Site Details
Site code
002008
Designation
Special Area of Conservation (SAC)
County
Galway
Coordinates
Latitude: 53.5161
Longitude: -9.65979
Longitude: -9.65979
Qualifying Interests
Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains (Littorelletalia uniflorae) [3110]
Northern Atlantic wet heaths with Erica tetralix [4010]
Alpine and Boreal heaths [4060]
Blanket bogs (* if active bog) [7130]
Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion [7150]
Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation [8220]
Salmo salar (Salmon) [1106]
Najas flexilis (Slender Naiad) [1833]
Site Documents
Download Conservation Objectives
CO002008.pdf [5.7 MB]
Download Site Synopsis
SY002008.pdf [142 KB]
Statutory Instrument
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2021/si/431/made/en/pdf
Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)
MAP002008.pdf [18.7 MB]
Related Publications
| Title: | The status of Red Grouse in Ireland and the effects of land use, habitat and habitat quality on their distribution. Irish Wildlife Manuals No. 50 [10.7 MB] |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Author: | Cummins, S.; Bleasdale, A.; Douglas, C.; Newton, S.; O'Halloran, J.; Wilson, H.J. |
| Series: | Irish Wildlife Manual |
| Title: | Maumturk Mountains SAC (002008) Conservation objectives supporting document - blanket bogs and associated habitats [Version 1] [454 KB] |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Published |
| Title: | Maumturk Mountains SAC (002008) Conservation objectives supporting document - Najas flexilis (Willd.) Rostk. & W.L.E. Schmidt [Version 1] [905 KB] |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Published |
| Title: | Habitats Directive Annex I Lake Habitats, A working interpretation for the purposes of site-specific conservation objectives and Article 17 reporting [2.1 MB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | O Connor, Á., NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |