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• bathing freshwater
• bathing seawater
• bathing water
• bathing water quality
• beach
• beach quality
• environment
• environmental quality
• freshwater quality
• health
• human health
• human health and sa...
• ie
• splash
• swimming
• water

Theme	Health
Date released	2011-06-08
Date updated	2023-05-12
Dataset conforms to these standards	The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.
Rights notes	['no limitations', 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/', 'license']
Update frequency	Other
Language	English
Landing page	https://www.beaches.ie/
Geographic coverage in GeoJSON format	{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[-10.47472, 51.44555],[-10.47472, 55.37999], [-6.01306, 55.37999], [-6.01306, 51.44555], [-10.47472, 51.44555]]]}
Spatial Reference Systems (SRS)	TM65 / Irish Grid (EPSG:29902)
Vertical Extent	{"verticalDomainName": "EPSG Projection 5731 - Malin Head height", "minVerticalExtent": "0", "maxVerticalExtent": "1014"}
Provenance information	Each Local Authority in Ireland was asked to provide details of the bathing location in their area and XY points are created from the coordinates supplied. The coordinates supplied were standardised in 2011 to only include the exact monitoring location at each bathing water. Other attributes were added by the EPA. Register of Protected Area codes are unique incremental numbers (eg PA3_0125). IDBW (Bathing Water ID for reporting to Europe) is in the format set out in the Directive (County Code, River Basin District, BathingWater type (Lake ( eg. BWL) Coast, Transitional) Waterbody code and a unique 4 digit number.
Period of time covered (begin)	2011-01-08
Period of time covered (end)	2015-01-26