Irish Spatial Data Exchange
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.
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WHP_REPUBLIC_OF_IRELAND
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-10-20T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ / bfac9184-59da-4058-9ee2-e1318b822b46
- Purpose
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To define the boudnaries of the World Heritage Properties in the Republic of Ireland.
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Data Manager - National Monuments Service
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Protected sites
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GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
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archaeology
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ISO 3166
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Ireland
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- Use limitation
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- Other restrictions
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Copyright Government of Ireland. This dataset was created by National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. This copyright material is licensed for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 10560
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Planning cadastre
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Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- 0
- Maximum value
- 0
Vertical CS
Vertical datum
- Reference system identifier
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https://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/
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2157
EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25
- Distribution format
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Name Version CSV
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SHP
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- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Data Manager - National Monuments Service
Publisher
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name zip/shp
https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=ed88acc8f047414bb98e24eb5512a511 National Bulk Data Download -shp
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name Feature service
https://services-eu1.arcgis.com/HyjXgkV6KGMSF3jt/arcgis/rest/services/UNESCOHeritageSites/FeatureServer ESRI Feature Service
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Protocol Linkage Name application/html
https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8 Historic Environment Viewer app
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Data Specification on Protected sites
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INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0
- Date (Publication)
- 2011-06-15
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The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.
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- No
Conformance result
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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Level of conformance with the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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- No
- Statement
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It is important to note that this mapping uses the Irish Transverse Mercator (ITM) co-ordinate system. In order to facilitate users during the transition from Irish Grid (IG) to ITM, downloads will include both sets of co-ordinates. The existing point centroids for the records were digitised relative to the OSI 6-inch mapping and the move from this older IG-referenced series to the larger-scale ITM mapping will necessitate revisions.
Metadata
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- 1721f420-0b09-4213-b177-6e0f760eb9b1 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-11-13T10:53:38
- Metadata standard name
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ISDI Metadata Profile
- Metadata standard version
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1.2
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Data Manager
Author
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