| Knockmoyle Sheskin | |
| Location: | County Mayo, Ireland |
| Coords: | 54.18°N -9.551°W |
| Area: | 2960acres |
| Governing Body: | National Parks and Wildlife Service |
Knockmoyle Sheskin [1] [2] also known as Knockmoyle/Sheskin or Knockmoyle and Sheskin is an intact Atlantic blanket bog, national nature reserve and Ramsar site of approximately 2960acres in County Mayo.
Knockmoyle Sheskin was legally protected as a national nature reserve by the Irish government in 1986.[3] In 1987, the site was also declared Ramsar site number 372.
The reserve is a lowland blanket bog, an intact Atlantic blanket bog,[4] with a high density of pools which contain interesting flushes,[5] with some forming small acidic lakes. The site has a rich flora owing to the lack of burning or grazing, with well developed cover planting. An unusual feature of the site is small areas of Betula pubescens, and Homalothecium nitens, a rare moss. Other species recorded there include black bog rush, bog cotton, deer sedge, purple moor grass, marsh saxifrage, wild angelica, and marsh arrowgrass.[6]