Rossbeigh, or Rossbehy (Irish: ''Ros Beithe'', meaning "headland of the

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trees") is a sandspit with beaches on either side, located approximately 1.6 km from the village of

Glenbeigh Glenbeigh or Glanbehy () is a town and civil parish on the Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. The parish includes Rossbeigh beach, Coomasahran Lake and a number of important rock art sites. Owing to its natural heritage, history and its ...

, in

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. It is on the

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, on the

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side of the

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. Rossbeigh contains a large volume of

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and

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vegetation. It is considered an important habitat for flora and fauna, including wildfowl (salmon and clam are locally farmed).O'Shea (2015), p. 4

Geography

Rossbeigh, along with the further inshore

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strand in the

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, and

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off the

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(an equally long spit with an equally complex and unstable sand dune systems), is one of three sandspits acting as natural barriers against the

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for

, which is relatively narrow and subject to strong wave forces and deposition of sediment.

Erosion

During the early 2000s, slow but prolonged erosion caused by changes in

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, wave height and length, and a reduction in sediment deposits, lead to the receding of some of the

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s. Rossbeigh was breached during a winter 2008 storm when a 1200 ft sand dune was collapse by the sea, splitting the breaking the former two-mile sandspit into two, effectively making the outer part of the spit a tidal island. The Rossbeigh Strand Tower, which had been a landmark to Castlemaine Harbour for over 100 years collapsed in February 2011. As the split acts as for Dingel bay, the collapse was described in 2020 as putting "homes across the bay at risk as climate change threatened even more frequent extreme events."Hoar, Padraig.
Special Report: Hope after all for Rossbeigh sand dunes destroyed by 2008 storms
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was optimistic that dunes would begin to build back up. In 2020 he said: "people think when you get erosion that the sand disappears, but the sand has to go somewhere. It is deposited — about 10m tonnes — further out, and we feel it will make its way back. There is a huge amount of sand sitting out there, and...we think...that it will eventually make its way back in here and you will get your dunes reforming".

Gallery

File:Sand dunes at Rossbehy - geograph.org.uk - 774137.jpg, Sand dunes leading to the "back beach" roadway File:Rossbehy dunes - geograph.org.uk - 774151.jpg, large beach sand dune File:Remains of a boat - geograph.org.uk - 774051.jpg, Remains of the 19th century "Sunbeam" boatWreck of 19thC schooner Sunbeam laid bare on Kerry beach
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, 10 January 2014. Retrieved 11 July 2021 Rossbeigh Strand Aerial Shot.jpg, Aerial view of Rossbeigh beach's head

References

Sources

* O'Shea, Patrick. "Monitoring and modelling the morphodynamic evolution of a breached barrier beach system".

, 2015

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