AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
PRTR: Chemical Industry

The PRTR Chemical industry sector includes the following activities:
(a) Chemical installations for the production on an industrial scale of basic organic chemicals, such as:
(i) Simple hydrocarbons (linear or cyclic, saturated or unsaturated, aliphatic or aromatic);
(ii) Oxygen-containing hydrocarbons such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, acetates, ethers, peroxides, epoxy resins;
(iii) Sulphurous hydrocarbons;
(iv) Nitrogenous hydrocarbons such as amines, amides, nitrous compounds, nitro compounds or nitrate compounds, nitriles, cyanates, isocyanates;
(v) Phosphorus-containing hydrocarbons;
(vi) Halogenic hydrocarbons;
(vii) Organometallic compounds;
(viii) Basic plastic materials (polymers, synthetic fibres and cellulose-based fibres);
(ix) Synthetic rubbers;
(x) Dyes and pigments;
(xi) Surface-active agents and surfactants.
(b) Chemical installations for the production on an industrial scale of basic inorganic chemicals, such as:
(i) Gases, such as ammonia, chlorine or hydrogen chloride, fluorine or hydrogen fluoride, carbon oxides, sulphur compounds, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen, sulphur dioxide, carbonyl chloride;
(ii) Acids, such as chromic acid, hydrofluoric acid, phosphoric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid, oleum, sulphurous acids;
(iii) Bases, such as ammonium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide;
(iv) Salts, such as ammonium chloride, potassium chlorate, potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate, perborate, silver nitrate;
(v) Non-metals, metal oxides or other inorganic compounds such as calcium carbide, silicon, silicon carbide.
(c) Chemical installations for the production on an industrial scale of phosphorous-, nitrogen- or potassium-based fertilisers (simple or compound fertilisers).
(d) Chemical installations for the production on an industrial scale of basic plant health products and of biocides.
(e) Installations using a chemical or biological process for the production on an industrial scale of basic pharmaceutical products.
(f) Installations for the production on an industrial scale of explosives and pyrotechnic products.

Tags: actual pollutant releases (pollutant release and transfer register), biocides, chemical, emission to air, emission to water, environment, environmental monitoring facilities, explosives, fertiliser, ie, inorganic, organic, pharmaceutical products, pollutant, pollutant dispersion
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Groundwater Domestic Waste Water 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 domestic waste water include nutrient and organic pollution. This assessment synthesises over a decade of field studies on on-site systems in Ireland across many different soil types and combines factors relating to the efficiency of the septic tank systems with attenuation factors for the hydrogeological flow pathway.

Tags: anthropogenic factor, catchment, characterisation, diffuse, discharge, domestic waste water, environment, environmental impact, environmental policy, environmental pressures, environmental risk, groundwater, groundwater pollution, groundwater quality, hydrography, ie, impact, investigative assessment, load, modelling, pathway, point, point source, pollutant pathway, pollution, pollution impact potential (pip), pressure, receptor, risk, septic tank, source, subcatchment, unknown, water, water framework directive, wfd
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
National Monuments Service - Prehistoric Rock Art

This is a point dataset showing the location of 950 panels of prehistoric rock art 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).  The current published dataset dates from April 2023.

New panels of rock art 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 panels of rock art 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 KML 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, the monument number known as the SMR Number, Class Description which is the classification type of the monument, 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.

Tags: archaeology, environment, ireland, planningcadastre, protected sites
Organization: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Noise Round 2 Road (Night)

This is a polygon dataset of the strategic noise mapping of roads, which were identified as those roads exceeding the flow threshold of 3 million 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 day 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
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
National Ecosystems Monitoring Network – Terrestrial Monitoring Sites

Under the National Emission Reduction Commitments Directive member states are required to monitor (Article 9) air pollution pressures and impacts on sensitive ecosystems. Irelands response to these legislative requirements was the establishment of the National Ecosystems Monitoring Network (NEMN), over which the EPA has a coordination role on the oversight and implementation.
This is a points dataset of locations of terrestrial ecological and forest monitoring sites managed within the National Ecosystems Monitoring Network.

Tags: air pollution, ammonia, atmospheric conditions, bulk precipitation, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, ecological, ecosystem monitoring, environment, environmental monitoring facilities, geoscientificinformation, habitat, habitats and biotopes, ie, meteorological geographical features, national ecosystems monitoring network, national emission reduction commitments directive, national emission reduction commitments directive (nec directive), nitrogen oxides, nox, plant surveys, vegetation
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
River Extractive Industry 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 extractive sites include sediment/siltation pollution and alteration to the physical environment.

Tags: anthropogenic factor, authorized, catchment, characterisation, diffuse, discharge, emission, environment, environmental impact, environmental policy, environmental pressures, environmental risk, extractive industry, hydrography, ie, impact, industry, ipc, licence, mines, pathway, point, point source, pollutant pathway, pollution, pressure, quarries, quarry, receptor, risk, river, section 4s, sediment, siltation, source, subcatchment, surface water, unauthorized, water framework directive, wfd
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Lake and TRaC Atmospheric 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. Atmospheric deposition of nutrients is the process whereby nutrients from natural or anthropogenic sources move from the atmosphere to the earth's surface.

Tags: anthropogenic factor, atmospheric, atmospheric pollution, catchment, characterisation, coast, coastal waterbodies, critical source area, diffuse, environment, environmental impacts, environmental policy, environmental pressures, environmental risk, hydrography, ie, impact, lake, lake waterbodies, man-made, natural, 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
National Parks & Wildlife Service Coastal Monitoring

This dataset is owned and provided by NPWS.

Reccomended Reading: COASTAL MONITORING PROJECT
2004-2006
By Tim Ryle, Anne Murray, Kieran Connolly & Melinda Swann; http://www.npws.ie/en/media/NPWS/Publications/Reports/Media,6709,en.pdf.

Source: Ryle, T., Connolly, K., Murray, A. Gabbett M Swann, M, and Brown A. (2007) Coastal Monitoring Project 2004-2006: A report prepared for the National Parks and Wildlife Service, Research Branch Contract Reference D/C/79 (Unpublished).

Data date: 2004-2006

Description: Shapefile with around 6700 polygons, result of 
-	merging of 133 single shapefiles provided by Tim Ryle and 
-	joining the resulting file which contains 21 different habitat types with a key to identify Annex 1 Habitat types. 
Annex 1 codes are stored in column <EU Code>. Definition queries were run on this file to extract the polygons for the following Annex 1 Habitat types:
-	2110 Embryonic shifting dunes 
-	2120 Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria (''white dunes'')
-	2130 Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation (''grey dunes'')
-	2140  Decalcified fixed dunes with Empetrum nigrum
-	2150 Atlantic decalcified fixed dunes (Calluno-Ulicetea)
-	2170  Dunes with Salix repens ssp argentea (Salicion arenariae)


Those were then overlayed with 10km Irish National Grid to derive distribution files uploaded to EU.

Other Annex1 habitats contained in the file are:
-	1210 Annual vegetation of drift lines
-	1220 Perennial vegetation of stony banks
-	2190 Humid dune slacks
-	21A0 Machairs

This shapefile has been used for the production of the habitat’s distribution and range maps for the 2007 Conservation Assessments (according to the EU Habitats directive).

Tags: coastal heritage, environment, habitats and biotopes, heritage council, national parks & wildlife service coastal monitoring
Organization: Heritage Council
WFD Canal Waterbody Ecological Potential 2010 - 2015

This table contains the Water Framework Directive (WFD) Canal Waterbody Ecological Potential results for 2010-2015. The data used were primarily from 2013 to 2015. The WFD objectives include the attainment of good ecological potential in waterbodies that are of lesser status at present and retaining good ecological potential or better where such status exists.

Tags: canal, canal ecological potential, canal wfd ecological potential, clean waters, environment, hydrography, ie, river water status, river waterbody status, river waters, water framework directive, water monitoring, water quality, water quality monitoring, wfd
Organization: Waterways Ireland
National Survey of Native Woodlands 2003-2008

The National Survey of Native Woodlands in Ireland included the survey of 1,217 woodland sites across all 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland during 2003-2007. Site selection was carried out using the Forest Inventory Planning System 1998 (FIPS) and local knowledge. Surveys comprised the recording of site species lists and information at the site level on topography, management, grazing, natural regeneration, geographical situation, adjacent habitat types, invasive species, dead wood and boundaries. Relevés were recorded in each of the main stand types identified at each site. For each relevé, data were recorded on vascular plant and bryophyte cover abundance, soil type and soil chemistry, notable lichens, stand structure, and natural regeneration. Data were also incorporated from a number of external sources. 

This shapefile contains the digitised boundaries of all sites surveyed as part of NSNW 2003-2007, as well as additional sites surveyed by van der Sleesen and Poole (2002) during the pilot study, and by Browne et al. (2000), Fernandez et al. (2005), van der Sleesen (unpublished data), Kelly and Fuller (unpublished data) and Smith (unpublished data) in additional studies, which were incorporated into the results of NSNW 2003-2007.  Boundaries of all 1,320 sites reported on in Perrin et al. (2008) are included in this shapefile.

Tags: biodiversity, biota, environment, habitat, habitat protection, habitats and biotopes, heritage, ireland, national biodiversity plan, national parks and wildlife service, npws, species, woodland ecosystem
Organization: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Air Quality Zones

This is a dataset of the air quality zones listed on http://www.epa.ie/air/quality/zones/. 

The zones were defined initially in the Air Quality Regulations (SI 180 of 2011). The EPA reviews the zones regularly and amends when necessary.

Tags: air monitoring, air quality, air quality control, air quality monitoring, air quality zones, environment, environmental monitoring facilities, ie
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
National Monuments Service - World Heritage Properties

This dataset displays locational information for the UNESCO World Heritage sites Brú na Bóinne and Sceilg Mhichíl. It also contains the buffer boundary of Brú na Bóinne. All datasets have been recorded by the National Monuments Service on behalf of UNESCO as part of their World Heritage sites record. The datasets are also viewable on the National Monuments Service, Historic Environment Viewer, accessible at https://maps.archaeology.ie/HistoricEnvironment.  This dataset is based on information provided to UNESCO in April 2023.

Boundaries of Brú na Bóinne – Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne World Heritage Property and its buffer zone.

Brú na Bóinne was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1993. The listing reflects the site’s status as Europe’s largest and most important concentration of prehistoric megalithic art and as Ireland’s richest archaeological landscape. The archaeological landscape within Brú na Bóinne is dominated by three large Neolithic passage tombs, Knowth, Newgrange and Dowth, which contain the largest assemblage of megalithic art in Western Europe. Each year at dawn on the winter solstice (21 December), and for a number of days before and after, a shaft of sunlight enters the chamber at Newgrange through an opening in the roof box. 

The natural heritage of Brú na Bóinne is also of importance and it encompasses several Natural Heritage Areas. The Boyne River Islands are one of the country’s few examples of alluvial wet woodland, which is a priority habitat under the EU Habitat Directive.


Boundaries of Sceilg Mhichíl – World Heritage Property.
 
Sceilg Mhichíl  was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1996. Sceilg Mhichíl and Sceilg Bheag are towering sea crags rising from the Atlantic Ocean almost 12 kilometres west of the Ivereagh Peninsula in County Kerry. Both islands are internationally renowned as one of the most important sites for breeding seabirds in Ireland. Located at the western edge of the European landmass, Sceilg Mhichíl was the chosen destination for a small group of ascetic monks who, in their pursuit of greater union with God, withdrew from civilisation to this remote and inaccessible place. Sometime between the sixth and eight centuries, a monastery was founded on this precipitous rock giving rise to one of the most dramatic examples of the extremes of Christian monasticism.

The monastic community moved to the mainland by the thirteenth century and the island remained uninhabited until the nineteenth century when two lighthouses were constructed and linked by a remarkable road cut into the rock along the southern edge of the island.

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

Dataset owned and provided by EPA.

Seagrass beds occur on shallow, sheltered intertidal and subtidal sediments. 

Five seagrass species are found around Britain and Ireland; three species of eelgrass (namely Zostera marina, Z. angustifolia and Z. noltii) and two species of tassel weed (Ruppia maritima and R. cirrhosa) which can partly replace Zostera species in seagrass beds in certain circumstances.

Seagrasses form a unique group of plants in that they are the only angiosperms (flowering plants) that can truly be called marine, with approximately 60 species found worldwide (Den Hartog, 1970).

Tags: coastal heritage, elevation, environment, habitats and biotopes, heritage council, intertidal seagrass
Organization: Heritage Council
WFD Groundwater Waterbody Status 2013 – 2018

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
Lake and TRaC 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, and include sediment pollution via alteration of waterbodies and competition of species within the aquatic ecosystem.

Tags: alteration, catchment, characterisation, coast, coastal waterbodies, competition, critical source area, diffuse, diffuse pollution, ecosystem, environment, environmental impacts, environmental policy, environmental pressures, environmental risk, fish, hydrography, ie, impact, invasive species, lake, lake waterbodies, 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
Water Framework Directive Coastal Waterbodies

Water Framework Directive (WFD) Coastal Waterbody unit within Irish waters. According to the WFD Article 2(7) “‘Coastal water’ means surface water on the landward side of a line, every point of which is at a distance of one nautical mile on the seaward side from the nearest point of the baseline from which the breadth of territorial waters is measured, extending where appropriate up to the outer limit of transitional waters.”

Tags: aquatic environment, clean waters, coastal, coastal area, coastal water, coastal waterbodies, coastal waters, environment, environmental quality, hydrography, ie, north atlantic ocean, water, water management, water quality, water quality monitoring, water status, wfd
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Noise Round 2 Airport (Night Time)

This is a polygon dataset of the strategic noise mapping of airports, in the form of noise contours for the Lnight (night) period for Dublin and Cork agglomerations airports.
The Db Value represents the average decibel value during the night time.

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
WFD River Waterbody Status 2010 - 2015

This table contains all the River Waterbody Status results recorded in accordance with European Communities (Water Policy) Regulations 2003 (SI no. 722/2003). The regulation objectives include the attainment of good status in waterbodies that are of lesser status at present and retaining good status or better where such status exists by 22nd December 2015.

Tags: aquatic environment, clean waters, environment, environmental quality, hydrography, ie, inlandwaters, river water status, river waterbody status, river waters, rwb status, water, water management, water quality, water quality monitoring, water status
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency