viewpoint in Clare, Ireland

Flaggy Shore

A wave-flattened limestone shoreline on Galway Bay, immortalised in Seamus Heaney's poem 'Postscript'.

Worth the wander

The Flaggy Shore is a stretch of flat limestone pavement along Galway Bay in the Burren, between New Quay and Finavarra Point, named for the flagstones once quarried from its rock. It was made famous by Seamus Heaney's poem 'Postscript', which describes driving this shore 'in September or October, when the wind and the light are working off each other'.

Quick answers

Cost: Free
Time and distance: short walk or drive along the shore road, 30-45 min visit
Parking: Free roadside parking along the shore road

Find your way

New Quay to Finavarra, Co. Clare