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Bray north beach landfill (CLOSED)

Old dump ground, tidal Documented siteProhibited, look only

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: (historically: whole Dublin porters.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1860-1968

Ireland's best-documented bottle site - 100,000+ cubic meters of 19th/early-20th-c refuse eroding along the beach (Beachcombing Magazine). NOW CLOSED: sealed off after diggers undercut the tip face into a dangerous overhang.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Collapse-prone tip face

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