Began production in 1978, although is now in decline following its peak in 1995. Gas from here is combined with that from the
Bravo platform and from the sub-sea production structures in the
Ballycotton and
Seven Heads fields and pumped ashore to the Inch Terminal in County Cork.
Production ceased towards the end of 2019.
Kinsale Alpha and its undersea infrastructure (together with its upstream connections to
Kinsale Bravo and the undersea
Seven Heads gas field) have now entered a c 3 year period of decommissioning.
48/20B-West , Offshore Ireland 
Old Head of Kinsale , Munster 
Kinsale Harbour , Munster 
