Site Details
Longitude: -8.40293
Qualifying Interests
Estuaries [1130]
Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide [1140]
Large shallow inlets and bays [1160]
Annual vegetation of drift lines [1210]
Atlantic salt meadows (Glauco-Puccinellietalia maritimae) [1330]
Mediterranean salt meadows (Juncetalia maritimi) [1410]
Embryonic shifting dunes [2110]
Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria (white dunes) [2120]
Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation (grey dunes) [2130]
Decalcified fixed dunes with Empetrum nigrum [2140]
Atlantic decalcified fixed dunes (Calluno-Ulicetea) [2150]
Dunes with Salix repens ssp. argentea (Salicion arenariae) [2170]
Humid dune slacks [2190]
Machairs (* in Ireland) [21A0]
Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains (Littorelletalia uniflorae) [3110]
Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and/or Isoeto-Nanojuncetea [3130]
Northern Atlantic wet heaths with Erica tetralix [4010]
European dry heaths [4030]
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]
Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (Molinion caeruleae) [6410]
Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) [6510]
Blanket bogs (* if active bog) [7130]
Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion [7150]
Alkaline fens [7230]
Vertigo geyeri (Geyer's Whorl Snail) [1013]
Margaritifera margaritifera (Freshwater Pearl Mussel) [1029]
Euphydryas aurinia (Marsh Fritillary) [1065]
Salmo salar (Salmon) [1106]
Lutra lutra (Otter) [1355]
Phoca vitulina (Harbour Seal) [1365]
Petalophyllum ralfsii (Petalwort) [1395]
Najas flexilis (Slender Naiad) [1833]
Site Documents
Download Conservation Objectives
CO000197.pdf [19.3 MB]
Download Site Synopsis
SY000197.pdf [160 KB]
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: | 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: | Saltmarsh Monitoring Project 2007-2008. Volume 2 [16.5 MB] |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Author: | McCorry, M.; Ryle, T. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Report on the conservation value of Irish coastal sites: Machair in Ireland [2.9 MB] |
| Year: | 1983 |
| Author: | Bassett, A. |
| 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 |
| Title: | West of Ardara Maas Road SAC (000197) Conservation objectives supporting document - Marine habitats [Version 1] [1.8 MB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | West of Ardara Maas Road SAC (000197) Conservation objectives supporting document - Coastal habitats [Version 1] [3.1 MB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | West of Ardara Maas Road SAC (000197) Conservation objectives supporting document - Najas habitats [Version 1] [953 KB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |