This Site, located close to Wexford harbour in the south-east of Ireland, is comprised of flat farmland, mainly arable and pasture grassland, on an area known as the “North Slob”.  It also includes a brackish channel. The land is rented to farmers to farm in a way that respects the foraging requirements of wintering geese. The Reserve was established for the Greenland white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons flavirostris), the most numerous goose species at this Site, for which the Reserve is one of the two most important sites in the world, hosting 35% of the international population. More than one per cent of the bioregional populations of the whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus), light‐bellied brent goose (Branta bernicla hrota) and black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa) are also found at the Site along with nationally important numbers of other bird species. The Reserve has a visitor centre with a range of research, educational and monitoring activities and a Reserve warden.