Site Details
Galway
Longitude: -9.03823
Qualifying Interests
Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide [1140]
Coastal lagoons [1150]
Large shallow inlets and bays [1160]
Reefs [1170]
Perennial vegetation of stony banks [1220]
Vegetated sea cliffs of the Atlantic and Baltic coasts [1230]
Salicornia and other annuals colonising mud and sand [1310]
Atlantic salt meadows (Glauco-Puccinellietalia maritimae) [1330]
Mediterranean salt meadows (Juncetalia maritimi) [1410]
Turloughs [3180]
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]
Calcareous fens with Cladium mariscus and species of the Caricion davallianae [7210]
Alkaline fens [7230]
Limestone pavements [8240]
Lutra lutra (Otter) [1355]
Phoca vitulina (Harbour Seal) [1365]
Site Documents
Download Conservation Objectives
CO000268.pdf [9.1 MB]
Download Site Synopsis
SY000268.pdf [151 KB]
Statutory Instrument
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2021/si/548/made/en/pdf
Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)
MAP000268.pdf [35.1 MB]
Related Publications
| Title: | Inner Galway Bay SPA (004031)Conservation objectives supporting document - [Version 1] [11.6 MB] |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Galway Bay Complex SAC (000268) Conservation objectives supporting document - turlough habitats [1.6 MB] |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Galway Bay Complex SAC (000268) Conservation objectives supporting document_lagoon habitats [Version 1] [2.6 MB] |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Galway Bay Complex SAC (000268) Conservation objectives sopporting document - coastal habitats [Version 1] [5.4 MB] |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Galway Bay Complex (000268) Conservation objectives supporting document - marine habitats [Version 1} [2.4 MB] |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| 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: | 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| Series: | Unpublished Report |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: | Saltmarsh Monitoring Project 2007-2008. Volume 3 [14.1 MB] |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Author: | McCorry, M.; Ryle, T. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Saltmarsh Monitoring Project 2006 [1.3 MB] |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Author: | McCorry, M. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Surveys of sensitive subtidal benthic communities [7.2 MB] |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Author: | MERC Consultants |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Surveys of sensitive subtidal benthic communities [4.0 MB] |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Author: | MERC Consultants |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |