Mweelrea/Sheeffry/Erriff Complex SAC

Site Details

Site code
001932
Designation
Special Area of Conservation (SAC)
County
Mayo
Coordinates
Latitude: 53.6668
Longitude: -9.707

Qualifying Interests

Coastal lagoons [1150]

Annual vegetation of drift lines [1210]

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]

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 waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains (Littorelletalia uniflorae) [3110]

Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and/or Isoeto-Nanojuncetea [3130]

Natural dystrophic lakes and ponds [3160]

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

Northern Atlantic wet heaths with Erica tetralix [4010]

European dry heaths [4030]

Alpine and Boreal heaths [4060]

Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands [5130]

Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels [6430]

Blanket bogs (* if active bog) [7130]

Transition mires and quaking bogs [7140]

Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion [7150]

Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion) [7220]

Alkaline fens [7230]

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]

Vertigo geyeri (Geyer's Whorl Snail) [1013]

Vertigo angustior (Narrow-mouthed Whorl Snail) [1014]

Margaritifera margaritifera (Freshwater Pearl Mussel) [1029]

Salmo salar (Salmon) [1106]

Lutra lutra (Otter) [1355]

Petalophyllum ralfsii (Petalwort) [1395]

Najas flexilis (Slender Naiad) [1833]

Site Documents

Download Conservation Objectives

CO001932.pdf [25.6 MB]

Download Site Synopsis

SY001932.pdf [285 KB]

Statutory Instrument

https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2023/si/551/made/en/pdf

Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)

MAP001932.pdf [113.3 MB]