Irish Spatial Data Exchange
National Roads Authority Excavations
Dataset owned and provided by NRA.
Point dataset representative of NRA excavation sites between 2001 to 2007.
NRA & Archaeology
Consideration of archaeology is fully integrated into the national road scheme planning process and is directly managed by the NRA’s Archaeology section with a view to meeting our statutory obligations, observing best practice, controlling costs,
contributing to the efficient delivery of road schemes and disseminating the results of NRA-funded archaeological investigations.
The Archaeology section is responsible for the management of the archaeological
implications of national road projects. The management function is dictated by
requirements in An Bord Pleanála approvals, as well as environmental and national
monument legislation; in particular, conditions imposed by the Minister for the
Environment, Heritage and Local Government as to how archaeological excavations
are conducted and newly discovered sites and features are dealt with. These
management functions are exercised through the procurement and management of
archaeological consultants and, where appropriate, the works are undertaken directly
by Authority Archaeologists.
The primary objective is to complete all archaeological works in advance of the
commencement of construction so as to minimise the Authority’s exposure to risk and
to minimise the consequential exposure to costs. This is of particular relevance to
Design and Build contracts and Public-Private-Partnership contracts.
It is also a key objective to ensure that the vast quantity of information created by the
Authority’s work can be realised to its full potential and that the knowledge generated
feeds back not only into the decision making and project planning process, but also
that this knowledge is disseminated to the general public. These activities also make
a valuable contribution to promoting a greater awareness of the past among local
communities through which national road schemes pass.
The cumulative effect of the archaeological work undertaken regarding scheme
management, best practice guidance, dissemination and research, ensures that the
Authority not only fulfils its statutory obligations as set down in legislation and
national policy, but also demonstrates the Authority’s commitment to meaningful
compliance. These efforts also serve to place the Authority at the cutting edge of the
development and application of new investigation and excavation technologies and
techniques, with direct benefits for the efficiency of our work on archaeology on road
schemes. Collectively these works support the Authority’s core objective of
contributing to sustainable development.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2010-10-05
- Citation identifier
- Coastal Heritage / Heritage Council
- Cited responsible party
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Heritage Council
Beatrice Kelly
Point of contact Heritage Council
Beatrice Kelly
Publisher National Roads Authority
Ronan Swan
Owner
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Heritage Council
Beatrice Kelly
Point of contact
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Protected sites
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National Roads Authority Excavations
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National Roads Authority Excavations, Heritage Council, Coastal Heritage
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Seek Permissions
- Use limitation
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Seek Permissions
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Society
- Environment description
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Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3500
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- Reference system identifier
- TM65_Irish_Grid
- Topology level
- Geometry only
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Geometric object count
- 112
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role National Roads Authority
- Distributor format
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Name Version SDE Feature Class
- Transfer size
- 0.066
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name ArcSDE Connection
Server=w08-sde93; Service=5273; Database=HCVector; User=HCVectorAdmin; Version=sde.DEFAULT
- Transfer size
- 0.066
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name ArcSDE Connection
Server=w08-sde93; Service=5273; Database=HCVector; User=HCVectorAdmin; Version=sde.DEFAULT
- Statement
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Dataset owned and provided by NRA.
Database extracts were filtered by county and shape files generated. Coordinates are in IG.
Dataset attributed by 'Townland' and 'Site Type'.
Contact www.nra.ie or www.nra.ie/Archaeology/ for further information.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 26e98ff7-0cdd-4607-91f1-4b347b629afc XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2010-11-17T13:27:05
- Metadata standard name
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Based on ISO 19115:2005/19139:2007 INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC Metadata Implementing Rules
- Metadata standard version
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1.2 INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Compass Informatics
Ali Robinson
Point of contact
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