You don’t see these every day.
The arrival of a large phallic shaped oddity on a Clare beach has understandably caused as much confusion at it has hilarity.
And it seems the ‘Lahinch Langer’ is not the work of mischievous visitors to the seaside, though we do wonder if it had just a little bit of help from some local humans.
Instead the large, undeniably penis shaped formation found on Lahinch beach on Sunday morning is in fact a rather odd shaped collection of goose barnacles and tentacles. We said tentacles.
According to a report on the Irish Daily Mirror, thousands of the barnacles attached themselves to a piece of floating sea debris, and it just happened to hot shore in a rather amusing shape.
The paper quotes Dr Eamon Doyle of the Burren and Cliffs of Moher Geopark, who has been down to have a look at the Langer.
“Normally you might see them attached to a log or even a floating piece of plastic, but I have never seen them in these numbers before.
“They need moving water to wash through them so they can feed. They don’t move around like other crustaceans.
“They are relatively common but this is the first time I’ve seen these numbers.”
The really bad news is if the barnacles don’t get back in the water soon, they will die, according to Dr Doyle. Surely we can’t let such a hilarious national treasure die?
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