Site Details
Site code
000646
Designation
Special Area of Conservation (SAC)
Counties
Limerick
Tipperary
Tipperary
Coordinates
Latitude: 52.3668
Longitude: -8.14451
Longitude: -8.14451
Qualifying Interests
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]
Siliceous scree of the montane to snow levels (Androsacetalia alpinae and Galeopsietalia ladani) [8110]
Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation [8210]
Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation [8220]
Site Documents
Download Conservation Objectives
CO000646.pdf [7.1 MB]
Download Site Synopsis
SY000646.pdf [135 KB]
Statutory Instrument
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2020/si/116/made/en
Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)
MAP000646.pdf [16.2 MB]
Related Publications
| Title: | Galtee Mountains SAC [4.5 MB] |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Conservation Plan |
| Title: | A Preliminary Report on Areas of Scientific Interest in County Tipperary (S.R.) [2.2 MB] |
| Author: | Fahy, E.; Goodwillie, R. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Galtee Mountains SAC (000646) Conservation objectives supporting document - Upland habitats [Version 1] [3.3 MB] |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Published |
| Title: | Galtee Mountains SAC, Upland Survey Report [25.0 MB] |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Author: | Roche, J.R.; Perrin, P.M.; Barron, S.J.; Daly, O.H. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |