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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. [1]
County Wexford. The North Slob (from the Irish slab, meaning 'mud' or 'mire') is a large area of reclaimed land to the north of Wexford harbour, drained by ditches and protected by Dutch-style dykes. It's prime birdwatching territory – home to 35% of the world's population of Greenland white-fronted geese each winter, some 10,000 in total.
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 banks were eight feet (2.5 metres) wide at the top and enclosed more than 2,400 acres. By 1849 the North Slob project had been completed, conquering what had appeared to be insurmountable natural impediments along the way. In 1850 and 1851 the land was ploughed and prepared for cultivation.
The North Slob is a hare reserve, protecting a fluctuating population of Irish Hares (picture), which belong to a distinctive race of the European Mountain Hare. Unlike the Mountain Hares in other, more northerly countries, Irish Hares rarely turn white in winter, remaining a warm russet brown with white ear-fringes and pale eye-rings.
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 ...
