Irish Fen Inventory -

Categories of Fen

Fen Category Typical Site

Open-water Transition Fens
(Reed and fen communities on lake edges) Shores of Lough Neagh
or Lough Corrib

Floodplain Fens
(May occur within callows) Along the River Shannon or River Suck and tributaries

Basin Fens
(Fen areas in transition to more acidic bog types includes fens occuring in kettle holes) Scragh Bog

Valley Fens
(Occur in small shallow valleys, rare in Ireland) Pollardstown Fen

Flush Fens
(Soligenous moving water fen areas within larger peatland types, mainly blanket bog) Bellacorrick Iron Flush

Turlough Fens
(Fen vegetation with some peat formation within wet Turlough systems) Carran Turlough
Croaghill Turlough
Lisduff Turlough

Petrifying Springs with Tufa Formation
(Hard water springs with active formation of tufa, generally dominated by bryophytes) Ben Bulben
Pollardstown Fen
The Burren
Knocksink Wood

The project is being supported by The Heritage Council

Further Information and Getting Involved

Find out more about fens, the rare species found in them. You can find more background information on fens in Ireland here.

Support our campaign to see more of the fenlands and their wildlife protected - you can support the campaign further here.

Take part in our national Fen Inventory Project to identify all the important sites in Ireland that should be conserved. You can find out more about the survey, the fen types we are looking for and get a survey form here.

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