For Special Protection Areas (SPA),
Proposed Sites for Community Importance (pSCI),
Sites of Community Importance (SCI) and
for Special Areas of Conservation (SAC)
SITE | IE0002158 |
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SITENAME | Kenmare River SAC |
B |
IE0002158 |
Kenmare River SAC |
2001-10 |
2018-09 |
Name/Organisation: | National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht |
Address: | |
Email: | datadelivery@chg.gov.ie |
Date site proposed as SCI: | 2001-10 |
Date site confirmed as SCI: | No information provided |
Date site designated as SAC: | No information provided |
National legal reference of SAC designation: | No information provided |
Longitude: | -10.054286 |
Latitude: | 51.719924 |
43267.5000 |
94.3000 |
NUTS level 2 code | Region Name |
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IE02 | Southern and Eastern |
IEZZ | Extra-Regio NUTS 2 |
Atlantic | (0 %) |
Annex I Habitat types | Site assessment | ||||||||
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Code | PF | NP | Cover [ha] | Cave [number] | Data quality | A|B|C|D | A|B|C | ||
Representativity | Relative Surface | Conservation | Global | ||||||
1160 | 39322.3 | 0 | M | A | B | A | A | ||
1170 | 9196.38 | 0 | M | A | B | A | A | ||
1220 | 432.9 | 0 | M | B | C | A | B | ||
1230 | 432.9 | 0 | M | C | C | B | C | ||
1330 | 2.6521 | 0 | M | B | C | B | B | ||
1410 | 17.8996 | 0 | M | B | C | B | B | ||
2120 | 1.6667 | 0 | M | B | C | A | B | ||
2130 | 20.4082 | 0 | M | B | C | B | C | ||
4030 | 865.8 | 0 | M | A | C | B | A | ||
5130 | 1.189 | 0 | G | C | C | C | C | ||
6130 | 3.1 | 0 | G | A | A | A | A | ||
8330 | 432.9 | 0 | M | B | C | A | B |
Species | Population in the site | Site assessment | ||||||||||||
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G | Code | Scientific Name | S | NP | T | Size | Unit | Cat. | D.qual. | A|B|C|D | A|B|C | |||
Min | Max | Pop. | Con. | Iso. | Glo. | |||||||||
M | 1355 | Lutra lutra | p | 0 | 0 | P | DD | C | A | C | A | |||
M | 1365 | Phoca vitulina | p | 391 | 391 | i | G | B | B | C | B | |||
M | 1303 | Rhinolophus hipposideros | r | 150 | 150 | i | G | C | B | B | B | |||
M | 1303 | Rhinolophus hipposideros | w | 90 | 90 | i | G | C | B | B | B | |||
B | A195 | Sterna albifrons | r | 2 | 2 | p | G | C | B | C | C | |||
B | A194 | Sterna paradisaea | r | 20 | 20 | p | G | C | B | C | C | |||
I | 1014 | Vertigo angustior | p | 0 | 0 | P | DD | B | B | A | B |
Species | Population in the site | Motivation | ||||||||||||
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Group | CODE | Scientific Name | S | NP | Size | Unit | Cat. | Species Annex | Other categories | |||||
Min | Max | C|R|V|P | IV | V | A | B | C | D | ||||||
I | Acervochalina limbata | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Aglaophenia kirchenpaueri | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Amphiura securigera | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Chelonaplysilla noevus | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Clathria barleei | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Dercitus bucklandi | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Eunicella verrucosa | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Gymnangium montagui | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Hero formosa | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Isozoanthus sulcatus | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
P | Lithothamnion corallioides | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Lytocarpia myriophyllum | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
P | Naccaria wiggii | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Neocrania anomala | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Ophiopsila annulosa | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Pachycerianthus multiplicatus | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Paracentrotus lividus | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Phakellia vermiculata | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Pycnoclavella aurilucens | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Pyura squamulosa | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
P | Simethis planifolia | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
P | Stachys officinalis | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Swiftia pallida | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Tamarisca tamarisca | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Terebratulina retusa | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Tritonia lineata | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
I | Virgularia mirabilis | 0 | 0 | X | ||||||||||
P | Zostera marina | 0 | 0 | X |
Habitat class | % Cover |
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N10 | 1.00 |
N16 | 1.00 |
N04 | 1.00 |
N01 | 90.00 |
N07 | 1.00 |
N02 | 2.00 |
N03 | 1.00 |
N05 | 1.00 |
N08 | 2.00 |
Total Habitat Cover | 100 |
Kenmare River is a long and narrow south-west facing bay situated in the south-west of Ireland. It is a deep, drowned glacial valley, approximately 12 km wide at the mouth and 55 km long. Dursey Island marks the south-west point. The bedrock is mainly Old Red Sandstone with Devonian - Carboniferous marine clastics on the south-west coast. It is deeply fissured in a NE/SW direction. The bedrock is emergent throughout the length of the bay. Exposure to prevailing winds and swells at the mouth diminishes toward the head of the bay. Numerous islands and inlets along the length of the bay provide further areas of additional shelter in which a variety of habitats and unusual communities occur. The coastal fringe is dominated by a mosaic of dry and wet heath, along with patches of blanket bog, coastal grassland and exposed rock. The heath is particularly well developed at Derrynane Bay, which supports a fine dune system. Also present are small areas of deciduous woodland and fresh-water marsh. |
Kenmare River has very high conservation interest, with very good quality examples of large shallow bays, reefs, and marine caves. It has a very wide range of communities from exposed coast to ultra sheltered areas, and there is an extremely high number (24) of rare and notable species. The sea fan Swiftia pallida is only known in Ireland from Kenmare River, where it is recorded in several circalittoral sites. Eunicella verrucosa, a widespread but locally distributed sea fan, is recorded at two sites in the lower circalittoral reef. At both sites, it occurs with Swiftia pallida, the only place where this association is known to occur. Important habitat forming species present are the seagrass, Zostera marina, and the coralline algae, Lithothamnion corallioides, which form biogenic reefs. Kenmare River is the only area where the brachiopod, Neocrania anomala, is commonly found and, unusually, it occurs in exposed areas. There are two good examples of vegetated shingle banks, and at least 6 separate salt meadows, with both Atlantic and Mediterranean types represented. Shifting marram dunes, fixed dunes and dry heath, the latter with the legally protected plant Simethis planifolia, are well represented, while a small though significant example of vegetated sea cliffs occurs in the Derrynane area. The site includes many areas of coastal dry heath. There is a long established population of the mollusc Vertigo angustior in the dunes at Derrynane. The site includes areas of Calaminarian grassland about Allihies. The site has internationally important summer and winter roosting sites for Rhinolophus hipposideros. It also supports important populations of Lutra lutra and Phoca vitulina. Sterna terns breed on the islands, mainly S. paradisaea but S. hirundo in some years and S. albifrons at least in 1995. |
The most important impacts and activities with high effect on the site
Negative Impacts | |||
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Rank | Threats and pressures [code] | Pollution (optional) [code] | inside/outside [i|o|b] |
H | F02 | i | |
L | A04.02.01 | i | |
L | D01.01 | i | |
M | A08 | o | |
L | A04.03 | i | |
L | I01 | i | |
M | E01 | o | |
L | A04.02 | i | |
L | A08 | i | |
H | F01 | i | |
L | H03 | i | |
L | G01.02 | i | |
L | H01 | b | |
L | J01.01 | i | |
L | G01.01 | i |
Positive Impacts | |||
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Rank | Activities, management [code] | Pollution (optional) [code] | inside/outside [i|o|b] |
L | A04.02.01 | i |
Rank: H = high, M = medium, L = low
Pollution: N = Nitrogen input, P = Phosphor/Phosphate input, A = Acid input/acidification,
T = toxic inorganic chemicals, O = toxic organic chemicals, X = Mixed pollutions
i = inside, o = outside, b = both
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An actual management plan does exist:
Yes | ||
No, but in preparation | ||
X | No |
INSPIRE ID: | IE.NPWS.PS.NATURA2000.SAC.IE0002158 |