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The North Slob is an area of mud-flats at the estuary of the River Slaney at Wexford Harbour, Ireland. The North Slob is an area of 10 km 2 (2,500 acres) that was reclaimed in the mid-19th century by the building of a sea wall. It is the lowest geographical point on the island of Ireland.
In earlier times, the area occupied by the harbour was considerably larger than it is today, up to ten miles (16 km) wide at its widest point, with large mud flats on both sides. These were known as the North Slob and the South Slob from the Irish word slab, meaning mud.
Sito istituzionale. Modifica dati su Wikidata · Manuale. La contea di Wexford ( Contae Loch Garman in gaelico irlandese) è una delle trentadue contee dell'Irlanda tradizionali ed una delle 28 contee moderne della Repubblica d'Irlanda. Situata nella provincia del Leinster, costituisce la propaggine più sud-orientale della nazione e dell'isola.
English: The North Slob is an area of mud-flats at the estuary of the River Slaney at Wexford Harbour, Ireland. The North Slob is an area of 1,000 hectares that was reclaimed in the mid-19th century by the building of a sea wall. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. North Slob Pumping Station (2 F)
Enlarge image. The North Slob in Wexford was created in the middle of the 1800s by the building of a sea wall on the northern side of Wexford Harbour. Roughly 1,000 hectares of mudflats were reclaimed and this area was then turned into agricultural land similar to the Dutch polders. However, it is the remaining 200 hectares of the North Slob ...
The Wexford Sloblands provide an ideal environment to a large proportion of Ireland’s plants, birds and wild mammal species. Located to the north of Wexford Harbour, the Wexford Sloblands lie below sea level on flat polder land covering 1,000-hectares. Until the mid-1800s, 2,500 acres of mud flats and many small islands spread across Wexford ...
The North Slob holds about 5,500 or approximately 30% of the current world population of Greenland White-fronted Goose during these months. The birds and other wildlife on the Reserve can be watched from the 8 metre-tall observation tower and three other hides.
