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Significant pressures have been identified for waterbodies that are At Risk of not meeting their water quality objectives under the Water Framework Directive. While there are a multitude of pressures in every waterbody, the significant pressures are those pressures which need to
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This GIS dataset holds records for Pine marten as stored in the species database held by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Records stem from a variety of data sources, which can be viewed in the shapefile attribute table.
As the records come from different sources, no com
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SWAN (Simulating Waves Nearshore) is a third-generation wave model which was primarily developed for use in coastal regions. The operational East_Atlantic model used to generate this dataset was an implementation of the SWAN model for Irish waters. The East Atlantic SWAN Wave Mod
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Data showing connector cable from Wicklow coastline to Arklow Bank Wind turbines was created in support of Marine Strategy Franework Directive article 8, 9 10 reporting.
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This review presents information on the status of selected shellfish stocks in Ireland. In addition data on the fleet (<13m) and landings for all species of shellfish (excluding Nephrops) are presented. The intention of the annual reviews is to present stock assessment and sci
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Register of Protected Areas - Nutrient Sensitive Areas River WaterbodiesEnvironment
WFD River Waterbodies intersecting with designated Nutrient Sensitive Areas waterbodies in accordance with the Urban Waste Water Treatment (UWWT) Directive 91/271/EEC on Urban Waste Water Treatment and S.I. 254 / 2001, S.I. 440/2004 and S.I. 48/2010.
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Significant pressures have been identified for waterbodies that are At Risk of not meeting their water quality objectives under the Water Framework Directive. While there are a multitude of pressures in every waterbody, the significant pressures are those pressures which need to
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Environment
SUPERSEDED - The version has been superseded. And a new edition is now available under the Atlas of Commercial Fisheries around Ireland, Fourth Edition, 2024.
This atlas provides a series of detailed maps of commercial fishing activity around Ireland with the aim of providing ins
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Environment
Corine Land Cover 2000 is a map of the Irish environmental landscape based on interpretation of satellite images based on EC established CORINE (Coordination of Information on the Environment) specifications.
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National Survey of Limestone Pavement and Associated Habitats in IrelandEnvironment
This project completed a detailed field survey of 26 limestone pavement and associated habitat monitoring sites, and 17 proposed Natural Heritage Area (pNHA) sites. Several 100m x 100m (1ha) plots were selected within each monitoring site. The habitats within each plot were mappe
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Environment
WFD Ground Water Bodies intersecting with WFD Designated Salmonid Waters under S.I. No. 293/1988 - European Communities (Quality of Salmonid Waters) Regulations 1988, 14th August 1988
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Environment
This is a point data set of the location of urban waste water emission points.
In terms of usage of this dataset please note that there is a period of time between when emission locations are licensed and when they appear in this dataset.
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The location of monitoring points from Waste facilities (EPA Licensed, applied, closed etc.)
In terms of usage of this dataset please note that there is a period of time between when a monitoring point is licensed and when it appears in this dataset.
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This dataset contains all the overall interim transitional waterbody status results, monitored as part of the EU Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) objectives to achieve or maintain at least good ecological status and good chemical status by 2015.
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Marine Strategy Framework Directive Marine WatersEnvironment
The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) Assessment Area is the geographic area management and reporting unit for Ireland's MSFD reporting. The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) is European legislation, which aims to protect the marine environment. It requires the
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This shows the urban areas where waste water discharges were a contributing factor to the poor classification of the bathing waters, as identified in the EPA’s annual Bathing Water Quality in Ireland Report. When bathing waters are classified as poor it means that there is a ris
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SIS SOIL:The new Irish Soil Information System concludes a 5 year programme, supported by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency (STRIVE Research Programme 2007-2013) and Teagasc, to develop a new 1:250,000 scale national soil map (http://soils.teagasc.ie). The Irish Soil Info
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Environment
Phytoplankton are the autotrophic (self-feeding) components of the plankton community and a key part of oceans, seas and freshwater basin ecosystems. The name comes from the Greek words phyton, meaning plant and planktos, meaning wanderer or drifter. Most phytoplankton are too sm