Site Details
Mayo
Longitude: -9.3357
Qualifying Interests
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]
Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara spp. [3140]
European dry heaths [4030]
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]
Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) [91E0]
Rhinolophus hipposideros (Lesser Horseshoe Bat) [1303]
Lutra lutra (Otter) [1355]
Hamatocaulis vernicosus (Slender Green Feather-moss) [6216]
Site Documents
Download Conservation Objectives
CO001774.pdf [13.5 MB]
Download Site Synopsis
SY001774.pdf [149 KB]
Statutory Instrument
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2023/si/639/made/en/pdf
Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)
MAP001774.pdf [116.2 MB]
Related Publications
| Title: | Irish Wildlife Manual No.70 - A survey of benthic macrophytes in three hard-water lakes: Lough Bunny, Lough Carra and Lough Owel [10.8 MB] |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Author: | Roden,C.; Murphy,P. |
| Series: | Irish Wildlife Manual |
| Title: | The development of methodologies to assess the conservation status of limestone [2.3 MB] |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Author: | Murphy, S.; Fernandez Valverde, F. |
| Series: | Irish Wildlife Manual |
| Title: | Pilot environmental impact assessment - Lough Carra East Vegetation Report [6.7 MB] |
| Year: | 1982 |
| Author: | Lockhart, N.; Ryan, J.B. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |