9a869def-9412-40b1-8ecd-f5722e9e17ae English Environmental Protection Agency Scientific Officer +353-53-9160600 +353-53-9160601 PO Box 3000 Johnstown Castle Estate Wexford Co. Wexford Ireland gis@epa.ie http://gis.epa.ie 2025-09-24T16:22:08.08Z COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) Nº 1205/2008 of INSPIRE Directive TG 2.0 EPSG:29902 (TM65 / Irish Grid)) EPSG:4258 (ETRS89 geographical coordinates) INSPIRE Strategic noise maps. Noise contour map for roads noise in agglomerations – Lden INSPIRE Strategic Noise Mapping of Roads Noise in Agglomerations 2017 Lden 2018-10-08 2024-05-27 2018-10-08 HH.IE.EPA.NOISE_Road_Agglomeration_Lden EPA HH.HealthDeterminantMeasure EPA This is a polygon dataset of the strategic noise mapping of roads, which were identified as those roads exceeding the flow threshold of 3 million passages per year, in the form of noise contours for the Lden (day, evening, night) period for Dublin and Cork agglomerations and the major roads outside of the agglomerations. The dB value represents the average decibel value during the Lden time. Any direct comparison of the Round 3 versus Round 2 results should be carefully considered, as changes to the model input datasets used between these rounds may be significant. This may especially apply to the terrain model used, while there may be improved building height data, & improved traffic flow data with fewer assumed flows. There may also be some revisions to the actual road network modelled in Round 3. The noise maps are the product of assimilating a collection of digital datasets, and over the last 10 years there has been significant improvements to the quality of the digital datasets describing the natural and built environment in Ireland. This has led to the strategic noise models giving much more reliable noise results with much less tendency to over predict the impact. UPDATE (February 2019): The Regional roads in 26 Local Authorities (LAs) outside of Dublin, and Cork have now been amended by Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII). The original road maps had included some significant stretches of roads (~20%) that were below the 3 million vehicles movements/annum reporting threshold. These road sections have now been removed and revised Regional road maps have been released by TII. This TII review process has resulted in an update of the National road map that is reported to the EEA. The EPA has also updated our website to reflect these changes, and we will also look to provide relevant links to the Final LA Noise Action Plans (when completed): http://www.epa.ie/monitoringassessment/noisemapping/ The strategic noise mapping of the major roads across Ireland was undertaken by the National Roads Authority with the support of the local authorities within whose functional areas the major roads were located. They provide supplementary information relating to the Noise Action Plans developed in 2013 for the major roads in Ireland as part of the second round of the implementation of the EC Directive 2002/49/EC. The Directive was transposed in Ireland as Statutory Instrument, S.I. 140 of 2006, Environmental Noise Regulation 2006. Environmental Protection Agency Data Manager +353-53-9160600 +353-53-9160601 PO Box 3000 Johnstown Castle Estate Wexford Co. Wexford Ireland gis@epa.ie http://gis.epa.ie aaa Human health and safety GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 Agglomerations - roads noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) INSPIRE priority data set 2018-04-04 National Spatial scope 2019-05-22 noise measurement noise exposure plan noise type noise legislation noise level noise monitoring General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.3 GEMET 2019-01-28 noise legislation noise contours noise decibels noise action plan road Environmental Protection Agency EPA 2014-06-23 Ireland Human health and safety INSPIRE Environmental Protection Agency gis@epa.ie no limitations to public access no conditions to access and use CC BY 4.0 This layer is published under the terms of the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). [ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ] 50000 English environment health -10.47472 -6.01306 51.44555 55.37999 Reporting obligation for: Strategic noise maps (DF 4 and DF 8) http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/369 Eionet Central Data Repository http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/ie/eu/noise/df8/envummpda More Information About Data http://www.epa.ie/monitoringassessment/noisemapping/ Download Data files https://gis.epa.ie/GetData/Download View Data https://gis.epa.ie/EPAMaps/EnvironmentAndWellbeing gml+xml 3.2 D2.8.III.5 Data Specification on Human Health and Safety – Technical Guidelines Environmental Protection Agency Data Manager +353-53-9160600 +353-53-9160601 PO Box 3000 Johnstown Castle Estate Wexford Co. Wexford Ireland gis@epa.ie http://gis.epa.ie https://www.inspire.gov.ie/geoserver/inspire_epa/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities OGC Web Map Service View Service DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE View Service WMS Access point https://epa-inspire-atom.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files/atomEPA_INSPIRE_Ireland.xml ATOM Syndication Format Download Service DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE Download Service ATOM Access point 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 2014-12-31 This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services true Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata 2008-12-24 Conformant true The strategic noise mapping of the major roads across Ireland was undertaken by the National Roads Authority with the support of the local authorities within whose functional areas the major roads were located. They provide supplementary information relating to the Noise Action Plans developed in 2013 for the major roads in Ireland as part of the second round of the implementation of the EC Directive 2002/49/EC. The Directive was transposed in Ireland as Statutory Instrument, S.I. 140 of 2006, Environmental Noise Regulation 2006. There were a total of approximately 8,300 kilometers of major roads identified as exceeding the flow threshold of 3 million passages per year. There was approximately 806 km of major roads inside the agglomeration of Dublin, 164 km of major roads inside the agglomeration of Cork, and approximately 7,330 km of major roads outside the two agglomerations. Action Plans were drawn up for major roads which include sections of designated National roads, and non-National roads, within each of the 34 local authority areas. The EPA must be notified if any errors or omissions are found. It is not permitted to distribute electronic copies of this data to any other party without the prior consent of the data holders (Environmental Protection Agency). The data source must be appropriately acknowledged.