Landing Point · IE Ireland
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| AEC-1 | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-06 through 2026-05-29 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #19582 | RIPE Atlas | 44 | 85.6 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 9 | 67.9 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 8 | 109.6 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 8 | 73.1 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 7 | 86.9 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 4 | 60.6 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 265.4 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 169.1 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 1 | 47.2 ms |
Killala is a village in County Mayo on the northwest coast of Ireland, situated north of Ballina. Despite its modest size, Killala serves as a submarine cable landing point, connecting Ireland to transatlantic cable infrastructure. One submarine cable lands here, linking Ireland directly to the United States and placing Killala within the broader transatlantic connectivity corridor.
The single cable landing at Killala, the AEC-1, establishes a direct intercontinental link between Ireland and North America. This positions Killala as a transatlantic terminus on the western edge of Europe, where the geography of County Mayo's coastline provides access to deep Atlantic waters.
AEC-1 is a submarine cable system spanning approximately 5,521 kilometres, with a ready-for-service date of 2016 (draft status). The cable connects Killala, Ireland to the United States, forming a direct transatlantic route. It is the sole submarine cable system terminating at this landing point.
Ireland hosts 16 submarine cables across 14 landing points, and Killala is among several single-cable landing points in the country. Other Irish landing points hosting one cable each include Ballinesker, Ballygrangans, Castlefreke, and Clonshaugh, while Kilmore Quay hosts two cables and Dublin leads with three. Killala ranks in the upper portion of single-cable landing points in Ireland by cable count, sharing that tier with multiple peers along the Irish coastline.
Killala functions as a single-cable terminus rather than a multi-cable hub, with the AEC-1 system providing its sole connection to the international submarine cable network. The cable's transatlantic reach to the United States means that Killala serves the Ireland–North America corridor directly, complementing other Irish landing points that connect toward Europe, the United Kingdom, and beyond. The northwest coastal position of Killala makes it geographically suited to transatlantic routes, where the shortest cable paths from Ireland extend westward across the open Atlantic.
Within the Irish submarine cable graph, Killala represents one node in a distributed set of landing points that collectively provide Ireland with 16 international cable connections. The presence of a dedicated transatlantic cable at this relatively small and remote village illustrates how submarine cable routing decisions are driven by coastal geography and route engineering as much as by the size of the nearest population centre.
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