9033ec55-b0f0-49e3-9a7b-4fea438c961d National Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage Ecological Data Manager +353-1-8882000 0 National Parks and Wildlife Service 90 North King Street Dublin 7 D07 N7CV Ireland datadelivery@housing.gov.ie 2025-05-12T14:29:28 ISDI Metadata Profile 1.2 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25 https://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/29903 EPSG Commonage GIS Dataset Commonage survey 2012-01-27T00:00:00 commonage-gis-dataset https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ Commonage Framework Planning was a joint initiative between the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Department of Agriculture and Food. Teams combining agricultural and ecological skills to assess the sustainable use of these areas have surveyed all known commonage areas in Ireland. To date in excess of 4,400 plans have been prepared, covering more than 440,000 hectares. Where necessary, destocking (removal of some of the stock kept on commonage) was prescribed to ensure recovery of the vegetation. These plans have been implemented through REPS, AEOS and the NPWS Farm Plan Scheme, as relevant, from 1999 - 2012. A commitment has been made to monitor the condition of commonages to demonstrate, in particular, that initiatives are delivering recovery in overgrazed areas and that undergrazing is not becoming a problem. Ireland also has obligations to monitor the state of SACs containing uplands and peatlands in non-commonage areas. This involves a reassessment of habitats in commonage areas, some of which were assessed as early as 1999, and also non-commonage areas. Planning teams comprising both agriculturalists and environmentalists have been trained and re-surveys have been completed in commonage blocks in Counties Mayo, Galway, Cork, Kerry, Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Tipperary, Limerick and Louth between 2004 and 2010. Monitoring reports have been forwarded to the EU Commission highlighting the findings and trends. Additional survey work in 2007 focussed on Counties Mayo, Donegal and Kerry. In 2008, all commonage that had a destocking of greater than 50% were re-assessed. In this context GIS files were set up to describe: - Destocking rates assigned to Agricultural Units - Habitat types and damage categories assigned to Agricultural Sub-Units and - Locations of Base-Stations and habitat types / damage categories recorded at these stations A review of all the Commonage Framework Plans, setting sustainable stocking rates, will conclude in 2012 and will be communicated to all shareholders by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. This information is not contained here. These datasets present the spatial output from Commonage Framework Plans, and facilitate the monitoring of the condition of commonage. National Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage Ecological Data Manager +353-1-8882000 0 National Parks and Wildlife Service 90 North King Street Dublin 7 D07 N7CV Ireland datadelivery@housing.gov.ie Habitats and biotopes GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 GEMET 2008-12-05 habitat, biodiversity, vegetation cover, erosion control GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1 GEMET 2012-07-20 commonage, National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, species, habitat protection, heritage, National Biodiversity Plan National Parks and Wildlife Service NPWS 2015-07-27 Ireland ISO 3166 ISO Country List 2008-12-13 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ opyright 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. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 5000 environment biota farming -11.265947788472001 -5.7508110697222 51.205966241541006 55.820224054041 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 Ecological Data Manager +353-1-8882000 0 National Parks and Wildlife Service 90 North King Street Dublin 7 D07 N7CV Ireland datadelivery@housing.gov.ie.ie https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/general/commonage-dec-12.zip application/zip Zip file containing shapefiles download Download SHP INSPIRE Data Specification on Habitats and Biotopes INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0 2013-12-10 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 **Commonage Agricultural Units shapefile (Commonage_Base_Plan_2011_National_v04.shp)** This polygon GIS file shows the Commonage Agricultural Units in the Republic of Ireland. Assigned to these Agricultural Units are destocking rates as assessed by teams combining agricultural and ecological skills. Attributes assigned to Agricultural Units in the shapefile include - prescribed destocking - date of survey - name of ecological / agricultural assessors **Commonage Agricultural Sub-Units shapefile (Commonage_Base_SU_2011_National_v03.shp)** This polygon GIS file shows the Commonage Agricultural Sub-Units in the Republic of Ireland. Assigned to these Agricultural Sub-Units are habitat types, as well as vegetation condition types or levels of damage as assessed by teams combining agricultural and ecological skills. The following vegetation condition types are assigned to Agricultural Sub-Units in the shapefile: Undamaged: U: Areas where grazing damage is not detectable Moderate damage : MU: Areas where grazing damage is clearly detectable MM: Areas where grazing damage is evident but nowhere very heavy MS: Areas where there are many signs of grazing damage but where the S/S* threshold is not reached Severe damage: S: Based on bare peat (>5%) and heather condition S*: Based on bare peat (>10%) and heather condition The habitat type attribute field holds the following categories: I Blanket Bog II Wet Heath III Dry Heath (includes maritime) IV Upland Grassland V Other habitats VI Improved Grassland VII Dune VIII Unimproved wet grassland IX Unimproved dry grassland X Fen/Marsh/Swamp XI Saltmarsh XII Beach/Shingle/Reef/Shore XIII Limestone Pavement/Grassland XIV Limestone Pavement (>75% rock) XV Scrub XVI Permanent open water (turlough) **Commonage Stations (Commonage_Base_Station_2011_National_v01.shp)** This point GIS file shows the Commonage Stations in the Republic of Ireland. Assigned to these Stations are habitat types, as well as vegetation condition types or levels of damage as assessed by teams combining agricultural and ecological skills. As in the Sub-Units file, the following vegetation condition types are assigned to Commonage Stations in the shapefile: Undamaged: U: Areas where grazing damage is not detectable Moderate damage : MU: Areas where grazing damage is clearly detectable MM: Areas where grazing damage is evident but nowhere very heavy MS: Areas where there are many signs of grazing damage but where the S/S* threshold is not reached Severe damage: S: Based on bare peat (>5%) and heather condition S*: Based on bare peat (>10%) and heather condition The habitat type attribute field holds the following categories: I Blanket Bog II Wet Heath III Dry Heath (includes maritime) IV Upland Grassland V Other habitats VI Improved Grassland VII Dune VIII Unimproved wet grassland IX Unimproved dry grassland X Fen/Marsh/Swamp XI Saltmarsh XII Beach/Shingle/Reef/Shore XIII Limestone Pavement/Grassland XIV Limestone Pavement (>75% rock) XV Scrub XVI Permanent open water (turlough)