Several loads of sand from Limerick are booked to be poured onto the beach at Ballybay Beach in time for the summer holidays. Last year, the members of Ballybay-Clones Municipal District made the audacious decision to develop a beach along the fresh waters of Lough Major
The manmade beach has been a huge hit with families, young people and sun-worshippers but its shoreline needs some occasional manpower to keep it as sandy as the beach in Summer Bay. During a recent visit to Ballybay Beach with his family, Councillor Sean Gilliland noticed how sand levels had dissipated at the lough shore.
He requested that sand be topped-up and confirmed to Northern Sound that a delivery of fresh sand is now on its way to the popular Monaghan site. "I noticed the sand, especially from the water level up has, not disappeared but, has been washed back into the water as water levels lowered," Cllr Gilliland told Northern Sound, "The water dropping would've taken the sand back out with it; nearly like a tidal effect but not because it's fresh water in the lake but, it's that sort of principle. So, I identified that there were probably three or four loads needed to top up so, I raised it at the MD meeting yesterday ans I got confirmation that there is sand booked and ordered from Limerick.,"
