Site Details
Longitude: -10.1068
Qualifying Interests
Coastal lagoons [1150]
Large shallow inlets and bays [1160]
Reefs [1170]
Annual vegetation of drift lines [1210]
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]
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]
Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara spp. [3140]
European dry heaths [4030]
Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands [5130]
Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (* important orchid sites) [6210]
Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (Molinion caeruleae) [6410]
Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) [6510]
Alkaline fens [7230]
Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin) [1349]
Petalophyllum ralfsii (Petalwort) [1395]
Najas flexilis (Slender Naiad) [1833]
Site Documents
Download Conservation Objectives
CO002074.pdf [11.9 MB]
Download Site Synopsis
SY002074.pdf [190 KB]
Statutory Instrument
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2021/si/525/made/en/pdf
Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)
MAP002074.pdf [10.6 MB]
Related Publications
| Title: | Slyne Head Islands SAC (000328) Conservation objectives supporting document - marine habitats [Version 1] [1.0 MB] |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| 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: | Coastal Monitoring Project 2004-2006 [2.7 MB] |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Author: | Ryle, T.; Murray, A.; Connolly, C.; Swann, M. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Harbour Seal Population Monitoring 2009-2012: Report No. 2 [2010] [1,017 KB] |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Harbour Seal Population Monitoring 2009-2012: Report No. 1 [2009] [873 KB] |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Saltmarsh Monitoring Project 2007-2008. Volume 3 [14.1 MB] |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Author: | McCorry, M.; Ryle, T. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Surveys of sensitive subtidal benthic communities [4.0 MB] |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Author: | MERC Consultants |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Report on the conservation value of Irish coastal sites: Machair in Ireland [2.9 MB] |
| Year: | 1983 |
| Author: | Bassett, A. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Slyne Head Peninsula SAC (002074) Conservation objectives supporting document - Coastal habitats [Version 1] [2.7 MB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Slyne Head Peninsula SAC (002074) Conservation objectives supporting document - Marine habitats [Version 1] [811 KB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Slyne Head Peninsula SAC (002074) Conservation objectives supporting document - Lagoons habitats [Version 1] [582 KB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Slyne Head Peninsula SAC (002074) Conservation objectives supporting document - Najas habitats [Version 1] [845 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 [2.1 MB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | O Connor, Á., NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |