Tralee Bay and Magharees Peninsula, West to Cloghane SAC

Site Details

Site code
002070
Designation
Special Area of Conservation (SAC)
County
Kerry
Coordinates
Latitude: 52.2677
Longitude: -9.94196

Qualifying Interests

Estuaries [1130]

Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide [1140]

Coastal lagoons [1150]

Large shallow inlets and bays [1160]

Reefs [1170]

Annual vegetation of drift lines [1210]

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]

Embryonic shifting dunes [2110]

Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria (white dunes) [2120]

Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation (grey dunes) [2130]

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

Humid dune slacks [2190]

Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (Molinion caeruleae) [6410]

Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) [91E0]

Lutra lutra (Otter) [1355]

Petalophyllum ralfsii (Petalwort) [1395]

Site Documents

Download Conservation Objectives

CO002070.pdf [5.9 MB]

Download Site Synopsis

SY002070.pdf [296 KB]

Statutory Instrument

https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2021/si/550/made/en/pdf

Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)

MAP002070.pdf [20.4 MB]