Ballyteigue Nature Reserve

Site Details

County
Clare
Area
6.4 ha
Established
1986
Coordinates
Latitude: 53.026
Longitude: -9.266
Ownership
State-owned

It consists of 5 parcels of wet meadow heath. These are being managed in the traditional way for hay making with the objective of maintaining them as examples of wet meadows found over the shale soils of the region. 

Animals and plants of interest
The habitat is primarily molinia meadows (wet grassland). The Marsh Orchid is found in abundance on the site. Hare, Snipe, Common Frog and Orange Tip Butterfly can also be found on the site.