Ballyteige Burrow Bay Beach (Kilmore Quay)

 

Of international conservation importance, Ballyteige Burrow or the Burrow as it is locally known in Kilmore Quay, is one of the finest sand dune systems in the South East.

Walking along the shore provides opportunity to watch passing seabirds. Little terns occasionally nest on the beach at the western end. In the dunes, you will see meadow pipits, wrens, stonechats and linnets. In spring and autumn, wheatears and reed buntings pass through. In spring and early summer, the song of the skylark, a sound becoming scarce in much of the country, fills the dunes.