Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Ballygalley Head, NE Coast.

[Site list for year 1986]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19860916/22 Date: 1986-09-16 GPS: 54.89983,-5.84700. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: The site is situated at the southern end of a large bay which primarily has boulder shores but with the occasional sedimentary area. The transect is an igneous boulders with a limestone block scree outcrop and igneous steep rock outcrop nearby. the latter has an exposed zonation: encrusters (bottom), Mastocarpus; tufted fucoids; Patella; Hydropunctaria maura (recorded as Verrucaria maura) in the splash on vertical rock. The boulders extend all the way to the grass road embankment which backs the shore with no shingle layer apparent. The upper shore boulders have a good lichen flora. The location is fucoid dominated but generally patchy, although the transect site has a sheltered depression in the boulders which has much Ascophyllum, the rest of the site is Fucus dominated. The boulders towards the town have boulders covered with Hydropunctaria maura (originally recorded as Verrucaria maura). The only sub habitats are beneath the boulders and rock pools which occur in the depression and have coarse sand bottoms.

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