Little Deer Park ASSI
| Site Number | ASSI 323 |
|---|---|
| Area | 19.30h. |
| Declared Date | 27/11/2009 |
| Confirmed Date | |
| County | Antrim |
| Council(s) | Larne Borough Council |
| Keywords | Earth Science Species Rich Grassland |
Little Deer Park has been declared as an ASSI because of its species-rich dry grassland and earth science features.
Species-rich grassland tends to occur only where traditional farming practices have been maintained. Such species-rich grassland is now a rare habitat in Northern Ireland.
Little Deer Park stretches for approximately 1.75km along the shore road in County Antrim, located just to the south-east of Glenarm.
The site has a general east/north-easterly aspect and the slopes rise from 10m to over 70m in places.
The vegetation at Little Deer Park is typically grass-dominated, with an important grassland fungi assemblage. Spring-sedge is dominant, along with the grasses red fescue, sheep’s-fescue, false brome, sweet vernal-grass and crested dog’s-tail.
Herbs are common and quite diverse with wild thyme, eyebright, Lady’s bedstraw, fairy flax, common bird’s-foot-trefoil, mouse-earhawkweed, heath milkwort and harebell, all of which are frequent. Species such as bulbous buttercup are locally common.
Site Related Documents
Site map (.PDF 2.57Mb)
, Copy of Citation and Views about Management document (.PDF 356Kb) and Colour Leaflet (.PDF 265Kb).
