Harbours and boats

• Killybegs (Na Cealla Beaga) · Donegal
  A natural deepwater harbour, 12 metres at low water spring tide at the €50 million pier finished in 2004. Home to all the largest Irish midwater pelagic trawlers and a modest whitefish fleet; the summer festival keeps the Blessing of the Boats.
  Source: Killybegs ↗
• Castletownbere (Baile Chaisleáin Bhéarra) · Cork
  A regionally important fishing port on Berehaven Harbour on the Beara Peninsula; in the 19th and early 20th centuries the harbour was a Royal Navy anchorage.
  Source: Castletownbere ↗
• Howth (Binn Éadair) · Dublin
  A fishing village and small trading port from at least the 14th century, now a Dublin suburb with a busy commercial fishing port and a marina beside it.
  Source: Howth ↗
• Dunmore East (Dún Mór Thóir) · Waterford
  Recorded as a fishing port about 1745, with fifty boats in 1776. Alexander Nimmo began the harbour pier in 1818. Wikipedia calls it one of the five designated National Fishery Harbours, with the second highest landings after Killybegs.
  Source: Dunmore East ↗
• Rossaveel (Ros an Mhíl) · Galway
  A Gaeltacht village in Connemara and the main ferry port for the Aran Islands; the name is explained as "peninsula (or wood) of the whale (or sea monster)".
  Source: Rossaveal ↗
• Kilkeel (Cill Chaoil) · Down
  The main fishing port on the Down coast; its harbour is home to the largest fishing fleet in Northern Ireland, with fish-processing factories around the port.
  Source: Kilkeel ↗
• Portavogie (Port a' Bhogaigh) · Down
  The easternmost settlement in Ireland, with a modern harbour and a large fleet catching mainly prawns and herring; most evenings there are fish auctions on the quays.
  Source: Portavogie ↗
• Ardglass (Ard Ghlais) · Down
  Still a relatively important fishing harbour. Ulster's busiest port in the 15th century, it has four medieval tower houses; harbour works came only after 1812.
  Source: Ardglass ↗

• Currach (curach; naomhóg in Cork, Waterford and Kerry) · West coast
  A wooden frame once covered in hides, now usually canvas; the design is unique to the west coast of Ireland. Called a naomhóg in Cork, Waterford and Kerry and a "canoe" in West Clare. Gerald of Wales described a skin-covered wickerwork boat off Connacht in 1187.
  Source: Currach ↗
• Galway hooker (húicéir) · Galway Bay
  A fishing and cargo boat built for Galway Bay seas: black pitched hull, red-brown sails, one mast. Four classes, all named in Irish: the bád mór ("big boat", 10.5–13.5 m) and leathbhád ("half-boat") carried turf from Connemara and Mayo to Aran and the Burren and brought limestone back; the gleoiteog (7–9 m) fished and carried cargo; the púcán is gleoiteog-sized with a lug mainsail. Cruinniú na mBád is raced each year to Kinvara.
  Source: Galway hooker ↗
• Drontheim · Donegal, Derry and Antrim coasts
  Also called the Greencastle yawl or north coast yawl: a clinker-built, double-ended open boat up to 28 feet, rigged with one or two masts, used for line and drift-net fishing, transport and cutting seaweed. Named from Trondheim; the type is traced to Norwegian boats carried as deck cargo on ships bringing timber and ice from about 1800. There is no English Wikipedia article, and the origin story differs between accounts.
  Source: Lokalhistoriewiki: Drontheim (båt), citing Donal MacPolin, The Drontheim (1992) ↗
• Gandelow · Shannon estuary, Limerick
  A flat-bottomed wooden boat about 7 metres long, used since at least the 17th century for salmon fishing and cutting thatching reeds. Limerick's fishing village was on Clancy Strand; building faded after the 1950s and has since revived for racing. The origin of the name is unknown.
  Source: Gandelow ↗

We give no landings tonnages or fleet sizes: they change every year and the articles we use don't give current, comparable figures. Irish names for the Drontheim and gandelow are left out because no source we used gives one.

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