Site Details
Galway
Longitude: -9.0044
Qualifying Interests
Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara spp. [3140]
Turloughs [3180]
Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation [3260]
Alpine and Boreal heaths [4060]
Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands [5130]
Calaminarian grasslands of the Violetalia calaminariae [6130]
Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (* important orchid sites) [6210]
Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) [6510]
Calcareous fens with Cladium mariscus and species of the Caricion davallianae [7210]
Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion) [7220]
Alkaline fens [7230]
Limestone pavements [8240]
Caves not open to the public [8310]
Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) [91E0]
Euphydryas aurinia (Marsh Fritillary) [1065]
Rhinolophus hipposideros (Lesser Horseshoe Bat) [1303]
Lutra lutra (Otter) [1355]
Site Documents
Download Conservation Objectives
CO001926.pdf [12.5 MB]
Download Site Synopsis
SY001926.pdf [151 KB]
Statutory Instrument
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2023/si/463/made/en/pdf
Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)
MAP001926.pdf [158.9 MB]
Related Publications
| Title: | Irish Wildlife Manual No.70 - A survey of benthic macrophytes in three hard-water lakes: Lough Bunny, Lough Carra and Lough Owel [10.8 MB] |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Author: | Roden,C.; Murphy,P. |
| Series: | Irish Wildlife Manual |
| 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: | The development of methodologies to assess the conservation status of limestone [2.3 MB] |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Author: | Murphy, S.; Fernandez Valverde, F. |
| Series: | Irish Wildlife Manual |