Is this a tidal pool at Doolin Pier?

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Forgive me if this is a dopey question but I was at Doolin Pier over the summer and through the tide, I saw a diamond shaped man-made structure with a path going out to it. There was a family in it. I looked it up afterwards, expecting to find some reference to it somewhere but there is nothing. Google Maps gave me a clearer picture.

Is this a tidal pool? If so, has anyone hear ever swam in it? I'm just curious about it now.

My photos:





Google Maps image:

Gregor Samsa

It is. I know someone who was involved in its construction. My understanding is that it was an “unofficial” endeavour by locals. I haven’t used it personally.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

It is. I know someone who was involved in its construction. My understanding is that it was an “unofficial” endeavour by locals. I haven’t used it personally.

Thanks. Has it been there for long?

Gregor Samsa

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Thanks. Has it been there for long?

I can't remember for sure, but at least 10 years. A quick scan of my photos reveals shots I took of it in 2011, and it wasn't brand new then:



Edit: Actually, that Google Street View image is from April 2009. The concrete looks much fresher and the path is longer in the Street View image than in my one two years later (so part of the path must have been washed away by 2011).

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Ah, cool. It makes sense that it is pretty new because google turned up not one reference to it, although maybe I didn't search the right thing. Other manmade structures like this do have little bits written about them here and there, like the tidal pools in Bundoran and Belmullet. The one in Doolin had a family with small children in it when I was there. It'd be a nice place to bring little ones to experience the sea without worries of them getting pulled out to the ocean.

finbarrk

Took this pic last month.