Species Detail - Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Irish Marine Turtle Records".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Caretta caretta
Loggerhead Turtle
Common Loggerhead Turtle
Protected Species: EU Habitats Directive || Protected Species: EU Habitats Directive >> Annex II || Protected Species: EU Habitats Directive >> Annex IV || Protected Species: Wildlife Acts
cacar
(Linnaeus, 1758)
reptile
Species
82
61
33
10/04/1884
23/11/2023
4 January (recorded in 2000)
23 December (recorded in 2015)
Gabriel King & Simon Berrow, Rod Penrose and Other Sources, Irish Marine Turtle Records, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta), accessed 22 February 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/114/Species/128438>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)