Large gorse fire on Cooley Peninsula may have started with camp fire

Pictures: Ciara Wilkinson

Members of the public had to be turned back this morning after they wanted to take pictures of damage caused by a large fire, flamed by the wind, on the Cooley Peninsula in County Louth that began yesterday afternoon.

Assistant Chief Fire Officer for Louth, Colm Lambe, has said that the Jenkinstown wood area, on the peninsula, “is a no go area. It is absolutely horrendous conditions and for any lay person coming down here, it is an absolute a ‘no-no.’”