Site Details
Cork
Kerry
Limerick
Tipperary
Longitude: -9.42806
Qualifying Interests
Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time [1110]
Estuaries [1130]
Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide [1140]
Coastal lagoons [1150]
Large shallow inlets and bays [1160]
Reefs [1170]
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]
Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation [3260]
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]
Margaritifera margaritifera (Freshwater Pearl Mussel) [1029]
Petromyzon marinus (Sea Lamprey) [1095]
Lampetra planeri (Brook Lamprey) [1096]
Lampetra fluviatilis (River Lamprey) [1099]
Salmo salar (Salmon) [1106]
Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin) [1349]
Lutra lutra (Otter) [1355]
Site Documents
Download Conservation Objectives
CO002165.pdf [7.8 MB]
Download Site Synopsis
SY002165.pdf [167 KB]
Statutory Instrument
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2023/si/328/made/en/pdf
Download Statutory Instrument Map(s)
MAP002165.pdf [630.1 MB]
Related Publications
| Title: | Lower River Shannon SAC (002165) Conservation objectives supporting document - marine habitats [Version 1] [2.9 MB] |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Lower River Shannon SAC (002165) Conservation objectives supporting document - coastal habitats [Version 1] [7.7 MB] |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Lower River Shannon SAC (002165) Conservation objectives supporting document - lagoon habitats [Version 1] [1.9 MB] |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Lower River Shannon SAC Conservation objectives supporting document - water courses [Version 1] [514 KB] |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Lower River Shannon SAC (002165) Conservation objectives supporting document_woodland habitats [Version 1] [37 KB] |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA (004077) Conservation objectives supporting document - Appendix 8.2 [Version 1] [14.5 MB] |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA (004077) Conservation objectives supporting document [Version 1] [2.2 MB] |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA (004077) Conservation objectives supporting document - Appendix 9 [Version 1] [1.9 MB] |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA (004077) Conservation objectives supporting document - Appendix 8.1 [Version 1] [14.5 MB] |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Author: | NPWS |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | National survey and assessment of the conservation status of Irish sea cliffs [4.2 MB] |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Author: | Barron, S.J.; Delaney, A.; Perrin, P.M.; Martin, J.R.; O’Neill, F.H. |
| Series: | Irish Wildlife Manual |
| Title: | Bottlenose Dolphin SAC Survey 2010 [1.2 MB] |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Author: | Berrow, S.; O’Brien, J.; Groth, L.; Foley, A.; Voigt, K. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | A survey of intertidal sediment biotopes in estuaries in Ireland [4.7 MB] |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Author: | Falvey, J.P.; Costello, M.J.; Dempsey, S. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Shannon Estuary and selected areas of the west-coast of Ireland. [1.1 MB] |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Author: | Ingram, S.; Rogan, E. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | An updated population status report for bottlenose dolphins using the Lower River Shannon SAC in 2008 [761 KB] |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Author: | Anneli Englund 1, 2, Simon Ingram 1, 2, * and Emer Rogan |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Saltmarsh Monitoring Project 2007-2008. Volume 3 [14.1 MB] |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Author: | McCorry, M.; Ryle, T. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Saltmarsh Monitoring Project 2007-2008. Volume 2 [16.5 MB] |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Author: | McCorry, M.; Ryle, T. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |
| Title: | Population status report for bottlenose dolphins using the Lower River Shannon [907 KB] |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Author: | Englund, A.; Ingram, S.; Rogan, E. |
| Series: | Published |
| Title: | Bottlenose dolphin survey in the Lower River Shannon SAC, 2018 [1.4 MB] |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Author: | Rogan, E.; Garagouni, M.; M. Nykänen, M.; Whitaker, A.; Ingram, S.N. |
| Series: | Unpublished Report |