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Ballyquintin Nature Reserve (Portaferry)

Ballyquintin Nature Reserve includes Ballyquintin Point at the tip of the Ards Peninsula, County Down where the Irish Sea enters Strangford Lough. This reserve lies on a low, exposed, rocky coastline but the point is formed by a raised beach of shingle and cobble stones caused by the last ice-age.

Free entry, no car park charges

From Portaferry head south along Bar Hall road, which runs along the eastern shore of Strangford Lough. Ballyquintin Nature Reserve is the first turning on the right, three miles from Portaferry. 

  • open every day
  • part of the site management is grazing by livestock and ponies so either leave dogs at home or keep them on a lead at all times

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Find out more about Ballyquinitin National Nature Reserve

Other places of interest

  • Forests
  • Country parks
  • Parks and green spaces
  • Wildlife reserves and designated landscapes
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Nature reserves

  • Ballyquintin Nature Reserve (Portaferry)
  • Banagher Glen Nature Reserve (Dungiven)
  • Binevenagh Nature Reserve (Limavady)
  • Boorin Nature Reserve (Gortin, Omagh)
  • Breen Oakwood Nature Reserve (Armoy)
  • Cloghy Rocks Nature Reserve (Strangford)
  • Correl Glen Nature Reserve (County Fermanagh)
  • Glenariff Nature Reserve Waterfalls Walk (Ballymena)
  • Killard National Nature Reserve (Strangford Lough)
  • Magilligan Point Nature Reserve (Limavady)
  • Portrush Nature Reserve (Portrush)
  • Quoile Pondage Nature Reserve (Downpatrick)
  • Rea’s Wood Forest Nature Reserve (Antrim)
  • Rostrevor Forest Nature Reserve (Newry)
  • Wildlife reserves and designated landscapes
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