Site Details
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]