Buckroney-Brittas Dunes and Fen SAC

Site Details

Site code
000729
Designation
Special Area of Conservation (SAC)
County
Wicklow
Coordinates
Latitude: 52.8671
Longitude: -6.07644

Qualifying Interests

Annual vegetation of drift lines [1210]

Perennial vegetation of stony banks [1220]

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]

Atlantic decalcified fixed dunes (Calluno-Ulicetea) [2150]

Dunes with Salix repens ssp. argentea (Salicion arenariae) [2170]

Humid dune slacks [2190]

Alkaline fens [7230]

Site Documents

Download Conservation Objectives

CO000729.pdf [2.4 MB]

Download Site Synopsis

SY000729.pdf [152 KB]

Statutory Instrument

https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2022/si/67/made/en/pdf

Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)

MAP000729.pdf [4.5 MB]

Related Publications

Cover image
Title: Coastal Monitoring Project 2004-2006 [2.7 MB]
Year: 2009
Author: Ryle, T.; Murray, A.; Connolly, C.; Swann, M.
Series: Unpublished Report
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Title: Saltmarsh Monitoring Project 2007-2008. Volume 5 [8.1 MB]
Year: 2009
Author: McCorry, M.; Ryle, T.
Series: Unpublished Report