Site Details
Kerry
Longitude: -10.0547
Qualifying Interests
Large shallow inlets and bays [1160]
Reefs [1170]
Perennial vegetation of stony banks [1220]
Vegetated sea cliffs of the Atlantic and Baltic coasts [1230]
Atlantic salt meadows (Glauco-Puccinellietalia maritimae) [1330]
Mediterranean salt meadows (Juncetalia maritimi) [1410]
Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria (white dunes) [2120]
Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation (grey dunes) [2130]
European dry heaths [4030]
Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands [5130]
Calaminarian grasslands of the Violetalia calaminariae [6130]
Submerged or partially submerged sea caves [8330]
Vertigo angustior (Narrow-mouthed Whorl Snail) [1014]
Rhinolophus hipposideros (Lesser Horseshoe Bat) [1303]
Phocoena phocoena (Harbour Porpoise) [1351]
Lutra lutra (Otter) [1355]
Phoca vitulina (Harbour Seal) [1365]
Site Documents
Download Conservation Objectives
CO002158.pdf [10.0 MB]
Download Site Synopsis
SY002158.pdf [253 KB]
Statutory Instrument
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2024/si/143/made/en/pdf
Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)
MAP002158.pdf [195.4 MB]
Related Publications
| Title: | Kenmare River SAC (002158) conservation objectives supporting document - marine habitats [Version 1] [2.6 MB] |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Kenmare River SAC (002158) Conservation objectives supporting document - coastal habitats [Version 1] [3.7 MB] |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | A survey of bryophytes and metallophyte vegetation of metalliferous mine spoil in Ireland [1.2 MB] |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Author: | Holyoak, D.T.; Lockhart, N. |
| Series: | Published |
| Title: | National survey and assessment of the conservation status of Irish sea cliffs [4.2 MB] |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Author: | Barron, S.J.; Delaney, A.; Perrin, P.M.; Martin, J.R.; O’Neill, F.H. |
| 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| Series: | Unpublished Report |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| Series: | Unpublished Report |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| Series: | Unpublished Report |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: | Surveys of sensitive sublittoral benthic communities in Kenmare River SAC Site Code 002158, Tralee Bay & Maharee Islands West to Cloghane SAC Site Code 002070 [3.4 MB] |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Author: | MERC |
| 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: | Bryophytes and metallophyte vegetation on metalliferous mine-waste in Ireland [1.5 MB] |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Author: | Holyoak, D. T |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Conservation Objectives Supporting Document, Lesser Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros) [539 KB] |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Published |