AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
WFD Canal Waterbodies

Water Framework Directive (WFD) Canal Waterbodies are the management and reporting units for the WFD. This is a polyline shapefile dataset which is formed from a Waterways Ireland Canal Polygon dataset and river network dataset. These canal waterbodies are also included in the overall River Waterbodies (RWB) WFD dataset. Each waterbody has a unique identifier (EU_CD) so the dataset can be linked directly to other WFD data sources such as physical characteristics, risk, classification and other objectives.

Tags: canal, canal waterbodies, canal waterbody, canal wfd waterbody, environment, hydrography, ie, river waterbodies, river waterbody, river waters, rwb, water framework directive, wfd
Organization: Waterways Ireland
Karst

Karst is a term used world-wide to describe the distinctive landforms that develop on rock types that are readily dissolved by water. In Ireland, limestone (composed of calcium carbonate) and to a lesser extent dolomite (calcium and magnesium carbonate) are by far the most widespread rocks that show karst features. There is also a small outcrop of a younger softer rock also made of calcium carbonate – the chalk of Co. Antrim – which shows some of the features characteristic of karstic terrains. In other parts of the world, highly soluble rocks such as gypsum (calcium sulphate) and halite (common salt or sodium chloride) are abundant and they also exhibit karstic landforms

For further information visit;
http://www.gsi.ie/Programmes/Groundwater/Karst+Booklet/01-what-is.htm.htm

Tags: coastal heritage, geology, geoscientificinformation, heritage council, karst, science
Organization: Heritage Council
Bathing Water Locations

The location of and other information about (a) identified bathing waters (beaches and lakes) under the Bathing Water Quality Directive 2006/7/EC which is implemented in Ireland through the Bathing Water Quality Regulations 2008, and (b) other monitored waters not managed under the Regulations (non-identified bathing waters).

Tags: bathing, bathing seawater, bathing water, bathing water quality, beach, beach amenities, beach description, beach facilities, beach profile, beach quality, designated, environment, environmental quality, health, health and wellbeing, human health, human health and safety, identified, ie, lake, sea, seawater, swimming, water, wellbeing
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
PRTR: Production and processing of metals

The PRTR Production and Processing of Metals sector includes the following activities:
(a) Metal ore (including sulphide ore) roasting or sintering installations.
(b) Installations for the production of pig iron or steel (primary or secondary melting) including continuous casting with a capacity of 2.5 tonnes per hour.
(c) Installations for the processing of ferrous metals:
(i) Hot-rolling mills with a capacity of 20 tonnes of crude steel per hour;
(ii) Smitheries with hammers with an energy of 50 kilojoules per hammer, where the calorific power used exceeds 20 MW;
(iii) Application of protective fused metal coats with an input of 2 tonnes of crude steel per hour.
(d) Ferrous metal foundries with a production capacity of 20 tonnes per day.
(e) Installations:
(i) For the production of non-ferrous crude metals from ore, concentrates or secondary raw materials by metallurgical, chemical or electrolytic processes;
(ii) For the smelting, including the alloying, of non-ferrous metals, including recovered products (refining, foundry casting, etc.) with a melting capacity of 4 tonnes per day for lead and cadmium or 20 tonnes per day for all other metals.
(f) Installations for surface treatment of metals and plastic materials using an electrolytic or chemical process where the volume of the treatment vats equals 30 m3.

Tags: actual pollutant releases (pollutant release and transfer register), emission to air, emission to water, environment, environmental monitoring facilities, ferrous, ie, metal, metal processing, metal production, non-ferrous, pollutant, pollutant dispersion
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Special Area of Conservation

These are prime wildlife conservation areas in the country, considered to be important on a European as well as Irish level. Most Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) are in the countryside, although a few sites reach into town or city landscapes, such as Dublin Bay and Cork Harbour. Detailed conservation objectives are available for some SACs and as additional ones are approved they will be posted on the NPWS website (www.npws.ie). The legal basis on which SACs are selected and designated is the EU Habitats Directive, transposed into Irish law in the as amended in 1998 and 2005. The Directive lists certain habitats and species that must be protected within SACs This is a national dataset and is split into two separate file download: SACs within the bounds of the ITM coordinate reference system and off-shore SACs which are provided in WGS 84.

Tags: animal species, biodiversity, biota, ecological, ecology, environment, habitat, habitat protection, heritage, ie, national biodiversity plan, national parks and wildlife service, npws, protected sites, protection of animals, protection of birds, protection of species, sac, special area of conservation, species, terrestrial ecosystem, wildlife protection, wildlife sanctuary
Organization: Marine Institute
Noise Round 4 Airport Agglomeration (Lnight)

This is a polygon dataset of the strategic noise mapping of agglomeration airports for Round 4 (2022), representing the situation during 2021, in the form of noise contours for the Lnight period. 
		The dB value represents the annual average Lnight indicator value in decibels over the night time.  
		The values are calculated at a height of 4.0m above local terrain, not measured, and should be treated with caution when looking at specific locations. 
		The strategic noise mapping of agglomeration airports was undertaken by Dublin Airport Authority.		
		The outputs of the Round 4 noise mapping exercise were generated using a new common noise assessment method for Europe (CNOSSOS-EU), as set out in the revised Annex II of Directive 2002/49/EC, and they are not directly comparable to any strategic noise maps previously generated under Rounds 1 to 3, as these revised methods calculate noise emissions, propagation and residential population exposure differently from the methods used in previous rounds.   
		The noise maps are the product of assimilating a collection of digital datasets, and over the last 15 years there have been ongoing significant improvements to the quality of the digital datasets describing the natural and built environment in Ireland, therefore the Round 4 strategic noise mapping includes changes to the model input datasets being used, compared to previous rounds, particularly related to the aircraft modelled and the terrain model.
		The strategic noise maps should not be relied upon in the context of planning applications for noise sensitive developments in the vicinity of the mapped sources.

Tags: air, environment, health, human health and safety, ie, noise action plan, noise contours, noise decibels, noise exposure plan, noise legislation, noise level, noise measurement, noise monitoring, noise type
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Register of Protected Areas - SPA Conservation Objective Habitat Surface Waterbodies (WFD RBMP Cycle 2)

This dataset represents a snapshot taken in September 2016 for the purpose of the WFD RBMP Cycle 2.

WFD Surface Waterbodies intersecting with Designated Special Protection Areas Conservation Objective Habitats under the EU Habitats Directive (together with the Birds Directive) - Council Directive 92/43/EE of 21st May 1992.

Tags: coastal waters, environment, environmental policy, habitats and biotopes, ie, inland waters, natural areas, protected site, protected sites, water-body
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Noise Round 2 Rail (Night Time)

This is a polygon dataset of the strategic noise mapping of rail, which were identified as those rail exceeding the flow threshold of 30,000 vehicle passages per year, in the form of noise contours for the Lnight (night) period for Dublin and Cork agglomerations and the major roads outside of the agglomerations.
The Db Value represents the average decibel value during the night time.

Tags: environment, health, human health and safety, ie, noise action plan, noise contours, noise decibels, noise exposure plan, noise legislation, noise level, noise measurement, noise monitoring, noise type, rail
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Historical Groundwater Quality 2003-2005

This is a points dataset of pre-WFD Groundwater quality levels, 2003-2005.

Tags: aquatic environment, clean waters, environment, environmental quality, ground water status, ground waterbody status, ground waters, groundwater, groundwater protection, groundwater quality, gwb status, historical ground water quality, hydrography, ie, pre wfd, water, water management, water quality, water quality monitoring, water status, wfd
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Cetacean Monitoring undertaken during the Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS) 2019

The Western European Shelf Passive Acoustic Survey is an acoustic survey undertaken by the Fisheries Ecosystems Advisory Services (FEAS) Department of the Marine Institute of Ireland. The WESPAS provides a unique opportunity for surveillance of the summer distribution of cetaceans in shelf water habitats along Ireland’s Atlantic margins which can be difficult to reach by other means.

Tags: biodiversity, biota, cetacean, environment, ireland, mammal, marine, marine fauna, national parks and wildlife service, npws, species distribution
Organization: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Lake and TRaC Aquaculture Pressures

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 to be addressed in order to improve water quality. Many of our waterbodies have multiple significant pressures. A robust scientific assessment process has been carried out to determine which pressures are the significant pressures. This has incorporated over 140 datasets, a suite of modelling tools, and local knowledge from field and enforcement staff from the Local Authorities, Inland Fisheries Ireland and EPA. Impacts from aquaculture include nutrient, chemical and sediment pollution. It can also include abstraction impacts.

Tags: abstraction, anthropogenic factor, aquaculture, catchment, characterisation, chemical, coast, coastal waterbodies, critical load, critical source area, diffuse, discharge, emission, environment, environmental impact of aquaculture, environmental impacts, environmental policy, environmental pressures, environmental risk, fish, hydrography, ie, impact, lake, lake waterbodies, licence, nitrate, nutrient, phosphate, point source, pollutant impact potential (pip), pollutant pathway, pollution, pressure, receptor, risk, sediment, shellfish, source, subcatchment, surface water, trac, transitional waterbodies, transitional waters, water framework directive, wfd
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
National Monuments service - Wreck Inventory of Ireland

The Wreck Inventory of Ireland Database (WIID) holds records of over 18,000 known and potential wreck sites in Irish waters. Wrecks in the database date to all periods; the earliest vessels represented being prehistoric logboats which are primarily found within Ireland’s inland waterways. With the intensification of shipping activity from the late medieval period onwards, the number of wrecking events off Irish waters increased exponentially with significant numbers occurring during the 18th and 19th centuries. This trend continued and the tumultuous events of the two World Wars in the first half of the 20th Century resulted in much larger numbers of vessels being lost in the waters surrounding Ireland, with an estimated 1,800 shipping casualties relating to both conflicts.

Information contained in the WIID is derived from a wide variety of sources including: UKHO wreck data; the National Museum of Ireland; 18th and 19th-century surveys and sea charts; Lloyd’s List and Lloyd’s Register of Shipping; historic newspapers; Parliamentary Papers; local and international journals; fishermen’s marks; charts and cartographic sources. Important information on wrecks has been obtained during targeted fieldwork carried out by the National Monuments Service’s Underwater Archaeology Unit (UAU), drawing on first-hand accounts from divers, fishermen, coastal walkers, independent archaeologists, other marine and inland-waterways users, often supplemented by the records held in the Dept. of Irish Folklore, University College Dublin. 

The extensive seabed mapping programme carried out by the Geological Survey of Ireland and the Marine Institute as part of the INFOMAR project is very important, leading to the discovery of significant numbers of new wreck sites. It has also produced new high-resolution survey data on hundreds of other known wreck sites in Irish waters. NMS endeavours to ensure that the information in the Wreck Viewer is as accurate as possible. As only a relatively small percentage of wrecks have been accurately located to date, any information which can clarify positions or confirm new discoveries is greatly appreciated and new information will be updated to the viewer on an on-going basis. New information can be emailed to 

nationalmonuments@housing.gov.ie

The Data is based on 20/6/24 data export

This data has been released for download as Open Data under the DPER Open Data Strategy and is licensed for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Tags: archaeology, environment, ireland, planningcadastre, protected sites
Organization: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
PRTR Facilities

The Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) provides easily accessible key environmental data from industrial facilities in Ireland.  The register contains data reported during for the period of 2007 to 2021 for over 400 facilities that are engaged in environmentally hazardous activities. 
For each facility, information is provided concerning the amounts of pollutant releases to air, water and land as well as off-site transfers of waste and of pollutants in waste water from a list of 91 key pollutants including heavy metals, pesticides, greenhouse gases and dioxins for the year 2007 to 2021. 
The register contributes to transparency and public participation in environmental decision-making. It implements for the European Community the UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) PRTR Protocol to the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters.

Tags: air quality, dioxin, environment, environmental monitoring facilities, environmental quality, greenhouse gas, ie, land, metal waste, monitoring, pesticide, prtr, prtr facilities, water
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Register of Protected Areas - SPA Conservation Objective Habitat River Waterbodies

WFD River Water Bodies intersecting with Designated Special Protection Areas Conservation Objective Habitats under the EU Habitats Directive (together with the Birds Directive) - Council Directive 92/43/EE of 21st May 1992.

Tags: environment, environmental policy, habitats and biotopes, ie, inlandwaters, natural areas, protected site, protected sites, water-body, watercourse
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
An aerial survey of harbour and grey seals in Ireland: Part 2: Galway Bay to Carlingford Lough

On August and September 2012, the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) of the University of St Andrews carried out an aerial survey of moulting harbour seals (Phoca vitulina, also known as common seals) in the west, south-west, south and east of Ireland, between Galway Bay and Carlingford Lough.  This was the completion of a survey of seals around the whole of Ireland that started in August 2011, when the coast from Lough Foyle to Galway Bay was surveyed (Duck & Morris, 2012).  Although the primary aim of this survey was to count harbour seals hauled out ashore, grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) were also counted. 

The 2011 and 2012 surveys were undertaken in order to update information from a previous nationwide aerial seal survey carried out in August 2003 (Cronin et al., 2004; Cronin et al., 2007).  The surveys incorporated improved techniques which resulted in more accurate species identification and, consequently, more accurate final counts compared with the 2003 survey.  This should be kept in mind when interpreting any differences in counts from the two surveys.

Tags: biodiversity, biota, environment, ireland, mammal, marine, marine fauna, marine mammal, national parks and wildlife service, npws, species distribution
Organization: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
WFD Ground Waterbody Status 2007 - 2012

This dataset show status results based on the assessment of groundwater chemical and quantitative figures in Ireland. This is drawn from representative monitoring points selected specifically for the Water Framework Directive (WFD) groundwater monitoring programme.

Tags: aquatic environment, clean waters, environment, environmental quality, ground water status, ground waterbody status, ground waters, groundwater, groundwater protection, groundwater quality, gwb status, hydrography, ie, water, water management, water quality, water quality monitoring, water status
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Noise Round 1 NRA Data

This is the results of the noise mapping (round 1) of the major roads carried for the EPA under EU Directive 2002/49/EC. The directive is implemented in Ireland by the Environmental Noise Regulations 2006 (SI 140/2006).

Tags: environment, health, human health and safety, ie, noise action plan, noise contours, noise decibels, noise exposure plan, noise legislation, noise level, noise measurement, noise monitoring, noise type
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Pollutant Impact Potential for Nitrate (PIP-N)

Nitrate Critical Source Area (CSA) are where there is a source of N from agricultural areas and the land is susceptible to losses. This ‘High PIP’ (Rank 1, 2 or 3) is typically due to the presence of freely draining soils and moderate/high livestock intensity. Target these areas in At Risk water body in which nitrate is the significant issue and farming is the significant pressure.

Tags: boundaries, critical source areas, environment, hydrography, ie, nitrate, pip, pip-n, pollutant impact potential
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Groundwater Anthropogenic Pressures

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 to be addressed in order to improve water quality. Many of our waterbodies have multiple significant pressures. A robust scientific assessment process has been carried out to determine which pressures are the significant pressures. This has incorporated over 140 datasets, a suite of modelling tools, and local knowledge from field and enforcement staff from the Local Authorities, Inland Fisheries Ireland and EPA. Impacts from anthropogenic pressures may include nutrient, chemical, microbiological etc.

Tags: anthropogenic, anthropogenic factor, catchment, characterisation, chemical pollutant, critical source area, diffuse, discharge, environment, environmental impacts, environmental policy, environmental pressure, environmental pressures, environmental risk, groundwater, groundwater quality, hydrography, ie, impact, man-made, microbiological, nitrate, nutrient, phosphate, point, point source, pollutant pathway, pollution, pollution impact potential (pip), pressure, receptor, risk, source, subcatchment, water, water framework directive, wfd
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
SAC Datasheets

Summary tabular data relating to Natura 2000 SAC sites in Ireland, providing Natura 2000 site-related details, including lists of the habitats and species listed in Annex I and Annex II of the Habitats Directive for which each Natura 2000 site is selected. 
Data is accurate up to March 2023. Please check the Iris Oifigiúil, Irish, Irish Statute Book for more recently published Statutory Instrument (S.I.) regulations. 
Data is provided in a single zip file containing sub folders holding MS Excel, CSV and JSON formats, each accompanied by a ‘readme’ file.

This data should be read in conjunction with the spatial (GIS) boundaries for sites, site documents and related publications (see further  https://www.npws.ie/maps-and-data/designated-site-data/ )

Tags: animal species, biodiversity, biota, ecological, ecology, environment, habitat, habitat protection, heritage, ireland, national biodiversity plan, national parks and wildlife service, npws, protected sites, protection of animals, protection of birds, protection of species, sac, special area of conservation, species, terrestrial ecosystem, wildlife protection, wildlife sanctuary
Organization: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Connemara National Park Boundary Map

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 Pony. Although a domestic animal, this pony is very much part of the Connemara countryside.

This boundary map is for illustrative purposes only and shall not be held conclusive as to the boundaries or their extent. Please note the Department of Housing Local Government and Heritage makes no representation or provides any warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or currency of this map. The use of this map, which may be altered or updated at any time without notice, is at the sole risk of the user.
https://www.nationalparks.ie/

Tags: boundary, environment, ireland, location, national park, national parks and wildlife service, npws, protected sites
Organization: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage