Site Details
Longitude: -9.707
Qualifying Interests
Coastal lagoons [1150]
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]
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]
Natural dystrophic lakes and ponds [3160]
Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation [3260]
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]
Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels [6430]
Blanket bogs (* if active bog) [7130]
Transition mires and quaking bogs [7140]
Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion [7150]
Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion) [7220]
Alkaline fens [7230]
Siliceous scree of the montane to snow levels (Androsacetalia alpinae and Galeopsietalia ladani) [8110]
Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation [8210]
Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation [8220]
Vertigo geyeri (Geyer's Whorl Snail) [1013]
Vertigo angustior (Narrow-mouthed Whorl Snail) [1014]
Margaritifera margaritifera (Freshwater Pearl Mussel) [1029]
Salmo salar (Salmon) [1106]
Lutra lutra (Otter) [1355]
Petalophyllum ralfsii (Petalwort) [1395]
Najas flexilis (Slender Naiad) [1833]
Site Documents
Download Conservation Objectives
CO001932.pdf [25.6 MB]
Download Site Synopsis
SY001932.pdf [285 KB]
Statutory Instrument
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2023/si/551/made/en/pdf
Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)
MAP001932.pdf [113.3 MB]
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: | 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 4 [11.3 MB] |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Author: | McCorry, M.; Ryle, T. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | The status of Red Grouse in Ireland and the effects of land use, habitat and habitat quality on their distribution. Irish Wildlife Manuals No. 50 [10.7 MB] |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Author: | Cummins, S.; Bleasdale, A.; Douglas, C.; Newton, S.; O'Halloran, J.; Wilson, H.J. |
| Series: | Irish Wildlife Manual |
| Title: | Saltmarsh Monitoring Project 2006 [1.3 MB] |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Author: | McCorry, M. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Scoping study and pilot survey for a national survey and conservation assessment of upland habitats and vegetation in Ireland [13.0 MB] |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Author: | Perrin, P.M.; O'Hanrahan, B.; Roche, J.R.; Barron, S.J. |
| 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: | Mweelrea/Sheeffry/Erriff Complex SAC, Upland Survey Report [63.5 MB] |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Author: | Roche, J.R.; Perrin, P.M.; Barron, S.J.; Daly, O.H. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Mweelrea, Sheeffry, Erriff Complex SAC (001932) Conservation objectives supporting document - Najas flexilis (Willd.) Rostk. & W.L.E. Schmidt [Version 1] [887 KB] |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Published |
| Title: | Mweelrea, Sheeffry, Erriff Complex SAC (001932) Conservation objectives supporting document – Coastal Lagoons [Version 1] [938 KB] |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Published |
| Title: | Mweelrea, Sheeffry, Erriff Complex SAC (001932) Conservation objectives supporting document - Coastal habitats [Version 1] [3.1 MB] |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Published |
| Title: | Mweelrea, Sheeffry, Erriff Complex SAC (001932) Conservation objectives supporting document - blanket bogs and associated habitats [Version 1] [3.5 MB] |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Published |