Site Details
Site code
000326
Designation
Special Area of Conservation (SAC)
County
Galway
Coordinates
Latitude: 53.5187
Longitude: -8.55637
Longitude: -8.55637
Qualifying Interests
Active raised bogs [7110]
Degraded raised bogs still capable of natural regeneration [7120]
Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion [7150]
Site Documents
Download Conservation Objectives
CO000326.pdf [1.9 MB]
Download Site Synopsis
SY000326.pdf [127 KB]
Statutory Instrument
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2020/si/115/made/en
Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)
MAP000326.pdf [581 KB]
Related Publications
| Title: | An Inventory of Mollusca in potential SAC sites [16.6 MB] |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Author: | Moorkens, E. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Assessment of impacts of turf cutting on designated raised bogs [7.1 MB] |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Author: | Fernandez Valverde, F.; MacGowan, F.; Farrell, M.; Crowley, W.; Croal, Y.; Fanning, M.; McKee, A-M. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Raised Bog Monitoring and Assessment Survey 2013, Site Report [2.6 MB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Shankill West Bog SAC (00326) Conservation objectives supporting document - Raised Bog habitats [Version 1] [803 KB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Published |