Site Details
Longitude: -8.33833
Features of Interest
Coastal lagoons [1150]
Reefs [1170]
Perennial vegetation of stony banks [1220]
Atlantic salt meadows (Glauco-Puccinellietalia maritimae) [1330]
Mediterranean salt meadows (Juncetalia maritimi) [1410]
Embryonic shifting dunes [2110]
Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria (white dunes) [2120]
Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation (grey dunes) [2130]
Decalcified fixed dunes with Empetrum nigrum [2140]
Atlantic decalcified fixed dunes (Calluno-Ulicetea) [2150]
Dunes with Salix repens ssp. argentea (Salicion arenariae) [2170]
Humid dune slacks [2190]
Machairs (* in Ireland) [21A0]
Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and/or Isoeto-Nanojuncetea [3130]
European dry heaths [4030]
Alpine and Boreal heaths [4060]
Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands [5130]
Euphydryas aurinia (Marsh Fritillary) [1065]
Lutra lutra (Otter) [1355]
Petalophyllum ralfsii (Petalwort) [1395]
Najas flexilis (Slender Naiad) [1833]
Site Documents
Download Conservation Objectives
CO001141.pdf [7.51 MB]
Download Natura2000 form
NF001141.pdf [139 KB]
Download Site Synopsis
SY001141.pdf [166 KB]
Related Publications
| Title: | Rutland Island and Sound SAC (002283) Conservation objectives supporting document - marine habitats [Version 1] [1.55 MB] |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Rutland Island and Sound SAC (002283) Conservation objectives supporting document - lagoon habitats [Version 1] [973 KB] |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Rutland Island and Sound SAC (002283) Conservation objectives supporting document - coastal habitats [Version 1] [199 KB] |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | The conservation status of juniper formations in Ireland [7.14 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 [2.67 MB] |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Author: | Ryle, T.; Murray, A.; Connolly, C.; Swann, M. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Saltmarsh Monitoring Project 2007-2008. Volume 2 [16.54 MB] |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Author: | McCorry, M.; Ryle, T. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC (001141) Conservation objectives supporting document - Coastal habitats [Version 1] [2.55 MB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC (001141) Conservation objectives supporting document - Lagoons habitats [Version 1] [1.01 MB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC (001141) Conservation objectives supporting document - Marine habitats [Version 1] [610 KB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC (001141) Conservation objectives supporting document - Najas habitats [Version 1] [849 KB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Habitats Directive Annex I Lake Habitats, A working interpretation for the purposes of site-specific conservation objectives and Article 17 reporting [2.09 MB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | O Connor, Á., NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |