Mír i liosta de ghnéithe topografacha /
Entry in a list of Topographic Features
Entry in a list of Topographic Features
Informant: Unknown
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Address: Templetown, Co. Wexford
Collector: Collected as part of The Schools’ Collection, National Folklore Collection, UCD
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[Image courtesy of the Irish Seal Sanctuary]
Mír i liosta de ghnéithe topografacha
Is i mBéarla atá an buntéacs.
Entry in a list of Topographic Features
Seal Hole (Sell – local pronunciation)
Large cave, small entrance but larger below water. Inaccessible from land. It is approached from the sea by a deep channel about the width of the road. Seals are to be seen playing about there, and enter the cave below sea.
A small boat could enter it at low tide, but would probably be trapped by flood tide. It is said that this cave goes a long way into the land, and that there is a beach inside. The seals breed here. There is another ‘Sell hole’ at Broomhill on the Harbour side, called Poll na Rón.