Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Rathmullan Point, SE Coast.

[Site list for year 1985]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19851013/21 Date: 1985-10-13 GPS: 54.24600,-5.72200. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Rathmullan Point is a barnacle dominated headland, with an extensive intertidal region situated between two sandy beaches. The intertidal substrate is sandstone ridges. There are wide shallow rock pools and ridge pools at all levels. The lower shore is fucoid dominated composed of boulders and rock ridges outcrops. The major sub habitat is a wide gully which cuts through the ridges in the lower part of the barnacle zone. Above the Pelvetia zone, the ridges have a good lichen cover which gives way to grassland and patchy shingle. Curlews and other shore waders present.

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