Site Details
Longitude: -9.7346
Qualifying Interests
Coastal lagoons [1150]
Reefs [1170]
Perennial vegetation of stony banks [1220]
Vegetated sea cliffs of the Atlantic and Baltic coasts [1230]
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]
European dry heaths [4030]
Alpine and Boreal heaths [4060]
Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (* important orchid sites) [6210]
Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) [6510]
Limestone pavements [8240]
Submerged or partially submerged sea caves [8330]
Vertigo angustior (Narrow-mouthed Whorl Snail) [1014]
Phocoena phocoena (Harbour Porpoise) [1351]
Site Documents
Download Conservation Objectives
CO000213.pdf [10.3 MB]
Download Site Synopsis
SY000213.pdf [269 KB]
Download Amendment Notification
AN000213.pdf [592 KB]
Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)
MAP000213.pdf [12.7 MB]
Related Publications
| Title: | Marine communities of Kilkieran Bay, the Aran Islands and the Skerd Rocks and an assessment of their nature conservation importance [4.2 MB] |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Author: | Sides, E.M., Picton, B.E., Emblow, C.S., Morrow, C.C., Costello, M.J. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| 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| Series: | Unpublished Report |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: | Inishmore Island SAC (000213) Conservation objectives supporting document - Coastal habitats [Version 1] [1.4 MB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Published |
| Title: | Inishmore Island SAC (000213) Conservation objectives supporting document - Marine habitats [Version 1] [977 KB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Published |
| Title: | Inishmore Island SAC (000213) Conservation objectives supporting document - Lagoons habitats [Version 1] [2.4 MB] |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Published |
| Title: | Inishmore Island SAC (000213) Conservation objectives supporting document - Harbour Porpoise [Version 1] [941 KB] |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Published |