SSE of Disaloughramer, Bloody Foreland to Horn Head.

Dive number: 950728/03 Date: 28 July 1995

Site Description: The site was located in a cave on the north-east side of a north facing headland on the north-west coast of Ireland. The cave was 12 m BCD in depth at the entrance and approximately 15 m in width. The bottom of the cave was round mobile cobbles and the bottom 1.5 m of the cave wall were smooth and bare except for an occasional Urticina felina and patches of Botryllus schlosseri. From 3 to 8 m BCD the sides of the cave towards the entrance were colonised by the sponge Leuconia nivea, Urticina felina, encrusting sponges and Bryozoa. As the cave narrowed towards the back, Clathrina coriacea, Salmacina dysteri, and Sagartia elegans were the most conspicuous species.

Map site - Google maps: 55.21517,-8.00817

Subsite: Vertical cave walls with encrusting sponges, bryozoans and tunicates. details

Subsite Description: Vertical walls of a cave with encrusting sponges, bryozoans, Salmacina dysteri, tunicates, in particular Botryllus schlosseri and the anemones Urticina felina and Sagartia elegans. Of the sponges Leuconia nivea and Clathrina coriacea were both common.

Leuconia nivea	Limacia clavigera	Aplysilla rosea	Actinia equina	Terpios fugax
Sagartia elegans	Oscarella lobularis	Clathrina coriacea, Metridium senile	Metridium senile, Tubularia indivisa	Aplysilla rosea	Clathrina coriacea
Zeugopterus punctatus					Necora puber
	Actinia equina		Clathrina coriacea	Metridium senile	Clathrina coriacea, Sagartia elegans