Site Details
Site code
002111
Designation
Special Area of Conservation (SAC)
County
Galway
Coordinates
Latitude: 53.2809
Longitude: -9.73038
Longitude: -9.73038
Qualifying Interests
Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide [1140]
Coastal lagoons [1150]
Large shallow inlets and bays [1160]
Reefs [1170]
Atlantic salt meadows (Glauco-Puccinellietalia maritimae) [1330]
Mediterranean salt meadows (Juncetalia maritimi) [1410]
Machairs (* in Ireland) [21A0]
Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and/or Isoeto-Nanojuncetea [3130]
Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) [6510]
Phocoena phocoena (Harbour Porpoise) [1351]
Lutra lutra (Otter) [1355]
Phoca vitulina (Harbour Seal) [1365]
Najas flexilis (Slender Naiad) [1833]
Site Documents
Related Publications
| Title: | Kilkieran Bay and Islands SAC (site code 2111) Conservation objectives supporting document - Najas habitats [695 KB] |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Kilkieran Bay and Islands SAC (site code 2111) Conservation objectives supporting document - Marine habitats [3.3 MB] |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Kilkieran Bay and Islands SAC (site code 2111) Conservation objectives supporting document - Lagoons habitats [2.6 MB] |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Kilkieran Bay and Islands SAC (site code 2111) Conservation objectives supporting document - Coastal habitats [5.2 MB] |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Marine communities of Kilkieran Bay, the Aran Islands and the Skerd Rocks and an assessment of their nature conservation importance [4.2 MB] |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Author: | Sides, E.M., Picton, B.E., Emblow, C.S., Morrow, C.C., Costello, M.J. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Coastal Monitoring Project 2004-2006 [2.7 MB] |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Author: | Ryle, T.; Murray, A.; Connolly, C.; Swann, M. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |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| Series: | Unpublished Report |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 [6.8 MB] |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Author: | MERC Consultants |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |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 |