Slaney River Valley SAC

Site Details

Site code
000781
Designation
Special Area of Conservation (SAC)
Counties
Carlow
Wexford
Wicklow
Coordinates
Latitude: 52.4488
Longitude: -6.55487

Qualifying Interests

Estuaries [1130]

Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide [1140]

Atlantic salt meadows (Glauco-Puccinellietalia maritimae) [1330]

Mediterranean salt meadows (Juncetalia maritimi) [1410]

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

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

Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) [91E0]

Margaritifera margaritifera (Freshwater Pearl Mussel) [1029]

Petromyzon marinus (Sea Lamprey) [1095]

Lampetra planeri (Brook Lamprey) [1096]

Lampetra fluviatilis (River Lamprey) [1099]

Alosa fallax fallax (Twaite Shad) [1103]

Salmo salar (Salmon) [1106]

Lutra lutra (Otter) [1355]

Phoca vitulina (Harbour Seal) [1365]

Site Documents

Download Conservation Objectives

CO000781.pdf [6.1 MB]

Download Site Synopsis

SY000781.pdf [158 KB]

Statutory Instrument

https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2023/si/637/made/en/pdf

Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)

MAP000781.pdf [314.5 MB]

Related Publications

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Title: Saltmarsh Monitoring Project 2007-2008. Volume 5 [8.1 MB]
Year: 2009
Author: McCorry, M.; Ryle, T.
Series: Unpublished Report
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Title: The status and distribution of lamprey and shad in the Slaney and Munster Black [1.1 MB]
Year: 2004
Author: King, J.J.; Linnane, S.M.; Marnell, F.
Series: Irish Wildlife Manual