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Seabird Monitoring undertaken during the Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS) ...EnvironmentIrish waters represent one of the most important marine habitats for seabirds in Europe, utilized by a wide range of seabird species. However, the at-sea abundance and distribution of many of the seabird species occurring in Irish waters remains poorly understood. Under the EU...
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Seabird Monitoring undertaken during the Celtic Sea Herring Acoustic Survey (CSHAS) 2022EnvironmentUnder the EU Birds Directive, there is a requirement on member states to conduct surveillance of seabirds occurring within their waters. A standard line transect survey methodology was employed by the seabird observer with additional visual point sampling at fishing locations...
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Seabird Monitoring undertaken during the Blue Whiting Acoustic Survey (BWAS) 2021EnvironmentThe purpose of this project was to count seabird species occurring in Irish waters. A standard line transect survey methodology was employed by the seabird observer with additional visual point sampling at fishing locations and oceanographic sampling stations during the Blue...
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EnvironmentThe Grassland Monitoring Project 2006 represents the initial phase of a larger grassland survey which is designed to meet the monitoring and conservation objectives of the Habitats Directive. The Grassland Monitoring Project 2006 is initially focusing on the two priority...
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Habitat and management data collation and collection on callows and floodplain grasslandsEnvironmentThe project was organised into two distinct stages. Stage A involved the collection and collation of the habitat and management data on floodplain grasslands and was primarily a GIS task. Stage A included a review of appropriate management for callows and floodplain...
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Small Cetacean Site Survey Investigations 2008EnvironmentA survey of small cetaceans was carried out at three sites (Carnsore Point, Blasket Islands cSAC and Donegal bay) to derive density and abundance estimates using distance sampling. Single platform line transect surveys were carried out on three days at each between July and...
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The monitoring and assessment of three EU Habitats Directive Annex I grassland habitatsEnvironmentThe monitoring and assessment of three EU Habitats Directive Annex I grassland habitats, referred to as the Grassland Monitoring Survey (GMS), was a three-year survey conducted from 2015 to 2017 by BEC Consultants on behalf of NPWS. One hundred and ten EU Annex I grassland...
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Seabird Monitoring undertaken during the Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS) ...EnvironmentUnder the EU Birds Directive, there is a requirement on member states to conduct surveillance of seabirds occurring within their waters. A standard line transect survey methodology was employed by the seabird observer with additional visual point sampling at fishing locations...
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Seabird Monitoring undertaken during the Celtic Sea Herring Acoustic Survey (CSHAS) 2021EnvironmentIrish waters represent one of the most important marine habitats for seabirds in Europe and are utilized by a wide range of seabird species. However, the at-sea abundance and distribution of many of the seabird species occurring in Irish waters remains poorly understood. Under...
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Fossitt Fingal zoning dataset contains polygon areas attributed with zonning policy. This dataset does not provide full coverage of zonning policy for the Fingal area. Gerry Clabby is Fingal Heritage officer and can be contacted in relation to this dataset:...
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The aim of the NPWS Seabird Foraging Radii Project was to create a number of polygon shapefiles describing the geographic foraging range of 20 seabird species identified by the National Parks and Wildlife Service Birds unit. The polygons were centred around Natura 2000 SPA...
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EnvironmentThese grid data were derived from National Parks and Wildlife Service cetacean surveys within the Irish MSFD area and the EEA-10km GRID. The grid shows the current distribution of Harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) and Grey seal (Halichoreus grypus) in Irish coastal and marine...
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This dataset contains polygon data showing the location of the architectural conservation areas in County Roscommon. This forms part of the Roscommon County Development Plan 2014 - 2020. An architectural conservation area (ACA) is a place, area, group of structures or...
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The Register of Protected Structures is a statutory document maintained under Section 10 (2)(f) of the Planning and Development Acts 2000-2010. structures can be added at any time and not just on publication of the County Development Plan. This is a 'point' only dataset. The...
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National Monuments Service - World Heritage PropertiesEnvironmentThis dataset displays locational information for the UNESCO World Heritage sites Brú na Bóinne and Sceilg Mhichíl. It also contains the buffer boundary of Brú na Bóinne. All datasets have been recorded by the National Monuments Service on behalf of UNESCO as part of their...
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A protected structure is a structure that the Planning Authority considers to be of special interest from an architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social or technical point of view. The Planning Authority in its Record of Protected...
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A protected structure is a structure that the Planning Authority considers to be of special interest from an architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social or technical point of view. The Planning Authority in its Record of Protected...
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SeaRover 2017 ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) Holland videos exported at 720 resolutionEnvironmentSeaRover2017 ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) Holland (Marine Institute, Ireland) underwater video files collected during SeaRover 2017 research cruise onboard Irish Lights Vessel Granuaile between 4 July 2017 - 21 July 2017. SeaRover stands for Sensitive Ecosystem Assessment...
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The EU Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) (WFD) establishes a framework for the protection, improvement and management of surface waters and groundwaters. A new WFD lake catchment layer was created in 2022. New lake catchments were delineated for every WFD lake from the...
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This dataset contains the status results for lake waterbodies (LWB) and status assigned to unmonitored WFD LWBs as part of the EU Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) with the objectives to achieve or maintain at least good ecological status and good chemical status