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Geochemistry of streams sediments can be used to screen for rare minerals and thus help developing local resources. Knowing composition of stream sediments helps to understand what rocks were eroded by the water, where they came from and what resources they might contain....
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Water Framework Directive (WFD) Coastal Waterbody unit within Irish waters. According to the WFD Article 2(7) “‘Coastal water’ means surface water on the landward side of a line, every point of which is at a distance of one nautical mile on the seaward side from the nearest...
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This dataset shows the overall risk status result for transitional waterbodies (2008). The risk status was calculated as part of the Article 5 characterisation and risk assessment report carried out on all waterbodies. It identified those at risk of failing the objectives of...
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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...
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Corine Land Cover Changes 2006-2012 is a map of the changes in Irish environmental landscape between 2006 and 2012, based on revised Corine 2006 database. It is based on EU devised Corine (Coordination of Information on the Environment) specifications.
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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...
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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...
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This dataset shows the level of treatment of waste water and the quality of discharges from secondary waste water treatment plants in agglomerations (towns/cities) with a population equivalent of over 500 as required under The Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations, 2001...
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This dataset shows water quality monitoring and assessments carried out on Irish Transitional Waters for the Reporting period 2010-2012.
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Seascape effects of wind turbines up to 35km from shoreline are downloadable as GIS shapefiles.SEAI commissioned a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), completed in 2010, to inform policy-making in the Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan (OREDP). One set of SEA...
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This file contains original variables from Theme 6-1 Housing by from Census 2006 & 2011 and a series of additional variables produced by AIRO such as percentage rates, ratios etc. The file includes data on Type of Accommodation, Year Built, Number of Rooms, Water Supply,...
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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...
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Register of Protected Areas - Salmonid Water Regs Surface Water BodiesEnvironmental Protection AgencyEnvironmentWFD Surface 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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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...
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Bedrock is the solid rock at or below the land surface. Over much of Ireland, the bedrock is covered by materials such as soil and gravel. The Bedrock map shows what the land surface of Ireland would be made up of if these materials were removed. As the bedrock is commonly...
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The location of emission points from IPPC (Integrated Pollution Provention and Control) facilities (EPA Licensed, applied, closed etc.)
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Boundaries of all waste Facilities within Ireland that are or are going to be licensed by the EPA.
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Water Framework Directive (WFD) River Waterbodies (RWB) are the management and reporting units for the WFD. WFD RWB is a polyline shapefile dataset which is formed from a water flow routes dataset. Waterbodies are assigned types depending on their likely WFD status...
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A fishing port is a harbour that provides facilities to handle the coming and going of both large (>15m) and small (<15m) trawler vessels which carry seafood to shore for market. The 47 listed fishing ports around Ireland were provided by the Marine Irish Digital Atlas.
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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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