Main Valley Bogs SAC

These three active raised bogs support hummock, hollow and pool complexes, and notable peatland flora including Cowberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Great Sundew Drosera longifolia and the bog mosses Sphagnum fuscum, S. imbricatum and S. pulchrum. The most important feature of Dunloy and Caldanagh Bogs is the unbroken transition through a lagg, dominated by Purple Moor-grass Molinia caerulea, to swamp and fen along the River Main. This is the most extensive and least disturbed bog-to-lagg transition in Northern Ireland.