Cuilcagh - Anierin Uplands SAC

Site Details

Site code
000584
Designation
Special Area of Conservation (SAC)
Counties
Cavan
Leitrim
Coordinates
Latitude: 54.1535
Longitude: -7.8834

Qualifying Interests

Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains (Littorelletalia uniflorae) [3110]

Natural dystrophic lakes and ponds [3160]

Northern Atlantic wet heaths with Erica tetralix [4010]

European dry heaths [4030]

Alpine and Boreal heaths [4060]

Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on siliceous substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas, in Continental Europe) [6230]

Blanket bogs (* if active bog) [7130]

Transition mires and quaking bogs [7140]

Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion) [7220]

Siliceous scree of the montane to snow levels (Androsacetalia alpinae and Galeopsietalia ladani) [8110]

Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation [8220]

Hamatocaulis vernicosus (Slender Green Feather-moss) [6216]

Site Documents

Download Conservation Objectives

CO000584.pdf [21.8 MB]

Download Site Synopsis

SY000584.pdf [142 KB]

Statutory Instrument

https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2022/si/469/made/en/pdf

Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)

MAP000584.pdf [90.3 MB]