THE little-known Kerry slug, which hit the headlines two years ago after getting in the way of a proposed bypass road in Ballyvourney, Co Cork, is about to get back in the news.

THE little known Kerry Slug has crawled its way into the spotlight following a recent decision to re-route a small section of a major new roadway linking Cork and Kerry.

When touched, Kerry slugs roll up into a ball, like a hedgehog, a habit still unique among Ireland’s 32 slug species. They can also stretch into a thin sliver of tissue, extending a nominal 8cm ...

The Kerry Slug -- a rare and preserved species mainly found in Kerry and Portugal -- also inhabits the Cascade Wood near Ballyvourney on the Cork Kerry border.It has distinctive yellow and white ...

A major bypass is being re-routed after Environment Minister John Gormley saved a woodland directly in its path containing ancient oaks and protected rare Kerry slugs. The woodland would have been ...

ANOTHER LIFE:IN 1842, A FEW years before the Famine and while Co Kerry still had a few native sea eagles to poison, a naturalist named William Andrews found a large and unfamiliar spotted slug ...

Kerry slug forces the rerouting of the Macroom bypass. Meet the slug that stopped a motorway in its tracks. A little known creature has crawled its way into the spotlight after forcing a rerouting ...

Among the many common Irish species including the garden slug, great grey and large black slug, we also have our Kerry slug, Geomalacus maculosus, first discovered in Co Kerry, in 1842.