School Catchment Areas Ireland 2

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Hello, I requested this in January already, but no response yet.

I'm Paul van Bommel of Geowox.com We are a service provider to mortgage providers, real estate companies, home builders, and private home buyers. We are looking to map school catchment areas in the Republic. Could you tell us what data exists?

Thank you, Paul Paul van Bommel Paul@geowox.com +353858068270

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Creator School Catchment Areas
Organisation Geowox
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Public Sector Body https://www.education.ie/en/
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We are a service provider to mortgage providers, real estate companies, home builders, and private home buyers.
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Created 7 years ago
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  • Open Data Team (Unauthenticated user) (7 years ago)

    According to the Forward Planning section in the Department of Education, they do not have a dataset on school catchment areas. They advise that ‘each school has its own enrolment policy which sets out the conditions and/or areas prioritised for enrolment in their school. This information is not held centrally by the Department of Education and Skills. The Department divides the country into 314 planning areas for demographic analysis and school planning purposes only, these areas do not necessarily reflect the enrolment policy of individual schools’.

    Open Data Team
  • Liam Tierney (Unauthenticated user) (7 years ago)

    There is no requirement for a school to publish a map or a bounds box of their catchment (these can overlap anyway and do widely)

    As every administrative unit in Ireland (townland or ed) is freely available on Openstreetmap there is no excuse not to do so now unlike trying to licence a map off OSI which is nightmarish at best and would bankrupt a school at worst. See townlands.ie for the data or look at this > http://maps.openstreetmap.ie/

    Why not simply mash up a map and let schools define the administrative units from which they catch students themselves (click on townlands and eds as appropriate) and then let them embed it on their own website and freely reproduce it. Just make sure you allow overlaps .