Dollymount Strand Travel Guide

Immediately north of Dublin Harbour, DOLLYMOUNT STRAND , or Bull Island (bus #30 will take you out here, up the Clontarf Road), is one of the seaside areas most readily accessible to Dubliners. Designated, like Booterstown Marsh (in the south bay), a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Dollymount Strand is a spit of low sand dunes linked to the shore by an early twentieth-century wooden bridge. Apart from holidaying Dubliners, it's host to thousands of wintering wildfowl and wading birds and provides a stopping-off point for Arctic migrants. Birds are not the only interesting wildlife of Dollymount Strand: just a couple of miles from the centre of Dublin, there are foxes, shrews, badgers and rabbits, as well as a wide range of grass and plant species. You can find out more at the new interpretative centre , where the causeway road meets the island.