AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
WFD Lake Waterbody Status 2010 - 2012

This dataset contains the interim status results for lake waterbodies (LWB) monitored as part of the EU Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) with the objective to achieve or maintain at least good ecological status and good chemical status by 2015.

Tags: clean waters, environment, hydrography, ie, inlandwaters, lake, lake water status, lake waterbody status, lake waters, lakes, lwb status, water, water management, water quality, water quality monitoring, water status
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Lake and TRaC Other 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 other non-specified anthropogenic pressures may include nutrient, chemical, microbiological etc.

Tags: anthropogenic factor, catchment, characterisation, coast, coastal waterbodies, critical source area, diffuse, diffuse pollution, environment, environmental impacts, environmental policy, environmental pressures, environmental risk, hydrography, ie, impact, lake, lake waterbodies, man-made, nitrate, nutrient, phosphate, point source, pollutant impact potential (pip), pollutant pathway, pollution, pressure, receptor, risk, sediment, source, subcatchment, surface water, trac, transitional waterbodies, transitional waters, water framework directive, wfd
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Noise Round 3 Airport (Lden)

This is a polygon dataset of the strategic noise mapping of airports, in the form of noise contours for the Lden (day, evening, night) period for Dublin and Cork agglomeration's airports.
The dB value represents the average decibel value during the Lden time.

Any direct comparison of the Round 3 versus Round 2 results should be carefully considered, as changes to the model input datasets used between these rounds may be significant. This may especially apply to the terrain model used, while there may be improved building height data, & improved traffic flow data with fewer assumed flows. There may also be some revisions to the actual road network modelled in Round 3.

The noise maps are the product of assimilating a collection of digital datasets, and over the last 10 years there has been significant improvements to the quality of the digital datasets describing the natural and built environment in Ireland. This has led to the strategic noise models giving much more reliable noise results with much less tendency to over predict the impact.

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
Burren National Park Boundary Map

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/hazel woodland, turloughs, lakes, petrifying springs, cliffs.

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
WFD Canal Waterbody Risk - 2016

This table contains all the Canal Waterbody Risk results from the characterisation assessment carried out by Waterways Ireland in for the River Basin Management Plan 2018-2021. It was prepared using canal monitoring data for the period 2010 to 2016. The assessment was carried out to support the preparation of the River Basin Management Plan 2018–2021.

Tags: canal, canal characterisation risk, canal risk, canal wfd risk, clean waters, environment, hydrography, ie, water framework directive, water monitoring, water quality, water quality monitoring, water risk, wfd
Organization: Waterways Ireland
Noise Round 4 Road Agglomeration (Lnight)

This is a polygon dataset of the strategic noise mapping of agglomeration roads for Round 4 (2022), representing the situation during 2021, in the form of noise contours for the Lnight period for Cork, Dublin and Limerick noise agglomerations.
		The dB value represents the annual average Lnight indicator value in decibels over the night time.  
		The strategic noise mapping of agglomeration roads includes all roads within the three noise agglomeraiton areas. 
		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 roads was undertaken by Noise Consultants Limited inside the three noise agglomerations, under contract to the agglomeration local authorities, with support from Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII).
		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 road network modelled, the terrain model, building heights, traffic flows and ground cover.
		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: 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, road
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Register of Protected Areas - Groundwater bodies in Bathing Locations

WFD Groundwater bodies interesting with Designated Bathing Waters under S.I. No. 79/2008 and S.I. No. 351/2011 Bathing Water Quality (Amendment) Regulations 2011 and all relevant previous Statutory Instruments.

Tags: bathing water, environment, environmental policy, human health and safety, ie, protected site, protected sites, water-body
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Cessation of Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Statistics for SACs

The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht established the Cessation of Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme to compensate land owners and turbary right holders affected by the restriction on turf cutting on the 53 raised bog Special Areas of Conservation (SACs). This Scheme is administered by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht on behalf of the Minister.

In 2014 the Minister has extended the Scheme to include land owners and turbary right holders affected by the restriction on turf cutting on 36 raised bog Natural Heritage Areas (NHAs). Details of this scheme, and the application forms needed to apply, are available via https://www.npws.ie/peatlands-and-turf-cutting/turf-cutting-compensation-scheme

Tags: biodiversity, biota, bogs, ecological, ecology, environment, habitat, habitats and biotopes, heritage, ireland, national parks and wildlife service, npws, peatlands
Organization: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Pollutant Impact Potential for Phosphorus (PIP-P)

Phosphorus Critical Source Area (CSA) are where there is a diffuse source of P 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 poorly draining soils and moderate/high livestock intensity. Target these areas in At Risk water body in which phosphate is the significant issue and farming is the significant pressure.

Tags: boundaries, critical source areas, environment, hydrography, ie, phosphorus, pip, pip-p, pollutant impact potential
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Groundwater Other 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 other non-specified anthropogenic pressures may include nutrient, chemical, microbiological etc.

Tags: anthropogenic factor, catchment, characterisation, chemical, critical load, diffuse, discharge, environment, environmental impact, environmental policy, environmental pressures, environmental risk, groundwater, groundwater pollution, groundwater quality, hydrography, ie, impact, man-made, microbiological, nitrate, nutrient, pathway, phosphate, point, point source, pollutant pathway, pollution, pollution impact potential (pip), pressure, receptor, risk, sediment, source, subcatchment, water framework directive, wfd
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
River Invasive Species 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 invasive species vary depending on the species itself, via alteration of waterbodies and competition of species within the aquatic ecosystem.

Tags: alteration, catchment, characterisation, competition, critical load, critical source area, diffuse, ecosystem, environment, environmental impact, environmental policy, environmental pressures, environmental risk, fish, hydrography, ie, impact, invasive species, nitrate, nutrient, pathway, phosphate, point, point source, pollutant pathway, pollution, pollution impact potential (pip), pressure, receptor, risk, river, source, subcatchment, surface water, water framework directive, wfd
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Groundwater Waste 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 waste facilities include nutrient and sediment pollution and can include illegal dumping and dumping at sea.

Tags: authorisation, catchment, characterisation, critical load, diffuse, dumping, dumping at sea, emissions, environment, environmental impact, environmental policy, environmental pressures, environmental risk, groundwater, groundwater pollution, groundwater quality, hydrography, ie, ied, illegal dumping, impact, ipc, licence, nitrate, nutrient, pathway, phosphate, point, point source, pollutant pathway, pollution, pollution impact potential (pip), pressure, receptor, risk, sediment, source, subcatchment, waste, waste dumping, waste facility, water framework directive, wfd
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
National Soils Map

The indicative soils map classifies the soils of Ireland on a categorically simplified but cartographically detailed basis into 25 classes, using an expert rule based methodology. Produced by Teagasc (Kinsealy), EPA and GSI.

Tags: environment, geology, ie, irish forest soils, land cover, soil, soil classification, soil function, soil group, soil occurrence, soil type, soil types, soils group, topography, vegetation
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
National Ecosystem and Ecosystem Services Map – Supporting Ecosystem Service Information: Contribution to the grassland network

This dataset contains a raster dataset showing areas' contributing to the grassland network, including how important the area is for the network (based on habitat type and proximity to the next core area).

This dataset is part of a dataset series that establishes an ecosystem service maps (national scale) for a set of services prioritised through stakeholder consultation and any intermediate layers created by Environment Systems Ltd in the cause of the project. The individual dataset resources in the datasets series are to be considered in conjunction with the project report: https://www.npws.ie/research-projects/ecosystems-services-mapping-and-assessment

The project provides a National Ecosystem and Ecosystem Services (ES) map for a suite of prioritised services to assist implementation of MAES (Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their services) in Ireland.

This involves stakeholder consultation for identification of services to be mapped, the development of a list of indicators and proxies for mapping, as well as an assessment of limitations to ES mapping on differing scales (Local, Catchment, Region, National, EU) based on data availability. Reporting on data gaps forms part of the project outputs.

The project relied on the usage of pre-existing data, which was also utilised to create intermediate data layers to aid in ES mapping. For a full list of the data used throughout the project workings, please refer to the project report.

Tags: biota, ecosystem, ecosystem services, environment, geoscientificinformation, grassland, grassland ecosystem, habitat, habitat protection, habitats and biotopes, heritage, ireland, national biodiversity plan, national parks and wildlife service, npws
Organization: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Noise Round 1 Airport

This is the results of the noise mapping (round 1) of Dublin Airport carried out 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: 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
Catchments.ie Stories Point Locations

These points are locations for ‘Stories’ on Catchments.ie - Catchments.ie is trying to make complicated science and policy relevant to the general public, and using “Stories” specific to local locations is one way this is being done.

Tags: catchment, catchment area, communities, environment, hydrography, ie, local, science, water framework directive, water quality management, water science, wfd
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
National Monuments Service - Stone Circles

This is a point dataset showing the location of 255 Stone Circles in the Republic of Ireland generated from the Sites and Monuments Record (SMR). This dataset is updated on a regular basis by the Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI). Each record in this dataset can be accessed through the online Historic Environment Viewer at https://maps.archaeology.ie/historicenvironment. The current published dataset dates from April 2023. 

New stone circles are updated to the record by the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as soon as possible after the notification of such discovery has been reported to the National Monuments Service (NMS) through their email at nationalmonuments@housing.gov.ie.  


Unlocated stone circles with a 0 0 National Grid Reference are monuments whose location has been lost and await rediscovery by local people who may report their findings to the National Monuments Service at the above email address. The KMZ file can be opened using Google Earth which displays these ‘lost’ monuments at the same location in the Atlantic Ocean. The dataset contains a list of the following fields, county location, monument number known as the SMR Number, Class Description which is the classification type of the monument, townland, ITM E and ITM N are the Easting and Northern Irish Grid reference in Irish Transverse Mercator format, the latitude and longitude of the monument location. The final Links table includes a hyperlink or internet address which takes the browser directly to the online entry for each monument hosted on the Historic Environment Viewer of the National Monuments website at www.archaeology.ie.  This dataset is based on information exported from the national database on the 20/04/2023.

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
RAPTOR annual report incidents data

The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage publishes annual RAPTOR (Recording and Addressing Persecution and Threats to Our Raptors) reports on threats to birds of prey. This csv dataset for download here represents the tabular data that is core to those reports.  It provides details of recorded incidents of human related injury and mortality in Irish birds of prey, as well as any incidents of poisoned bait or poisoning of any wildlife. 

This dataset should be viewed in conjunction with its associated 2015 report which is also referenced here for download. The dataset and report is prepared by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) in collaboration with the Regional Veterinary Labs of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and the State Laboratory.  The report is the product of a joint Departmental initiative to investigate bird of prey deaths in Ireland.  The dataset enables an appraisal of black spots, associated land-use types, methods of persecution, motives behind the persecution and the times of year at which such incidents peak.  2015 saw the largest annual number of incidents since recording began systematically in 2011. In total, 35 poison and persecution incidents were confirmed. 
 
Poisoning falls into two general categories: accidental poisoning through the use of poison against rats and mice which then accumulates in birds that eat them, most notably red kites and barn owls; and deliberate laying of poison. The victims of poisoning and persecution since 2007 include Red Kite, Common Buzzard, Peregrine Falcon, Golden Eagle, White-tailed Sea Eagle, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Hen Harrier, Barn Owl and Short-eared Owl. More than a hundred other birds such as crows and pigeons were also found to have been poisoned.

Tags: animal species, biodiversity, biota, bird of prey, ecological, ecology, environment, habitat, heritage, ireland, national parks and wildlife service, npws, persecution, poisoning, protection of animals, protection of birds, protection of species, species, species distribution, wildlife protection
Organization: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Radon Risk Map of Ireland

This map shows a prediction of the number of the houses in any one area that are likely to have high radon levels. Those areas in red are most at risk from radon and are called High Radon Areas. The map is based on an analysis of indoor radon measurements plus geological information including, bedrock type, quaternary geology, soil permeability and aquifer type.  The areas of the map in orange and yellow are areas of medium and low risk respectively..

Tags: 200 bq/m3, 300 bq/m3, aquifer type, background radiation, bedrock geology, construction industry, employers, environment, health, high radon area, human health and safety, indoor radon, new builds, quaternary geology, radiation, radiological protection, radon, radon map, radon risk, radon risk map, radon test, reference level, remediation, soil permability, workplaces
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Nature Reserves

Nature Reserve dataset is owned and provided by NPWS.

http://www.npws.ie/en/NatureReserves/.

A Nature Reserve is an area of importance to wildlife, which is protected under Ministerial order.  Most are owned by the State.  However, some are owned by organisations or private landowners, and persons interested in acquiring statutory protection for their lands can seek advice on this matter from the Department.

Tags: coastal heritage, environment, heritage council, national parks & wildfire service, npws nature reserves, protected sites
Organization: Heritage Council
WFD Groundwater Waterbody Status 2010 – 2015

This dataset contains 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