Talk:Extreme points of Ireland

Rockall

I thought that RoI didn't make a territorial claim on Rockall, just a EEZ claim on the continental shelf in that area? Alai 06:25, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Lattitude & longtitude

Can someone supply references? Peter Clarke 11:48, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Settlements

In other similar pages details of settlements are given. I have added easternmost. Peter Clarke 12:04, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Great Foze Rock

Strictly speaking, Great Foze Rock is the most westerly point in Ireland. It lies south - and crucially, west of Tearaght at 10W 41.4. The most westerly point on Teragh is 10W 39.8 and the small outlying rock to the west of Tearaght is 10W 40.12. Great Foze is little known now, but in the days of frequent ship transport around the Irish Coast, it was well known as a hazard - the Irish lighthouse authorities of the time originally wanted to build the Tearaght lighthouse on Great Foze, but were eventually persuaded to put it on Tearaght. See http://www.commissionersofirishlights.com/cil/aids-to-navigation/lighthouses/inishtearaght.aspx for the story.

The Routing Directions for Ireland (Publication 142 by the US NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, available at http://msi.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub142/Pub142bk.pdf) describes the Great Foze as follows:

"Great Foze Rock, the SW danger of the Blasket Islands, lies about 3 miles SSW of Tearaght Island; it is rugged and steep-to, with a 16.5m patch about 0.1 mile NW of it. Little Foze Rock, 0.8 mile NNE of Great Foze Rock, is 7.9m high, steep-to, and with a deep channel between them."

Scartboy (talk) 17:59, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

See also the Youtube video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LYqV1BCHHw

Scartboy (talk) 18:12, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Eastern most point

According to Google maps, the eastern tip of Wicklow Head is more easterly than the eastern most tip of Lambay. So the reference to Lambay needs to come out IMHO. Laurel Lodged (talk) 09:16, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

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Highest village

On the page for Meelin‎‎ (County Cork) is the claim of its being the highest village at 823 feet, but that it is disputed with Glencullen (County Dublin) which is said to be at 825 feet. The article for Lyre, County Cork claims that it is 875 feet above sea level and "some locals claim it to be the third highest village in Ireland". Do I give credence to a Lyre? That height would make it not the third highest but the highest village of all in Ireland. It depends though on what counts as a village, how you measure the height of a village and which ground you county as being within the village. Hogweard (talk) 13:47, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

@Hogweard: None of these three places have a reliable source for their elevations. I tagged Meelin and Lyre with "citation needed" for this back in December 2018. Three years on, they are still unsourced. Such data should have a source, and there's the "elevation_footnotes" parameter in "Infobox settlement" for this purpose. Declangi (talk) 02:52, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Lowest point

I have removed the unreferenced figure of -3m from the article since it may simply have been made up for all we know. It can added back if a reference is found. Geopersona (talk) 15:42, 14 December 2022 (UTC)