Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive) · irl
Lower River Shannon SAC
- Area
- 686 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Reported
- Year
- 2023
Overview
- Designation
- Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
- Established
- 2023
- Managing authority
- See European Environment Agency Geospatial Data Catalogue for more information - https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/be2142b0-7dc4-42e3-afac-f7cc5f1a9ac6
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 825 distinct species · 24 422 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Lower River Shannon SAC : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 75 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 13.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 3 lakes · 57 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
145,9km
Lake surface here
3,65km²
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
11 773km²
Discharge in basins
16,2m³/s
Mean precip.
1 120mm/an
Mean T°
9,8°C
Moisture idx
0,44
Max snow
16%
Mean runoff
942mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
83m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Doonbegsub-area1 025,3 km²overlap67.76 km²10%
- Bassin de Maiguesub-area2 026,4 km²overlap45.95 km²7%
- Bassin de Fealesub-area1 143,3 km²overlap23.06 km²3%
- Bassin de Ahaclaresub-area368,1 km²overlap19.82 km²3%
- Bassin de Mulkearsub-area697,5 km²overlap15.43 km²2%
- Bassin de Leesub-area982 km²overlap10.19 km²1%
- Bassin de Shannonsub-area263,2 km²overlap9.64 km²1%
- Bassin de Shannonsub-area304,6 km²overlap9.60 km²1%
- Bassin de Fergussub-area836,6 km²overlap4.15 km²1%
Lakes (3, top by area)
Rivers / streams (57, ord ≥ 4)
- Shannonord 6len here28.10 km8%total343 km
- Fealeord 4len here23.48 km27%total88 km
- Mulkearord 4len here11.97 km27%total45 km
- Bilboaord 3len here9.48 km35%total27 km
- Galeyord 3len here7.66 km14%total54 km
- Fergusord 4len here7.53 km9%total89 km
- Smearlaord 3len here5.88 km16%total37 km
- Maigueord 4len here4.88 km5%total105 km
- Oolagh Riverord 2len here4.03 km40%total10 km
- Gortnageragh Riverord 2len here3.85 km32%total12 km
- Allaghaun Riverord 3len here3.48 km17%total20 km
- Ballyteige Riverord 6len here3.15 km53%total6 km
45 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Carhernahillaord 1len here2.63 km23%total11 km
- Cloonord 2len here2.55 km36%total7 km
- River Owvegord 3len here2.36 km31%total8 km
- Tullaleague Riverord 1len here2.13 km41%total5 km
- Rine Riverord 3len here2.00 km14%total14 km
- Bilboa Riverord 2len here1.65 km37%total4 km
- Brickord 3len here1.42 km7%total22 km
- Iskule Streamord 1len here1.42 km28%total5 km
- Deelord 2len here1.33 km30%total4 km
- Claureen Riverord 4len here1.01 km11%total9 km
- Robertstown Riverord 2len here0.99 km4%total27 km
- Breanagh Riverord 2len here0.99 km11%total9 km
- Doonane Riverord 1len here0.94 km20%total5 km
- Deadord 3len here0.90 km8%total11 km
- Barnakyle Riverord 4len here0.86 km5%total18 km
- Deelord 4len here0.85 km2%total53 km
- Glenagharan Streamord 1len here0.84 km21%total4 km
- Killmastulla Riverord 2len here0.81 km4%total18 km
- Deelord 1len here0.67 km24%total3 km
- Killeenagarriff Riverord 3len here0.66 km10%total7 km
- Black Riverord 3len here0.57 km1%total60 km
- Lyracrumpane Riverord 2len here0.49 km12%total4 km
- Owengarneyord 3len here0.45 km4%total10 km
- Moyarta Riverord 1len here0.45 km11%total4 km
- Glenaord 1len here0.39 km11%total3 km
- Glashacooncoreord 1len here0.38 km6%total6 km
- Galey Riverord 1len here0.36 km8%total5 km
- Clareord 1len here0.34 km2%total19 km
- Ballynacally Creekord 1len here0.32 km9%total3 km
- Clashnamanee Streamord 3len here0.28 km5%total5 km
- Glencorbry Riverord 2len here0.22 km12%total2 km
- Ballycorick Creekord 2len here0.21 km4%total6 km
- Crompaun Riverord 1len here0.20 km15%total1 km
- Newport Riverord 2len here0.17 km5%total4 km
- Ballinacurra creekord 2len here0.15 km1%total15 km
- Groody Riverord 2len here0.15 km1%total18 km
- Mill Raceord 1len here0.12 km2%total7 km
- Crompaun Riverord 2len here0.09 km1%total11 km
- Glarkakip Riverord 2len here0.03 km1%total7 km
- Annagh Riverord 2len here0.03 km1%total2 km
- Clareen Riverord 2len here≈ tangenttotal5 km
- The Creekord 2len here≈ tangenttotal6 km
- Blackwater Riverord 6len here≈ tangenttotal17 km
- Eckaun Streamord 2len here≈ tangenttotal5 km
- Shanoword 3len here≈ tangenttotal13 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 52.55720, -9.77438
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.