- Rosses Point
Infobox Irish Place
name = Rosses Point
gaeilge = An Ros
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motto =
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pin coords = left: 72px; top: 34px
north coord = 54.3092 | west coord = 8.5661 | irish grid = G631401
area = | elevation = <1 m
province =Connacht
county =County Sligo
population = | town pop = 872 | rural pop =
census yr = 2006
web = |Rosses Point (Irish_place_name|An Ros) is a village in
County Sligo , Ireland and also the name of the surrounding peninsula. The point guardsSligo Harbour and is marked by the Metal Man lighthouse, a 12 foot (3.7 m) high guardian statue placed offshore by local seafarers in1821 and maintained by theCommissioners of Irish Lights .Rosses Point is home to Co. Sligo Golf Club, which hosts the annual West of Ireland Championship and Sligo Yacht Club.
North of Rosses Point marine archeologists have recently uncovered a wreck of the
Spanish Armada which was storm-driven upon this coast in September of1588 .The poet
William Butler Yeats and his brother, the artistJack Butler Yeats , spent their summer holidays at Elsinore House, in Rosses Point.The "Waiting on Shore" monument, appropriately situated near the
RNLI lifeboat station, depicts a woman holding her arms out to sea. This sculpture reflects the age-old anguish of a seafaring people who watched and waited for the safe return of loved ones. It is to honour the memory of those who sailed, or were lost at sea, that this woman, cast in bronze, stands:"Lost at sea, lost at seaOr in the evening tideWe loved you, we miss youMay God be with you abide".
The Lifeboat Station is built next to the pier which hosts a number of fishing vessels. Sea Angling and Boat Charters also operate from here and offer a variety of services including deep sea angling, reef fishing, shark fishing (August-October), Coney Island taxis and eco tourism cruises.
[http://franklludwig.com/catalogue/Elsinore%20Lodge%204.jpgElsinore Lodge] was the seat of the Middleton Family where the Yeats brothers spent many a summer with their cousins. The house was built by the pirate captain John Black (Black Jack), and it is still said to be haunted by him (he supposedly knocks at the window pane three times, which should prove quite difficult at this stage). The house has fallen into disrepair, and even though plans to restore it emerge in the press every now and then, nothing has been done so far.
External links
* [http://www.lighthousedepot.com/database/uniquelighthouse.cfm?value=4766 Metal Man Lighthouse]
* [http://www.rossespointmarina.com Rossespoint Marina]
* [http://www.rossespoint.mobi Rossespoint Mobile]
* [http://www.rossespoint.net Rossespoint Information]
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