Irish Spatial Data Exchange
Special Areas 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.
Simple
- Alternate title
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SAC
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-12-06T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ / special-areas-of-conservation
- Purpose
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To report on and manage Special Area of Conservation designations within 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
National Parks and Wildlife 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 3.1
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protection of animals, protection of species, protection of birds, wildlife protection, terrestrial ecosystem, biodiversity, ecological, habitat, ecology, animal species, wildlife sanctuary
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National Parks and Wildlife Service
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Special Area of Conservation, SAC, National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, biodiversity, habitat, species, habitat protection, heritage, National Biodiversity Plan
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ISO 3166
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Ireland
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- Use limitation
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Copyright Government of Ireland. This dataset was created by National Parks and Wildlife 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
- Biota
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Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- 0
- Maximum value
- 1014
Vertical CS
Vertical datum
- Reference system identifier
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EPSG
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https://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/2157
EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25
- Distribution format
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Name Version Esri shapefile
v10.x
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
National Parks and Wildlife Service
Point of contact
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name application/zip
https://www.npws.ie//sites/default/files/files/SAC_ITM_2024_12.zip Zip file containing shapefile download
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name text/html
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/edf34d92e28040fd87d3d14f55d8d95f/ National Parks and Wildlife Service Protected Sites Map Viewer
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC:WMS
https://dservices-eu1.arcgis.com/Jhij7i46ouO8Cc0N/arcgis/services/NPWSDesignatedAreasWFS/WFSServer?service=wfs&request=getcapabilities WMS GetCapabilities operation
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name ESRI REST
https://services-eu1.arcgis.com/Jhij7i46ouO8Cc0N/arcgis/rest/services/NPWSDesignatedAreas/FeatureServer/ esri rest
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Data Specification on Protected sites
- Alternate title
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INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.2
- Date (Publication)
- 2014-04-17
- Explanation
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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.
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- Title
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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
- Alternate title
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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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This spatial dataset and associated web services is currently presented in Irish Transverse Mercator projection. The majority of site boundaries were originally digitised from Ordnance Survey of Ireland 1:10560 six-inch raster data in Irish Grid. Over time an increasing number of site boundaries in this dataset will be replotted to Ordnance Survey of Ireland 1:5000 vector mapping in Irish Transverse Mercator. The spatial dataset and associated web services contain two feature level metadata fields: SOURCE_SCALE AND SOURCE_CRS to identify the source scale and projection that the site boundary feature is derived from.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 2593190e-9a49-43a4-b4a8-9467257099fa XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-12-06T15:11:00
- 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
National Parks and Wildlife Service
Author
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