Rossbeigh

Rossbeigh, or Rossbehy (Irish: Ros Beithe, meaning 'headland of the birch trees'), is a sandspit with beaches on either side, located approximately 1.6 km from the village of Glenbeigh, in County Kerry, Ireland.

[6] Rossbeigh, along with the further inshore Cromane strand in the Castlemaine Harbour, and Inch Strand off the Dingle Peninsula (an equally long spit with an equally complex and unstable sand dune systems), is one of three sandspits acting as natural barriers against the Atlantic Ocean for Dingle Bay,[7] which is relatively narrow and subject to strong wave forces and deposition of sediment.

[5] During the early 2000s, slow but prolonged erosion caused by changes in tidal range, wave height and length, and a reduction in sediment deposits, lead to the receding of some of the dunes.

[8] 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.

"[11] However, Jimmy Murphy, of the School of Engineering at University College Cork was optimistic that dunes would begin to build back up.