This is a list of submerged places in Ireland . Sometimes, entire villages are submerged under the waters of a reservoir. When the level of waters is low, the structures can emerge and be visible.
A large area of countryside, about 5,000 acres (20 km2), was evacuated to create the Poulaphouca Reservoir in the 1930s and 1940s, including the village of Poulaphouca. [1] 76 houses were also destroyed. [2]
An ancient forest stood in the area between Bray, County Wicklow and Killiney before being submerged by rising sea levels c. 4000 BC. Under the Irish Sea is a "prehistoric palaeolandscape of plains, hills, marshlands and river valleys, in which evidence of human activity is expected to be preserved"; it has been compared to Doggerland in the North Sea. [3]
Lough Nahaltora. County Mayo, contains a submerged forest from c. 2000 BC. [4]
Rosslare Fort was submerged by a storm in 1924–25; a fort had stood on the promontory in Wexford Harbour since the 17th century. [2]
Other submerged sites, according to the National Monuments Service, include "landscapes, harbours, jetties, landing places, fish traps, kelp grids, bridge sites, crannogs and tidal mills." [5]
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