Dundalk Bay
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Special Area of Conservation
Dundalk Bay is a Special Area of Conservation. Its important habitats are the intertidal sand and mudflats and the extensive saltmarshes. The area of sand, gravel and mud exposed at low tide amounts to over Script error: No such module "convert".. These are rich in polychaete worms, bivalve molluscs and crustaceans which are the main food for the tens of thousands of waders, gulls and waterfowl that feed here. As many as 20,000 birds regularly feed here and the site is of national and international importance for bird populations, and has been designated as a Ramsar site.[2]
The saltmarshes are characterised by sea-purslane and common cord-grass, with common saltmarsh-grass, thrift, red fescue, common scurvygrass, sea plantain and sea rush. On the seaward margin is much glasswort. There are also banks of pebbles and areas of shingle on the foreshore, with spear-leaved orache, sea mayweed, sea beet, sea rocket, wild carrot, sea holly, sea sandwort and sea radish, with some yellow horned-poppy and lyme-grass.[2]
Rivers
Rivers which flow into Dundalk Bay:[3]
- Several small flows from the Cooley Peninsula
- Flurry River (a.k.a. River Ballymascanlan)
- Castletown River (Template:Aka Creggan River) - 45 km (28 miles)
- Tributary - Cully Water River (Falmore River, Dungooley River) - 23.3 km (14.5 miles)
- Tributary - Kilcurry River (aka Forkhill River) - 18.5 km (11.5 miles)
- Rampart River, flowing through central Dundalk to join inner Dundalk Bay
- River Fane - 61.56 km (38.25 miles)
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- Tributary - River Dee - Script error: No such module "convert".
References
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- ↑ a b Inner Dundalk Bay. Central Fisheries Board, Ireland. Retrieved on 29 September 2008.
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Dundalk Bay Ask About Ireland
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