Main Valley Bogs SAC comprises of three lowland raised bogs which lie in the upper valleys of the River Main. The raised bog sites are located between the villages of Dunloy, Cloghmills and Glaryford and are individually designated as ASSIs.
These three active raised bogs support hummock, hollow and pool complexes, and notable peatland flora including Cowberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Great Sundew Drosera longifolia and the bog mosses Sphagnum fuscum, S. imbricatum and S. pulchrum. The most important feature of Dunloy and Caldanagh Bogs is the unbroken transition through a lagg, dominated by Purple Moor-grass Molinia caerulea, to swamp and fen along the River Main. This is the most extensive and least disturbed bog-to-lagg transition in Northern Ireland.
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