Site Details
Longitude: -9.85434
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]
Alpine and Boreal heaths [4060]
Blanket bogs (* if active bog) [7130]
Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion [7150]
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]
Old sessile oak woods with Ilex and Blechnum in the British Isles [91A0]
Margaritifera margaritifera (Freshwater Pearl Mussel) [1029]
Salmo salar (Salmon) [1106]
Lutra lutra (Otter) [1355]
Najas flexilis (Slender Naiad) [1833]
Site Documents
Download Conservation Objectives
CO002031.pdf [5.3 MB]
Download Site Synopsis
SY002031.pdf [143 KB]
Statutory Instrument
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2023/si/548/made/en/pdf
Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)
MAP002031.pdf [82.0 MB]
Related Publications
| Title: | The influence of the sea and of parent material on wetlands and blanket bog in west Connemara, Ireland [6.2 MB] |
| Year: | 1975 |
| Author: | van Groenendael, J.M.; Hochstenbach, S.M.H; van Mansfeld, M.J.M; Roozen, A.J.M. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |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: | The Twelve Bens, Garraun Complex SAC (002031) Conservation objectives supporting document - Najas flexilis (Willd.) Rostk. & W.L.E. Schmidt [Version 1] [937 KB] |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Published |
| Title: | The Twelve Bens, Garraun Complex SAC (002031) Conservation objectives supporting document - blanket bogs and associated habitats [Version 1] [458 KB] |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Published |
| 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| Series: | Unpublished Report |