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The harbour at Hodson Bay on a calm grey day, with a pier in the foreground and the long white Hodson Bay Hotel reflected in the water.
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Harbour Co. Roscommon

Hodson Bay

A sheltered harbour on the Roscommon shore beside the Hodson Bay Hotel, with an inflatable water park, a lakeside golf course and a live water-level gauge.

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Hodson Bay harbour

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About this mooring

Max. stay: At most 5 consecutive days, or 7 days in any month, at the same harbour (Shannon bye-law; all year unless you have a winter mooring)

Public harbour behind a breakwater beside the hotel; slipway, but no toilets, showers, pump-out or shore power.

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Mooring limit: 5 days in a row, 7 days a month

Public moorings on the Shannon Navigation and the Shannon–Erne Waterway: at the same public harbour for at most 5 days in a row, or 7 days in total in any month, all year round. A longer stay in winter (1 November to 31 March) needs a winter mooring from Waterways Ireland. Boater information from Waterways Ireland

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About Hodson Bay

Hodson Bay is a sheltered harbour on the Roscommon shore at the southern end of the lake, tucked in behind a breakwater next to the four-star Hodson Bay Hotel. Waterways Ireland lists a slipway here but no toilets, showers, pump-out or shore power, so it suits a lunch stop or a night with the hotel's bar and restaurant ashore. In summer the bay is busy: Baysports runs one of Ireland's largest inflatable water parks off the shore, with kayaks, paddleboards and a café, and Athlone Golf Club, founded in 1892, plays along the lake right next door. Viking Tours' cruises from Athlone call in here. The OPW's Hodson's Bay gauge, inside the harbour, gives a live reading of the lake level. Roscommon County Council has applied to double the marina as part of a waterfront park, with a decision expected by February 2027.

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≈ distances are computed along the water, not along the marked channel. Times are our estimate: 7.5 km/h and 15 minutes a lock.

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