave men who fought and died that Róisín live again with pride?
Her sons at home to work and sing,
Her youth to dance and make her valleys ring,
Or the faceless men who for Mark and Dollar,
Betray her to the highest bidder,
To whom do we owe our allegiance today?

For what suffer our patriots today?
For what suffer our patriots today?
They have a language problem, so they say,
How to write "No Trespass" must grieve their heart full sore,
We got rid of one strange language now we are faced with many, many more,
For what suffer our patriots today?"

ok il take down my fenches. god cant keep a private mark for your self anymore but they throw poetry books at you