2593190e-9a49-43a4-b4a8-9467257099fa National Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage NPWS Data Manager +353-1-8882000 0 National Parks and Wildlife Service 90 North King Street Dublin 7 D07 N7CV Ireland datadelivery@housing.gov.ie 2026-02-13T15:25:21Z ISDI Metadata Profile 1.2 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25 https://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/2157 EPSG Special Areas of Conservation SAC 2026-02-13T00:00:00 special-areas-of-conservation https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) are part of the Natura 2000 network of European sites, designated in accordance with the EU Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC), to protect selected habitats and species. SACs boundaries are mapped using Irish Transverse Mercator (epsg 2157) or Irish Grid. Off-shore marine SACs are in WGS84 (epsg 4326) and have their areas calculated in ETRS89 LAEA (epsg 3035). Details of the co-ordinate system for each SAC site can be found in the attribute table. 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. To report on and manage Special Area of Conservation designations within the Republic of Ireland. National Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage NPWS Data Manager +353-1-8882000 - National Parks and Wildlife Service 90 North King Street Dublin 7 D07 N7CV Ireland datadelivery@housing.gov.ie Protected sites GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 GEMET 2008-12-05 protection of animals, protection of species, protection of birds, wildlife protection, terrestrial ecosystem, biodiversity, ecological, habitat, ecology, animal species, wildlife sanctuary GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.3 GEMET 2021-12-06 Special Area of Conservation, SAC, National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, biodiversity, habitat, species, habitat protection, heritage, National Biodiversity Action Plan National Parks and Wildlife Service NPWS 2026-01-30 Ireland ISO 3166 ISO Country List 2008-12-13 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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/ 10560 environment biota -10.56 -5.34 51.39 55.43 0 1014 An Ordnance Datum or OD is a vertical datum used by an ordnance survey as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps. A spot height may be expressed as AOD for "above ordnance datum". Usually mean sea level (MSL) is used for the datum. Malin Ordnance Datum Derivation of vertical height or depth (in metres) In the Republic of Ireland, OD for the Ordnance Survey of Ireland is Malin Ordnance Datum: the Mean Sea Level (MSL) at Portmoor Pier, Malin Head, County Donegal, between 1960 and 1969. 5731 EPSG Projection 5731 - Malin Head height Metres Derivation of Altitude OD based on Mean Sea Level, Malin Head 1960-1969 Esri shapefile v10.x National Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage NPWS Data Manager +353-1-8882000 - National Parks and Wildlife Service 90 North King Street Smithfield D07 N7CV Ireland datadelivery@housing.gov.ie.ie https://www.npws.ie//sites/default/files/files/SAC_ITM_2026_01.zip application/zip Zip file containing shapefile download Download SHP https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/edf34d92e28040fd87d3d14f55d8d95f/ text/html National Parks and Wildlife Service Protected Sites Map Viewer View map https://dservices-eu1.arcgis.com/Jhij7i46ouO8Cc0N/arcgis/services/NPWSDesignatedAreasWFS/WFSServer?service=wfs&request=getcapabilities OGC:WFS WFS GetCapabilities operation WFS GetCapabilities https://services-eu1.arcgis.com/Jhij7i46ouO8Cc0N/arcgis/rest/services/NPWSDesignatedAreas/FeatureServer/ ESRI REST esri rest esri rest INSPIRE Data Specification on Protected sites INSPIRE Data Specifications v2024.1 2024-01-31 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. false 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 INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation 2010-12-08 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 false 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.