Lough Corrib SAC

Site Details

Site code
000297
Designation
Special Area of Conservation (SAC)
Counties
Galway
Mayo
Roscommon
Coordinates
Latitude: 53.4349
Longitude: -9.17019

Qualifying Interests

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

Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and/or Isoeto-Nanojuncetea [3130]

Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara spp. [3140]

Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation [3260]

Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (* important orchid sites) [6210]

Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (Molinion caeruleae) [6410]

Active raised bogs [7110]

Degraded raised bogs still capable of natural regeneration [7120]

Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion [7150]

Calcareous fens with Cladium mariscus and species of the Caricion davallianae [7210]

Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion) [7220]

Alkaline fens [7230]

Limestone pavements [8240]

Old sessile oak woods with Ilex and Blechnum in the British Isles [91A0]

Bog woodland [91D0]

Margaritifera margaritifera (Freshwater Pearl Mussel) [1029]

Austropotamobius pallipes (White-clawed Crayfish) [1092]

Petromyzon marinus (Sea Lamprey) [1095]

Lampetra planeri (Brook Lamprey) [1096]

Salmo salar (Salmon) [1106]

Rhinolophus hipposideros (Lesser Horseshoe Bat) [1303]

Lutra lutra (Otter) [1355]

Najas flexilis (Slender Naiad) [1833]

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

Site Documents

Download Conservation Objectives

CO000297.pdf [21.0 MB]

Download Site Synopsis

SY000297.pdf [265 KB]

Statutory Instrument

https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2022/si/384/made/en/pdf

Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)

MAP000297.pdf [123.1 MB]