Ballycroy National Park

Ballycroy National Park is positioned within the Owenduff/Nephin Mountains vicinity of the Barony of Erris in northwest County Mayo, Ireland. It is one in every of the biggest expanses of peatland in Europe, which includes 117.Seventy nine square kilometres of Atlantic blanket lavatory. It is a completely unique habitat with a various vegetation and fauna. It turned into installed as a countrywide park on 1 November 1998. The area of the park is a candidate Special Area of Conservation as part of a website called the Owenduff/Nephin Complex. It is also a Special Protection Area and part of the Natura 2000 community.

The European Union Habitats Directive, which became transposed into Irish regulation in 1997, lists certain habitats and species that the Irish Government became required to designate as SACs to ensure their protection. These habitats consist of blanket bathrooms. The bog at Ballycroy is in particular essential on this regard because it's miles certainly one of the most important examples of a blanket bathroom habitat left in Western Europe. Ballycroy was mounted as a country wide park on 1 November 1998. It is controlled underneath the State Property Act of 1954.