Wicklow Mountains SAC

Site Details

Site code

002122

Designation

Special Area of Conservation (SAC)

Counties

Dublin
Wicklow

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0842
Longitude: -6.37682

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

Natural dystrophic lakes and ponds [3160]

Northern Atlantic wet heaths with Erica tetralix [4010]

European dry heaths [4030]

Alpine and Boreal heaths [4060]

Calaminarian grasslands of the Violetalia calaminariae [6130]

Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on siliceous substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas, in Continental Europe) [6230]

Blanket bogs (* if active bog) [7130]

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]

Old sessile oak woods with Ilex and Blechnum in the British Isles [91A0]

Lutra lutra (Otter) [1355]

Title:	Wicklow Mountains National Park Management Plan [7.8 MB]
Year:	2005
Author:	NPWS
Series:	Conservation Plan

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:	Wicklow Mountains SAC (002122) Conservation objectives supporting document - blanket bogs and associated habitats [Version 1] [475 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Series:	Unpublished Report