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Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs - PROHIBITION OF SHOOTING
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The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs hereby gives notice that it
owns, leases or manages the shooting rights over the following:
1. The lands foreshore and adjoining waters of Lough Neagh between Six Mile Water and
Blackrock Bay and also between the field boundary 400 metres north east of Long Rock in
the Townland of Ballynaleney and the drain in the centre of Doss Bay, County Antrim.
2. Lands, foreshore and adjoining waters at Tolan’s Point Nature Reserve, Lough Neagh.
3. The lands owned by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs and
managed by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency as the Quoile Pondage National
Nature Reserve on the banks of the Quoile River between the old floodgates near the
Quoile Bridge and the tidal barrier at Hare Island, which island is also included.
4. The area known as Queen’s Lake adjacent to the Quoile Pondage east of the causeway to
Castle Island
5. Ballyquintin Point National Nature Reserve and adjoining Department owned
lands at Ballyquintin Point, Ards Peninsula, County Down.
SHOOTING IS PROHIBITED in these areas as is the taking of any game or wild birds. Legal
proceedings may be taken against any person shooting over these lands or waters.
August 2026
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