Traytown Harbour Irelands Eye

If Trinity is a sheltered spot then Traytown has to match it, if not beat it! Ireland’s eye is a small Island that sits about 10 miles south of Trinity. It’s basically an abandoned outport with the remaining inhabitants resettled in 1964.
There’s evidence of derelict buildings along the shore and a few renovated dwellings. We tied up to one of their wharfs in the morning and learned that it was the family spot previously where they fished for a living and now is just for recreational use.
We followed trials across to the other side of the island and found graveyards which are always interesting in these tiny remote places they tell families stories, some of which are sad ones.

Weather conditions meant Austen deciding to put out a second anchor as we were swinging around with changeable wind directions and coming close to shore having positioned ourselves deep in what was almost a small spiral harbour. There was a loud expletive accompanying this procedure by virtue of the fact he lost the rope attached to said anchor before returning to the boat to attach it….😬 there followed a fishing mission with a grappling hook🤣 to retrieve it!

Needless to say by the following morning all was still and calm, we retrieved both our anchors and left this beautiful spot.with loons calling behind us.Read more