Irish Spatial Data Exchange
Special Protection Areas
The EU Birds Directive (79/409/EEC) requires designation of SPAs for: listed rare and vulnerable species; regularly occurring migratory species, such as ducks, geese and waders; wetlands, especially those of international importance, which attract large numbers of migratory birds each year. (Internationally important means that 1% of the population of a species uses the site, or more than 20,000 birds regularly use the site.)
This is a national dataset.
Simple
- Alternate title
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SPA
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-01-11T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ / special-protection-areas
- Purpose
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To report on and manage Special Protection Area 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 birds, wildlife protection, biodiversity,habitat, ecology, bird, bird species
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National Parks and Wildlife Service
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Special Protection Area, SPA, National Parks and Wildlife Service, biodiversity, birds 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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http://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/SPA_ITM_2024_01.zip Zip file containing shapefile download
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name text/html
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/edf34d92e28040fd87d3d14f55d8d95f/ NPWS 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 api
- 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
- Pass
- 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
- 4f748046-6513-4a78-b5ca-39e2e5a8629f XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-12-06T15:10:50
- 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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