Site Details
Site code
000252
Designation
Special Area of Conservation (SAC)
County
Galway
Coordinates
Latitude: 53.087
Longitude: -8.85186
Longitude: -8.85186
Qualifying Interests
Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition - type vegetation [3150]
Turloughs [3180]
Rivers with muddy banks with Chenopodion rubri p.p. and Bidention p.p. vegetation [3270]
Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands [5130]
Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (* important orchid sites) [6210]
Limestone pavements [8240]
Taxus baccata woods of the British Isles [91J0]
Rhinolophus hipposideros (Lesser Horseshoe Bat) [1303]
Site Documents
Download Conservation Objectives
CO000252.pdf [9.0 MB]
Download Site Synopsis
SY000252.pdf [257 KB]
Statutory Instrument
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2022/si/470/made/en/pdf
Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)
MAP000252.pdf [29.3 MB]
Related Publications
| Title: | The conservation status of juniper formations in Ireland [7.1 MB] |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Author: | Cooper, F., Stone, R.E., McEvoy, P., Wilkins, T., Reid, N. |
| Series: | Irish Wildlife Manual |
| Title: | Turloughs over 10ha. - Vegetation survey and evaluation [9.6 MB] |
| Year: | 1992 |
| Author: | Goodwillie, R. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |