Site Details
Longitude: -9.26822
Qualifying Interests
Reefs [1170]
Perennial vegetation of stony banks [1220]
Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation (grey dunes) [2130]
Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation [3260]
Alpine and Boreal heaths [4060]
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]
Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) [6510]
Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion) [7220]
Limestone pavements [8240]
Submerged or partially submerged sea caves [8330]
Petalophyllum ralfsii (Petalwort) [1395]
Site Documents
Download Conservation Objectives
CO000020.pdf [5.9 MB]
Download Site Synopsis
SY000020.pdf [137 KB]
Statutory Instrument
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2021/si/758/made/en/pdf
Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)
MAP000020.pdf [16.7 MB]
Related Publications
| 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: | The development of methodologies to assess the conservation status of limestone [2.3 MB] |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Author: | Murphy, S.; Fernandez Valverde, F. |
| Series: | Irish Wildlife Manual |
| Title: | Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex SAC (000020) Conservation objectives supporting document - Coastal habitats [Version 1] [640 KB] |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex SAC (000020) Conservation objectives supporting document - Marine habitats [Version 1] [630 KB] |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex SAC (000020) Conservation objectives supporting document – Water Courses habitats [Version 1] [507 KB] |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |