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Portrane, Ireland

Landing Point · IE Ireland

1 Connected Cables 53.4932°N 6.1146°W Ireland
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Connected Cables
IE
Country
53.49°
Latitude
6.11°
Longitude
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Connected Cables

Cable Length RFS Status
Rockabill 221 km 2019 Active

About Portrane, Ireland

Portrane, Ireland is a submarine cable landing point in Ireland (coordinates 53.4932°, -6.1146°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Ireland's international connectivity infrastructure.

Portrane or Portraine is a small seaside village located three kilometres from the town of Donabate in Fingal, County Dublin in Ireland. It is in the barony of Nethercross in the north of the county. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

CableRFSLengthOwners
Rockabill2019221 kmeuNetworks

Connectivity profile

From Portrane, Ireland, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include United Kingdom. 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 Portrane, Ireland 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

  • Rockabill (2019) — Rockabill is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Ireland and United Kingdom. Landing at Portrane, Southport, 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.

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Landing Point

  • CountryIE Ireland
  • Coordinates53.4932°N 6.1146°W
  • Connected Cables1

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