Loughmoney ASSI

Topics:

Biodiversity,
Protected areas

Protected area type: Areas of Special Scientific Interest

Feature type: Habitat

County: Down

Council: Derry and Strabane

Guidance and literature: Loughmoney ASSI

Loughmoney is a small site occupying a depression at the junction of three pasture fields and influenced from the surrounding improved pasture.

There is only a limited area of diverse fen on the site, which occupies a small area at the southern end and narrow margins to the north. It is highly grazed, short vegetation with blunt flowered rush and lesser water parsnip. Quite species-diverse but possibly nutrient enriched. The bulk of the site is great fen sedge swamp as a mono-species stand, probably the largest area of Cladium in Down and Armagh.

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Loughmoney ASSI

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