Ecology, Eco Tourism, bird watching, farms and wildlife in Southern Ireland.

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Ecology, Birds, Animal Farms & Wildlife

Enjoy a stay in one of five luxury holiday cottages on our farm, which is mainly tillage and grazing for cattle and sheep, with hens and guinea fowl to greet you in the farmyard. This quiet rural area has sweeping views of the Barrow Valley and Estuary with many interesting places to visit nearby.

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Hook Head:
Hook Head is an excellent sea watching and Passerine migration watch point for Swallows, Warblers, Flycatchers and Redstarts. Gannets, Auks, Choughs and Kittiwakes can be seen at all times of the year, with Shearwaters and Skuas in the Spring.

Raven Wood Nature Reserve:
Tacumshane Lake has many and varied wintering waterfowl present every year.

Shrule Deer Farm:
Ballygarrett, Gory, Co. Wexford
Deer farm with pets and unusual farm animals.

Wexford Wildfowl Reserve:
As many as one third of Greenland's White Fronted Geese winter here and large flocks of geese, ducks and wading birds arrive in the Autumn.
Use the hides and other developed facilities for bird watching or participate in one of the guided tours.

Fethard-on-Sea Beach

Duncannon Beach

Baginbun Head: Cliff nesting birds
Bannow Bay: Wintering waterfowl
Fethard on Sea: Herons, Brent Geese and migrant land birds
Kia Ora Mini Farm: Courteenacurragh, Gorey, Co. Wexford
A well supervised mini farm with a large selection of birds and animals including tropical birds, sheep, lama's, rabbits, chipmunks, pigs and emu.
Our Lady's Island: Nesting Tern

Our Lady's Island and Tacumshane Lake, Ballyteigue Burrow, Wexford Harbour and the Cull, Carnsore Point, Bannow Bay and the Hook Peninsula have all been designated with special ecological importance both nationally and internationally.

The plankton rich waters around South East Ireland have produced regular sightings of harbour porpoise, common dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, risso's dolphins and minke whales. Common and grey seals can also be seen on the Conningbeg and Brandie rocks.

The reclaimed land around Wexford Harbour are known as the North and South Slobs where half the world's greenland white fronted geese winter giving the area an international importance.