Killarney National Park Boundary Map

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Timpeallacht

South and west of the town of Killarney in Co. Kerry is an expanse of rugged mountainous country. This includes the McGillycuddy’s Reeks, the highest mountain range in Ireland which rise to a height of over 1000 metres. At the foot of these mountains nestle the world famous lakes

Connemara National Park Boundary Map

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Timpeallacht

Connemara National Park features circa. 2,000 hectares of mountains, bogs, heaths, grasslands and forests. It is the site of many great walks and awesome views. Western blanket bog and heathland are the predominant vegetation types. The largest mammal in the Park is the Connemara

Glenveagh National Park Boundary Map

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Timpeallacht

Glenveagh National Park is a remote and hauntingly beautiful wilderness of rugged mountains, pristine lakes, tumbling waterfalls and enchanted native oak woodland in the heart of the Derryveagh Mountains in the north west of County Donegal. At the centre of the Park on the edge o

Burren National Park Boundary Map

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Timpeallacht

The Burren National Park is located in the southeastern corner of the Burren. The word “Burren” comes from an Irish word “Boíreann” meaning a rocky place. It contains examples of all the major habitats within the Burren: limestone pavement, calcareous grassland, hazel scrub, ash/

Location of Group Hospitals

Department of Health

Sláinte

This dataset contains the lat/long location of the group hospitals

Remote Operated Vehicle

Marine Institute

Timpeallacht

Video Surveys using ROV

Collaborative Oceanography and Monitoring for Protected Areas and Species (Compass): Task 1 Ocean...

Marine Institute

Timpeallacht

The COMPASS buoy is located 2 km offshore from the Mace Head atmospheric research station in Connemara, County Galway. Initially installed in May 2018, sensors have been deployed for the measurement of Temperature, Salinity, Dissolved Oxygen, Nitrate, pH, and pCO2. In addition,

Offshore Landings Distribution by Gear Type

Marine Institute

Timpeallacht

Landings are defined as the part of the catch that is retained (not discarded) and landed. This dataset shows the distribution of landings by Irish vessels measured as average weight or value of landing per kilometre square, per year. Data from years 2014 to 2018 was used to prod

Irish Marine Non-Indigenous Species 2018

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology

Timpeallacht

In November-December 2018, GMIT was contracted by the Marine Institue (via Public Tender) to conduct a desk study on Irish Marine non-indigenous and invasive species. This is a requirement driven by international obligations to monitor the status and risks associated with invasiv

VERSION SUPERSEDED - Nephrops Underwater TV Survey FU22 The "Smalls"

Marine Institute

Timpeallacht

SUPERSEDED - The dataset was originally published with a doi in February 2020 but has been superseded by an updated version. This DOI has been superseded in May 2021 by https://doi.org/ 10/gc9t due to corrections applied to the dataset.

Nephrops norvegicus are common around the

CE12003 Cetaceans on the Frontier III Survey

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology

Timpeallacht

This multidisciplinary survey was conducted by Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Explorer, as part of the programme Cetaceans on the Frontier. ‘Cetaceans on the Frontier’ has become an annual research cruise, lead jointly by th

Nephrops Underwater TV Survey FU22 The "Smalls" North East Atlantic Ocean 2006 - Present

Marine Institute

Timpeallacht

Nephrops norvegicus are common around the Irish coast, occurring in geographically distinct sandy or muddy areas where the sediment is suitable for construction of their burrow dwellings. The Marine Institute carries out Underwater TV surveys annually of commercially important Ne

Seascapes Visual Resource Assessment - Sea Surface Visible from Land

Marine Institute

Timpeallacht

Sea Surface Visibility from Land (SSVL) provides an insight into sea surface location in terms of their visibility from land. A grid of observation points is generated extending 20km inshore and 35km offshore. These observation points at 500 m intervals, represent theoretical v

Seascapes Visual Resource Assessment - Land with Sea Views

Marine Institute

Timpeallacht

Visual Resource Mapping was carried for the Seascapes Character Assessment (2020) project to produce this dataset Land with sea views (LWSV). The data shows how visible a point on land is from the sea. The analysis was carried out for areas 20km inland and offshore up to 35km.

Marine Related Businesses per Electoral District

Marine Institute

Timpeallacht

This dataset shows how many marine related businesses there are per OSI electoral district. The number of marine related businesses per electoral area was extracted from the Marine Institute's Marine Related Business Directory. These figures were then joined with the Ordnance Su

Seascape Character Type

Marine Institute

Timpeallacht

Seascape character types are distinct areas that are relatively homogenous in character. They are generic in nature in that the may occur in different areas but share broadly similar combinations of geology, ecology, bathymetry, human influences and perceptual and aesthetic attri

Seascape Character Areas

Marine Institute

Timpeallacht

Seascape is defined as an area of sea, coastline or land, as perceived by people, whose character results from actions and interactions of land with sea by natural and/or human factors. GIS datsets from varying disciplines were gathered and analysed - bathymetry, geology, habita

Daily counts of seaward migration of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), trout (Salmo trutta) and Eur...

Marine Institute

Timpeallacht

The Burrishoole traps (on the Salmon leap and the Mill race) in Co. Mayo Ireland, capture every fish that migrates from the freshwater portion of the Burrishoole catchment to the sea, and are situated between Lough Feeagh and Lough Furnace. The traps are emptied every day, and fi

Mackerel and Horse mackerel egg surveys 1992 - present

Marine Institute

Timpeallacht

Every three years the ICES Working Group on Mackerel and Horse Mackerel Egg Surveys (WGMEGS) coordinates a major survey in the northeast Atlantic. These surveys cover the northeast Atlantic between the Gulf of Cadiz and currently the south coasts of Iceland and Faroes, between Ja

Water Framework Directive (WFD) Benthos Monitoring (Ireland)

Marine Institute

Timpeallacht

A requirement of the Water Framework Directive is that benthic macro-invertebrates must be sampled from coastal and transitional waters at least twice within a river basin cycle (6 years) in order to classify these waterbodies. Numerous samples will be taken from sites in matche