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Cranfield Point Rocks, Carlingford Lough.

[Site list for year 1985]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19851014/21 Date: 1985-10-14 GPS: 54.02300,-6.06583. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: A relatively sheltered boulder shore on the Cranfield Point headland. A rapid tidal current occurs in the Carlingford Lough narrows on the flood and ebb tides. The shore type is small boulders on top of sand, gravel, pebbles and stones, with a backing of shingle, on which there is a strandline of drift algae. The bulk of the intertidal has fucoid zone formers, although the extreme upper shore has a zone of Littorina on small boulders. The general trend is for the boulders to become larger and less numerous towards the low water. Cormorants, oyster catchers, terns, gulls, curlews were seen feeding.

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