The Valley, Achill
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| Coordinates: 54°00′44″N 9°58′02″W / 54.01233°N 9.96730°WCoordinates: 54°00′44″N 9°58′02″W / 54.01233°N 9.96730°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | County Mayo |
| Elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
| Irish Grid Reference | L709089 |
Tóin an tSeanbhaile (Traditionally: Tóin a'tSean-bhaile, Colloquial English: The Valley/Tonatanvally) is a small village located on the north east point of Achill Island, Ireland. It lies within the Mayo Gaeltacht.
Tóin an tSeanbhaile is one of the flattest places on Achill Island, a shallow plain encircled by low hills which is bordered mostly by the sea, with Ridge Point to the north, and Sruhill Lough to the south. To the southeast lies the village of Dún Ibhir (Dooniver), to the west lies Dúmha Goirt (Dugort) and to the south lies Bun an Churraigh (Bunacurry). The bedrock of the area consists mainly of Schist and Gneiss, with lowland blanket bog to the south, and machair and rocky seashore to the north and west.
The area has a number of lakes, Lough Gall (Loch Geall, the bright lake), Loch na mBreac (The lake of the trout), Lough Doo (Loch Dubh, The black lake) and Sruhill Lough (a tidal lake). These lakes have healthy stocks of Brown trout, some sea trout, and Lough Gall is also artificially stocked with Rainbow trout.
A machair exists near Lough Doo, which has been designated a Special Area of Conservation by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, under the European Habitats Directive. The site itself is of international importance in the conservation of mosses and liverworts, with some scarce and rare species, Catoscopium nigritum and Fossombronia incurva, and is in fact the only location in Ireland that the liverwort Leiocolea gillmannii has been recorded at.
Much of the southern townland was designated a Natural Heritage Area by Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche, in 2007 because of its importance as a hyperoceanic blanket bog habitat.
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