Flaggy Shore
A coastal path beside New Quay village, paved with flat limestone slabs and made famous by Seamus Heaney's poem, with a small oyster shop at the far end.
Flaggy Shore lies at the northeastern corner of the Burren, beside the village of New Quay. The shoreline is made up of flat, layered limestone slabs. Inland, there is a freshwater lake with swans, and the area is famous from the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney's poem 'Postscript'. A roughly 3 km walk along the coastal path is quiet and rarely crowded. At the junction, Linnane's pub and the Flaggy Shore Oysters shop serve freshly shucked local oysters.
Admission is free, parking is limited, and it can be combined with a visit to Corcomroe Abbey.
Opening hours
All day
Nearby sights
- Corcomroe Abbey
- Ballyvaughan
- Aillwee Cave
- Poulnabrone Dolmen
- Burren Perfumery
- Caherconnell Stone Fort
- Burren National Park
- Black Head Coast Road (R477)