Irish Spatial Data Exchange
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Point feature data represents National Inventory of Architectural Heritage within pilot study area.
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) is a state initiative under the administration of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and established on a statutory basis under the provisions of the Architectural Heritage (National Inventory) and Historic Monuments (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1999.
The purpose of the NIAH is to identify, record, and evaluate the post-1700 architectural heritage of Ireland, uniformly and consistently as an aid in the protection and conservation of the built heritage. NIAH surveys provide the basis for the recommendations of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to the planning authorities for the inclusion of particular structures in their Record of Protected Structures (RPS).
The published surveys are a source of information on the selected structures for relevant planning authorities. They are also a research and educational resource. It is hoped that the work of the NIAH will increase public awareness and appreciation of Ireland's architectural heritage.
BACKGROUND
1. Granada Convention
The Council of Europe, in Article 2 of the 1985 Convention for the Protection of the Architectural Heritage of Europe (Granada Convention), states that 'for the purpose of precise identification of the monuments, groups of structures and sites to be protected, each member State will undertake to maintain inventories of that architectural heritage.' The Granada Convention emphasises the importance of inventories in underpinning conservation policies.
The NIAH was established in 1990 to fulfill Ireland's obligations under the Granada Convention, through the establishment and maintenance of a central record, documenting and evaluating the architectural heritage of Ireland.
Article 1 of the Granada Convention establishes the parameters of this work by defining 'architectural heritage' under three broad categories of Monument, Groups of Buildings, and Sites.
1.Monument: all buildings and structures of conspicuous historical, archaeological, artistic, scientific, social or technical interest, including their fixtures and fittings;
2.Group of buildings: homogeneous groups of urban or rural buildings conspicuous for their historical, archaeological, artistic, scientific, social or technical interest, which are sufficiently coherent to form topographically definable units;
3.Sites: the combined works of man and nature, being areas which are partially built upon and sufficiently distinctive and homogenous to be topographically definable, and are of conspicuous historical, archaeological, artistic, scientific, social or technical interest.
The Council of Europe's definition of architectural heritage allows for the inclusion of structures, groups of structures and sites which are considered to be of significance in their own right, or which are of significance in their local context and environment. The NIAH believes it is important to consider the architectural heritage as encompassing a wide variety of structures and sites as diverse as post boxes, grand country houses, mill complexes and vernacular farmhouses.
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- Alternate title
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Pilot Areas
- Date (Creation)
- 2010-09-28
- 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 Dep Environment heritage & Local Government
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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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Buildings
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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, department environment heritage Local Government coastal heritage, Heritage council
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National Inventory of Architectural 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
- 3127
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Dep Environment heritage & Local Government
- 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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Data owned and provided by NIAH, Department of Environment, Heritage & Local Government.
For further information see; http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/SiteTools/Aboutus/.
Extracts were taken from NIAH database provided to Heritage Council Coastal Heritage project in June 2010 and converted to esri shapfile.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 548e209f-2d15-4d14-8012-52557304f1aa XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2010-11-17T15:07:02
- 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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