Mulroy Bay ( ga, Cuan na Maoil Ruaidh) is a relatively small bay / sea loch on the north coast of

County Donegal County Donegal ( ; ga, Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town of Donegal in the south of the county. It has also been known as County Tyrconn ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

. Mulroy Bay is the most convoluted of the marine inlets in north-west

. It is approximately 12 km long in a north-south direction. The entrance to the bay is a narrow embayment leading to a winding entrance channel 10 km in length. This channel varies in width and depth, with three significant narrows only 100–150 m across, where the current reaches maxima of 3-5 knots. It opens into the

Broad Water Broad Water, or Broadwater (Welsh: ''Aber Dysynni'') is a salt water lagoon near Tywyn, Wales formed from the silted up estuary of the River Dysynni. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the estuary was used by the shipbuilding industry, ...

, an open shallow sea lough 8 km from north to south and 2.5 km from east to west, generally less than 20 m in depth and with many small rocky islands and islets. Settlements founded on the bay include Milford,

Kerrykeel Kerrykeel (; historically and in census returns Carrowkeel) is a small village in County Donegal, Ireland. It lies between Knockalla Mountain and Ranny Hill and is on the shores of Mulroy Bay. Kerrykeel is accessible via the R245 and R247 road ...

and Cranford. The English name of the bay comes from ''Cuan na Mhaoil Ruaidh'', the original

Irish language Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was ...

name for the bay which means 'Bay of the Red Current' or 'Bay of the Red Stream'.Patrick McKay, ''A Dictionary of Ulster Place-Names'', p. 115. The Institute of Irish Studies,

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, Belfast, 1999.

References

External links

Mulroy Bay on Ecoserve.ie
{{coord, 55, 09, N, 7, 41, W, display=title, region:IE_type:waterbody_source:GNS-enwiki Bays of County Donegal Sea loughs of the Republic of Ireland