Site Details
Site code
000147
Designation
Special Area of Conservation (SAC)
County
Donegal
Coordinates
Latitude: 55.1988
Longitude: -7.99593
Longitude: -7.99593
Qualifying Interests
Embryonic shifting dunes [2110]
Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria (white dunes) [2120]
Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation (grey dunes) [2130]
Dunes with Salix repens ssp. argentea (Salicion arenariae) [2170]
Humid dune slacks [2190]
Machairs (* in Ireland) [21A0]
Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and/or Isoeto-Nanojuncetea [3130]
Vertigo geyeri (Geyer's Whorl Snail) [1013]
Halichoerus grypus (Grey Seal) [1364]
Petalophyllum ralfsii (Petalwort) [1395]
Najas flexilis (Slender Naiad) [1833]
Site Documents
Download Conservation Objectives
CO000147.pdf [7.7 MB]
Download Site Synopsis
SY000147.pdf [139 KB]
Statutory Instrument
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2022/si/558/made/en/pdf
Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)
MAP000147.pdf [26.3 MB]
Related Publications
| Title: | Monitoring and Condition Assessment of Populations of Vertigo geyeri, Vertigo angustior and Vertigo moulinsiana in Ireland [3.3 MB] |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Author: | Moorkens, E.A.; Killeen, I.J |
| Series: | Irish Wildlife Manual |
| Title: | An Inventory of Mollusca in potential SAC sites [16.6 MB] |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Author: | Moorkens, E. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |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| Series: | Unpublished Report |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: | Horn Head and Rinclevan SAC (000147) Conservation objectives supporting document - Coastal habitats [Version 1] [2.0 MB] |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Horn Head and Rinclevan SAC (000147) Conservation objectives supporting document - Marine habitats [Version 1] [407 KB] |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Horn Head and Rinclevan SAC (000147) Conservation objectives supporting document - Najas habitats [Version 1] [532 KB] |
| Year: | 2014 |
| 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| Series: | Unpublished Report |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| Series: | Unpublished Report |