AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Population Distribution and Movements

Population, classified by sex, of each province, county, city and town, suburb or environs, urban area, rural area, regional authority area, electoral division, constituency, local electoral area, gaeltacht area, and inhabited islands off the coast.

Tags: area, areas, border, census, cities, city, connacht, constituencies, constituency, counties, county, dail, demographic, demography, districts, dublin, electoral, facto, gaeltacht, isl, isl-s, leinster, map, maps, mid-east, mid-west, midl, munster, population, province, provinces, region, regional, regions, rural, sapmap, saps, south-east, south-west, suburb, suburbs, town, towns, ulster, urban, west
Organization: Central Statistics Office
Visitor Figures for Cultural Institutions

This dataset contains visitor figures for the National Cultural Insitutions from 2008 to 2015. Please note that the National Museum of Natural History was closed from July 2007 until April 2010.
The Irish Museum of Modern Art was relocated from the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham to Earlsfort Terrace for renovation from November 2011 until October 2013.

Tags: Visitors, figures
Organization: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
Collision Rates 2011 to 2013

Network Safety Ranking is the process of using collision data to rank the safety of the national road network and to identify high collision locations. Collision data used for this process is collected by the Road Safety Authority, click here for the latest data map for Ireland. The average collision rates on the various road types (motorway, rural and urban dual carriageway, and rural and urban two-lane) are visualised <a href="http://data.tii.ie/Datasets/RoadSafety/CollisionRates/CollisionRates_2011to2013.pdf">here</a>.

Tags: collisions, road safety, roads
Organization: Transport Infrastructure Ireland
INSPIRE Strategic noise maps. Major railways

This is the results of the noise mapping (round 3) of the major railways 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: area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units, environment, health, ie, major railways (noise directive), noise action plan, noise contours, noise decibels, noise exposure plan, noise legislation, noise level, noise measurement, noise monitoring, noise type, railway
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
INSPIRE Water Framework Directive Transitional Waterbodies

EU Water Framework Directive Transitional Waterbodies boundaries for Ireland. Transitional waters connect fresh waters such as rivers and marine waters, for example estuaries. The goal of The Water Framework Directive is to achieve a good status for all of Europe's surface waters and groundwater by 2015.

Tags: administrative boundary, environment, hydrography, ireland, surface water, transitional waterbody, transitional waters, transitional waters (water framework directive), water quality monitoring, wfd
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
INSPIRE Strategic noise maps. Noise contour map for major roads – Lden

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 Lden (day, evening, 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 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.

UPDATE (February 2019): The Regional roads in 26 Local Authorities (LAs) outside of Dublin, and Cork have now been amended by Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII). The original road maps had included some significant stretches of roads (~20%) that were below the 3 million vehicles movements/annum reporting threshold. These road sections have now been removed and revised Regional road maps have been released by TII.

This TII review process has resulted in an update of the National road map that is reported to the EEA. The EPA has also updated our website to reflect these changes, and we will also look to provide relevant links to the Final LA Noise Action Plans (when completed): http://www.epa.ie/monitoringassessment/noisemapping/

Tags: area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units, environment, health, ie, major roads noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (noise directive), 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
INSPIRE Strategic noise maps. Major roads

This is the results of the noise mapping (round 3) 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: area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units, environment, health, ie, major roads (noise directive), 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
INSPIRE IED Installations

This is a point dataset of IED site facility locations.The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the competent authority for granting and enforcing IED licences for specified industrial and agricultural activities listed in the First Schedule to the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 as amended.

Tags: air pollution, air quality monitoring, economy, environment, installations (industrial emissions directive), ireland, production and industrial facilities, waste, waste air, waste water, waste water pollution
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
INSPIRE Strategic noise maps. Noise contour map for major railways – Lden

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 Lden (day, evening, 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 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: area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units, environment, health, ie, major railways noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (noise directive), 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
INSPIRE Strategic noise maps. Noise agglomerations

These are the results of the noise mapping (round 3) of the Dublin and Cork Agglomerations 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: agglomerations, agglomerations (noise directive), area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units, environment, health, 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
INSPIRE WFD Monitoring stations

Water monitoring stations used by the EPA and Local Authorities are registered on EDEN Monitoring Data System by an application called the Feature Coding Tool (FCT). This tool applies a unique code to river, lake, transitional, coastal or groundwater stations registered on it.

Tags: biology, coastal, environment, environmental monitoring facilities, environmental policy, groundwater, ireland, lakes, monitoring, monitoring stations, monitoring stations (water framework directive), river stations, rivers, transitional, water, water monitoring stations
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency
Wicklow Architectural Conservation Areas

In accordance with Section 81 of the Planning & Development Act, a development plan shall include an objective to preserve the character of a place, area, group of structures or townscape, taking account of building lines and heights, that a) is of special architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social or technical interest or value, or b) contributes to the appreciation of protected structures, if the Planning Authority is of the opinion that its inclusion is necessary for the preservation of the character of the place, area, group of structures or townscape concerned and any such place, area, group of structures or townscape shall be known as an “Architectural Conservation Area”. ACAs contribute to the revitalisation of the fabric of towns, villages and rural areas by supporting their aesthetic value, giving them a distinctive identity, and thus make a positive contribution to local economies and tourist potential. The designation of an ACA does not prejudice innovative and contemporary design; on the contrary, in principle, design of a contemporary and minimalist style will be facilitated within ACA’s provided it does not detract from the character of the area. Applications for development within the conservation area should contain sufficient information to allow a detailed assessment by the Planning Authority, as to the likely impacts of the proposal on the ACA. The following is a brief outline of additional information which may be submitted with a planning application that aids the assessment of the application: - fully rendered, scaled, elevation drawings; photo montages relating the proposal to its setting and material samples such as colour charts, brick and roofing materials brochures. In general developments within the ACA should comply with the guidelines as set out in the Architectural Heritage Protection Guidelines from the Department. In an ACA, the carrying out of works to the exterior of a structure will be exempted development only if those works would not materially affect the character of the area. This is in addition to the requirement under Section 4 (1) (h) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 that for works to be exempted they must be consistent with the appearance of the structure itself and neighbouring structures.

Tags: architectural heritage, conservation, land use planning, wicklow
Organization: Wicklow County Council
Wicklow Branch Libraries

County Wicklow has 13 branch libraries scattered across the county. These libraries range in size and what services they offer.

Tags: Arts Culture and Libraries, Book, Bray, arklow, aughrim, baltinglass, blessington, carnew, communities, community, elearning, enniskerry, greystones, learning, libraries, library, rathdrum, tinahely, wicklow
Organization: Wicklow County Council
Kilkenny County Record of Protected Structures 2014

The Record for both Kilkenny City and Environs and the County of Kilkenny may be amended by the addition or deletion of entries to or from the RPS.
A declaration for a Protected Structure sets out which categories of works require planning permission and which do not. It cannot give exemptions over and above those which would normally apply if the building were not a protected structure. Change of use of a structure will always require planning permission, for example, irrespective of whether the structure is a protected structure or not.
Protected structure status does not mean that a building or its features are 'preserved' and cannot ever be altered, only that such alterations may require planning permission.
What is being protected is the 'character' of the structure. Certain repair or reinstatement works may be exempt if carried out to an approved standard in a way which does not alter the character. These standards are described in outline in the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government Conservation Guidelines.

Organization: Kilkenny County Council
National Monitoring Programme for Phytoplankton Species occurrence in Aquaculture Production Areas

The Phytoplankton National Monitoring Programme  for the identification and enumeration of phytoplanktonic species is an important measurement in the detection of those species which may form a Harmful Algal Bloom event. Where favourable environmental conditions occur, some species may form 'blooms' where high cell densities may cause water discolouration, foaming, mass mortalities of fish, shellfish, invertebrate and benthic organisms through oxygen depletion or produce biotoxins which can accumulate in species of filter feeding bi-valve molluscs, which can cause a variety of human illnesses if consumed when placed on the market for human consumption.
Since the 1980's, the Marine Institute have been operating a monitoring programme for the detection of these phytoplanktonic species via microscopy (method accredited to ISO 17025 standards) and have been publishing results of this analysis on a daily basis to competent authorities (The Food Safety Authority of Ireland& Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority) and industry. Samples are currently taken on a weekly basis from Classified Production shellfish aquaculture areas all around the Irish Coastline (up to approx. 100 production areas from Co. Louth - Co. Donegal), with a smaller number of samples taken from finfish aquaculture production sites. Samples are submitted to MI laboratories in Bantry & Galway for analysis where sample details, analysis and results are inputted, stored in, and generated from the Harmful Algal Blooms database (HABs - SQL Server database developed in-house), which has been in operation since 2002. These results are published from HABs and are publicly available through MI website; webapps.marine.ie/habs and are tabulated and graphed to show the occurrence, trends and patterns of HAB events, where all results from 2002 - current date can be downloaded per production area. This monitoring programme is in accordance with the relevant EU Legislation (627/2019), where the results feed into the NMP for marine biotoxins in shellfish.

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute
South Rockall Trough Sub-surface Mooring Pilot Deployment (October 2018 - May 2019) - CTD Data (Raw)

This dataset contains raw water temperature, conductivity (derived salinity) and pressure data from CTD instruments from a pilot deep water mooring deployed at a site (15.52 degrees West, 52.999 degrees North) in the South Rockall Trough close to the M6 met-ocean buoy. The pilot sub-surface mooring was deployed in October 2018, then retrieved in May 2019 and consisted of an array of 10 Sea-Bird SBE 37 CTD sensors at a series of fixed depths below the surface (500m, 625m, 750m, 1000m, 1250m, 1500m, 1750m, 2000m, 2500m, 3000m). This subsurface mooring pilot deployment collected data providing a short intra-annual time-series (~8 months)  and complements the annual Marine Institute oceanographic survey to the South Rockall Trough, which has taken place since 2004 weather conditions permitting. The CTD sensors were fully calibrated by Sea-Bird in Germany both pre and post deployment. Additional sensors on the mooring include ADCP sensors to measure ocean currents and direction. The mooring was built, deployed and managed by the Marine Institute through discretionary Marine Institute funding and loan of sensors from the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG). At present there are no operational or project funds available to maintain a continuous series of moorings at the South Rockall Trough location but when logistics and infrastructure are available future deployments may take place.

Tags: elevation, environment, oceans
Organization: Marine Institute
MÉRA (Met Éireann ReAnalysis) Climate Reanalysis

Climate reanalysis is a systematic approach used to produce meteorological datasets for climate monitoring and research. They are created using a fixed version of a forecast model and a data assimilation system which utilises historical observations and they produce parameters that are physically consistent and often not routinely observed. Thus, climate reanalyses have the potential to extend the knowledge gained from current observation networks.

Met Éireann has carried out a 35-year very high resolution (2.5 km horizontal grid) regional climate reanalysis for Ireland using the ALADIN-HIRLAM numerical weather prediction system (www.hirlam.org). This reanalysis spans the period 1981 to 2015 and includes surface, near-surface and atmospheric parameters and is the first of its kind for Ireland. See here for more detail Technical Note 65: http://edepositireland.ie/handle/2262/81711

Tags: climate, irradiance, precipitation, pressure, reanalysis, relative humidity, soil moisture, soil temperature, temperature, wind
Organization: Met Éireann
Irish Historic Towns Atlas

The dataset was created by Land Use Consultants (LUC) and is based on The Royal Irish Academy Irish Historic Towns Atlas (https://www.ria.ie/sites/default/files/origins_of_towns_0.pdf). The Historic Towns Atlas displays towns of over 3000 inhabitants and urban district towns along with information about their origin. The Atlas was used to identify the settlements and the locations were digitised based on coordinates for the settlements. The dataset shows towns within 2 km of the coast.

The Royal Irish Academy Historic Towns Atlas was used to identify historic towns. Google Earth was used to obtain latitude and longitude coordinates for each town. These were converted to a shapefile and sites within 2km of the coast were exported to create the final dataset.

Tags: environment, location
Organization: Royal Irish Academy
Detailed Shoreline Combined Wave Climate and Water Level Conditions (ICWWS 2018 – Phase 3)

Abstract: This dataset shows the Detailed Shoreline Combined Wave Climate and Water Level Conditions for the Coastal Areas Potentially Vulnerable to Wave Overtopping (CAPOs) that were included in Phase 3 of the Irish Coastal Wave and Water Level Modelling Study (ICWWS 2018). Joint probability water level and wave climate condition tables have been produced for each Phase 3 CAPO for the present day scenario, Mid-Range Future Scenario (MRFS), High End Future Scenario (HEFS), High + End Future Scenario (H+EFS) and High++ End Future Scenario (H++EFS) which represent a 0.5m, 1.0m, 1.5m and 2.0m increase in sea level respectively. For each AEP from 50% to 0.1%, six combinations of wave climate and water level conditions were produced representing the complete joint probability range. Users of this data should refer to the Irish Coastal Wave and Water Level Modelling Study 2018 Phase 3 Technical Report that can be found on https://www.floodinfo.ie/publications/.

Purpose: Phase 3 of the Irish Coastal Wave and Water Level Modelling Study (ICWWS) 2018 provides an improvement and update to the previous ICWWS 2013 study wave climate and water level combinations of known Annual Exceedance Probability (AEP) based on the inclusion of additional offshore wave data, bathymetry and topographic data for Dundalk, Carlingford, Tralee, Shannon and Bunratty. The outputs of the Phase 3 studies may inform the evaluation of the risk associated with wave overtopping, any resulting coastal flooding (both now and in the future) and the detailed design of measures to mitigate and manage any such identified coastal flood risk.

Tags: coast, coastal, flood, hydrography
Organization: Office of Public Works
Income earners, income and tax paid by Income Tax rate and personal status

This document provides a breakdown of the distribution of the number of income earners, the total taxable income and  tax, by tax band for married, single and  widowed income tax cases for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018

Tags: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, Income Distribution., Income Tax Rates, Marginal Relief, Married couples, Single Females, Single Males, Tax Band, Widowers, Widows
Organization: Revenue Commissioners
Local Property Tax (LPT) Statistics 2013 - 2015

Various Local Property Tax statistics including local authority breakdown as at end 2015

Tags: 2013, 2014, 2015, Administrator, Carlow, Cavan, Charitable recreational activities, Charity, Claims for Deferral or Exemption, Clare, Commercial rates, Community, Compliance data, Compliance letters, Compliance rate, Cork City, Cork County, Credit Card, DLR, Debit Card, Declared, Deduct at Source, Deferred, Department of the Environment, Diplomatic properties, Donegal, Dublin City, Exchequer Receipts, Executor, Exempt, Financial Loss, Fingal, First Time Buyer, Galway City, Galway County, Household Charge, Insolvent, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, LPT, LPT Collected, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick City and County, Local Adjustment Factor, Local Authorities, Local Government, Long-term illness, Longford, Louth, Mandatory Deduction at Source, Mayo, Meath, Mobile homes, Monaghan, Multiple Property Owners, Nursing homes, Offaly, Payment Types, Properties Returned, Public Body, Pyrite damaged, Roscommon, Service Provider, Severely incapacitated individual, Sheriff, Single debit authority, Sligo, South Dublin, Tipperary, Unfinished Housing Estates, Unsold, Valuation Bands, Valuations, Waterford City and County, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow, special needs, unused
Organization: Revenue Commissioners