Landing Point · IE Ireland
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Havfrue/AEC-2 | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-11 through 2026-07-09 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 8 | 51.9 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 5 | 113.0 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 5 | 73.1 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 4 | 81.1 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 3 | 331.8 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 3 | 181.2 ms |
| #1016031 own probe | Kyiv UA | 3 | 53.7 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 2 | 85.5 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 2 | 76.5 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 61.0 ms |
| #1015932 own probe | Odessa UA | 1 | 61.3 ms |
Lecanvey is a seaside village in County Mayo, on the west coast of Ireland, situated between Westport and Louisburgh. Its Atlantic-facing position makes it a natural terminus for transatlantic submarine cable infrastructure. One submarine cable lands at Lecanvey, connecting Ireland directly to Scandinavia and North America via a single high-capacity transatlantic system.
The cable landing at Lecanvey is the Havfrue/AEC-2 system, which ties Ireland into a corridor spanning the North Atlantic and linking it to Denmark, Norway, and the United States. This places Lecanvey within a transatlantic and Northern European intercontinental routing path, enabling connectivity between Western Ireland and both continental Scandinavia and the eastern seaboard of the United States.
Havfrue/AEC-2 is a 7,650 km submarine cable system that reached ready-for-service status in 2020. In addition to its landing at Lecanvey in Ireland, the system connects Denmark, Norway, and the United States, forming a transatlantic route with Scandinavian branches. The cable's name reflects a consortium approach, with "Havfrue" referring to the Danish-Norwegian component and "AEC-2" to the broader transatlantic segment. Its 2020 RFS date makes it one of the more recently completed international cable systems to land on Irish shores.
Ireland's submarine cable infrastructure spans 16 cables across 14 landing points, and Lecanvey hosts one of those cables. Among Irish landing points, Dublin leads with three cables, while Kilmore Quay hosts two. Lecanvey sits alongside Ballinesker, Ballygrangans, Castlefreke, and Clonshaugh as single-cable landing points, together forming a distributed set of coastal access points that spread Ireland's international cable connectivity beyond the capital.
Lecanvey functions as a single-cable terminus rather than a multi-cable hub, with its entire international routing capacity represented by the Havfrue/AEC-2 system. Through this cable, the landing point enables a direct transatlantic path from the west coast of Ireland to the United States, as well as northward connectivity to Denmark and Norway. This positions Lecanvey as part of an emerging pattern of geographically distributed landing points in Ireland, where cable systems arrive at rural coastal sites rather than concentrating solely at major urban centres.
In the broader submarine cable graph of the North Atlantic, Lecanvey's role is to provide Ireland with a dedicated point of entry for the Havfrue/AEC-2 corridor, ensuring that transatlantic and Northern European routes are anchored at a distinct physical location on Ireland's western coastline, separate from the country's other international cable terminations.
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