Ballyhornan, United Kingdom

Ballyhornan, United Kingdom is a submarine cable landing point in United Kingdom (coordinates 54.3021°, -5.5594°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in United Kingdom's international connectivity infrastructure.

Ballyhornan is a small village and townland in eastern County Down, Northern Ireland. It is located along the Irish Sea coast, less than 10 miles from Downpatrick. The village had a population of 455 at the 2021 census. It lies near the site of the former RAF Bishopscourt installation, which closed in 1990, and much of the housing outside the boundaries of the traditional settlement was used by RAF airmen. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Ballyhornan, United Kingdom, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Isle of Man. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Ballyhornan, United Kingdom in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Manx-Northern Ireland (2000) — Manx-Northern Ireland is a point-to-point submarine cable linking United Kingdom and Isle of Man. Landing at Ballyhornan, Peel, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.