Site Details
Site code
000500
Designation
Special Area of Conservation (SAC)
County
Mayo
Coordinates
Latitude: 54.2803
Longitude: -9.64306
Longitude: -9.64306
Qualifying Interests
Vegetated sea cliffs of the Atlantic and Baltic coasts [1230]
Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria (white dunes) [2120]
Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation (grey dunes) [2130]
Humid dune slacks [2190]
Machairs (* in Ireland) [21A0]
Natural dystrophic lakes and ponds [3160]
Northern Atlantic wet heaths with Erica tetralix [4010]
Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands [5130]
Blanket bogs (* if active bog) [7130]
Transition mires and quaking bogs [7140]
Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion [7150]
Salmo salar (Salmon) [1106]
Petalophyllum ralfsii (Petalwort) [1395]
Saxifraga hirculus (Marsh Saxifrage) [1528]
Hamatocaulis vernicosus (Slender Green Feather-moss) [6216]
Site Documents
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: | Coastal Monitoring Project 2004-2006 [2.7 MB] |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Author: | Ryle, T.; Murray, A.; Connolly, C.; Swann, M. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Report on the conservation value of Irish coastal sites: Machair in Ireland [2.9 MB] |
| Year: | 1983 |
| Author: | Bassett, A. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |