Updates
Welcome to our Updates page! Here you can find the latest news and information about our beach. We’ll be regularly posting updates about new activities, attractions, and events taking place at the beach. We’ll also provide updates on any changes to the beach’s policies, facilities, and amenities. Be sure to check back often for the latest news on the beach.
CLONE STRAND today – Good Friday – the beach is restored to normality. (Pic; WexfordLocal.com)
By Dan Walsh at Clone Strand
Problems with flooding in the vicinity of the Ahare River and cascading steam across Clone Strand preventing access to the beach and difficulties with spawning beds and access to the Inch River may have been solved… by nature itself!
Concerns raised at a recent public meeting held in the Golden Anchor, Castletown, and consistent lobbying by local public representatives, especially Cllr Joe Sullivan, but credit also to Cllrs Diarmuid Devereux, Anthony Donohoe and Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin, has elevated the North Wexford coastal difficulties into the public arena and calls for action from Wexford County Council.
On March 31st, WexfordLocal.com exclusively talked with Cllr Sullivan on Clone Strand surrounded by a two-metre sand cliff and a fast-flowing river that “placed public access in doubt” unless “a channel was cut allowing the river flow into the sea.”
A few days later and a direct river to sea channel naturally opened and, consequently, nature succeeds where the local authority has failed! Nature has of its own accord guided the river on a direct channel to the sea, replicating a tradition once operated by the locals until undermined by regulation.
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MARCH 31st… CLLR JOE SULLIVAN standing on Clone Strand beside a cascading river and a two-metre sand cliff top. (Pic; WexfordLocal.com)
By Dan Walsh at Clone Beach, Castletown
Clone Beach in North Wexford could be closed to the public this season if immediate action called for by a majority who attended a public meeting held in the Golden Anchor, Castletown, on Thursday night is ignored by Wexford County Council.
About 40 concerned locals attended the meeting which was well publicised in advance and chaired by local Cllr Joe Sullivan “in a determined effort to improve matters and to formulate a framework of action going forward for the betterment of the entire community.”
The debate was focussed on the excessive volume of water in the Ahare River causing consistent flooding of adjacent lands, impeding traffic on the road between Castletown and Tara Hill and the stagnation of water at the bridge prior to the river emptying into the sea on Clone Beach.
It was a lively meeting with plenty of input and locals seeking immediate action, especially in relation to the two-metre-high sand cliff edges that have developed on Clone Beach.