About Assaranca Waterfall
Assaranca Waterfall (or Eas a’ Ranca in Irish Gaelic; also called the Maghera Waterfall) is pretty much a roadside waterfall near the Maghera Strand and Cave.
Although there’s not much physical exertion required to access this waterfall, the tricky part is navigating the narrow, mostly single-lane 6.2km stretch of road supporting bi-directional traffic to get here.
Despite the accident-prone nature of this narrow road, we observed that there were lots of people (both experienced and inexperienced) driving it, which suggested that the falls (or at least neighboring attractions) was quite popular.
As for the Assaranca Waterfall itself, I’ve seen claims that it’s about 300ft high (roughly under 100m) but its sloping nature makes the waterfall appear shorter from its base.
I’m sure a drone or some kind of distant and/or elevated perspective from the Maghera Strand or the Loughros Peninsula might yield yield a better appreciation of the waterfall’s size.
However, we can’t really say anything more about those options since we didn’t get a chance to exercise them.
In any case, we spent a mere 20 minutes away from the car, and we kind of hastened our visit a bit because of a pretty squally rain storm that came up over the general area and hit the nearby town of Ardara pretty hard.
As alluded to earlier, access to the Maghera Strand and Maghera Cave (low tide only and paid attractions) was a short distance further to the west of the Assaranca Waterfall.
Unfortunately, we also didn’t have the time to pursue them either so we’ll refrain from saying anything more about them until we get a chance to come back and visit them.
Authorities
The Assaranca Waterfall is near the town of Ardara in County Donegal, Ireland. It is not clear if there’s an official governing body that presides over this waterfall. However, it seems like local landowners and town officials from Ardara may have been responsible for signs and road/trail infrastructure. For information or inquiries about the area as well as current conditions, you can try visiting the Ardara Tourism website.
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