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INSPIRE Strategic noise maps. Noise contour map for industry noise in agglomerations – Lnight
This is a polygon dataset of the strategic noise mapping of agglomeration industry for Round 4 (2022), representing the situation during 2021, in the form of noise contours for the Lnight period.
The dB value represents the annual average Lnight indicator value in decibels over the night time.
The values are calculated at a height of 4.0m above local terrain, not measured, and should be treated with caution when looking at specific locations.
The strategic noise mapping of industry was undertaken by Noise Consultants Limited inside the three noise agglomerations, under contract to the agglomeration local authorities.
The outputs of the Round 4 noise mapping exercise were generated using a new common noise assessment method for Europe (CNOSSOS-EU), as set out in the revised Annex II of Directive 2002/49/EC, and they are not directly comparable to any strategic noise maps previously generated under Rounds 1 to 3, as these revised methods calculate noise emissions, propagation and residential population exposure differently from the methods used in previous rounds.
The noise maps are the product of assimilating a collection of digital datasets, and over the last 15 years there have been ongoing significant improvements to the quality of the digital datasets describing the natural and built environment in Ireland, therefore the Round 4 strategic noise mapping includes changes to the model input datasets being used, compared to previous rounds, particularly related to the industrial areas modelled, the terrain model, building heights and ground cover.
The strategic noise maps should not be relied upon in the context of planning applications for noise sensitive developments in the vicinity of the mapped sources.
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INSPIRE Strategic Noise Mapping of Industry Noise in Agglomerations 2022 Lnight
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-12-31
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-05-27
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-05-27
- Citation identifier
- EPA / HH.IE.EPA.NOISE_Industry_Agglomeration_Lnight
- Citation identifier
- EPA / HH.HealthDeterminantMeasure
- Purpose
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Strategic noise maps are to be made every 5 years by noise mapping bodies designated under the European Communities (Environmental Noise) Regulations, SI 549 of 2018, which transposed EC Directive 2002/49/EC into Irish legislation.
These strategic noise maps were prepared for Round 4 (2022), representing the annual average situation during 2021.
The strategic noise maps are to be used to identify priorities (Important Areas and Priority Important Areas) for noise action plans, which are to be made or revised every 5 years by designated action planning authorities, namely Local Authorities. They can also be used to identify potential Quiet areas in the three noise agglomerations.
The strategic noise maps should not be relied upon in the context of planning applications for noise sensitive developments in the vicinity of the mapped sources.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.3
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noise measurement
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noise exposure plan
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noise type
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noise legislation
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noise level
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noise monitoring
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Environmental Protection Agency
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noise legislation
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noise contours
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noise decibels
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noise action plan
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industry
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Ireland
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Human health and safety INSPIRE
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
User
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no conditions to access and use
- Other constraints
- CC BY 4.0
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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/ ]
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- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Health
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- Supplemental Information
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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
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:29902 (TM65 / Irish Grid))
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:4258 (ETRS89 geographical coordinates)
- Distribution format
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Name Version gml+xml 3.2
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
Point of contact
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC Web Map Service https://www.inspire.gov.ie/geoserver/inspire_epa/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE View Service WMS
ATOM Syndication Format
https://epa-inspire-atom.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files/atomEPA_INSPIRE_Ireland.xml DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE Download Service ATOM
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2014-12-31
- Pass
- Yes
Conformance result
- Statement
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Strategic noise maps are to be made every 5 years by noise mapping bodies designated under the European Communities (Environmental Noise) Regulations, SI 549 of 2018, which transposed EC Directive 2002/49/EC into Irish legislation.
These strategic noise maps were prepared for Round 4 (2022), representing the annual average situation during 2021.
The strategic noise maps are to be used to identify priorities for noise action plans, which are to be made or revised every 5 years by designated action planning authorities, namely Local Authorities. They can also be used to identify potential Quiet areas in the three noise agglomerations.
This is a polygon dataset of the strategic noise mapping of agglomeration industry, in the form of noise contours for the Lnight period for Cork, Dublin and Limerick agglomerations.
The contour polygons are derived by interpolation from calculated points on a regular 10m spacing located outside building footprints. Calculations were undertaken using Predictor-LimA software in line with the methodology in the consolidated Annex II of Directive 2002/49/EC as of 28 July 2022.
The industrial facilities included within the strategic noise mapping are those within the three noise agglomerations subject to an EPA license under implementation of the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) Directive 2010/75/EU.
The dB value represents the annual average Lnight indicator value in decibels over the night time.
The values are calculated at a height of 4.0m above local terrain, not measured, and should be treated with caution when looking at specific locations.
The strategic noise mapping of industry was undertaken by Noise Consultants Limited inside the three noise agglomerations, under contract to the agglomeration local authorities.
The outputs of the Round 4 noise mapping exercise were generated using a new common noise assessment method for Europe (CNOSSOS-EU), as set out in the revised Annex II of Directive 2002/49/EC, and they are not comparable to any strategic noise maps previously generated under Rounds 1 to 3, as these revised methods calculate noise emissions, propagation and residential population exposure differently from the methods used in previous rounds.
The noise maps are the product of assimilating a collection of digital datasets, and over the last 15 years there have been ongoing significant improvements to the quality of the digital datasets describing the natural and built environment in Ireland, therefore the Round 4 strategic noise mapping includes changes to the model input datasets being used, compared to previous rounds, particularly related to the industrial areas modelled, the terrain model, building heights and ground cover.
The strategic noise maps should not be relied upon in the context of planning applications for noise sensitive developments in the vicinity of the mapped sources.
Metadata
- File identifier
- IEf81b5ee8-bc4f-4637-a776-1009c7b67d1a XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-09-24T15:58:08.386Z
- Metadata standard name
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) Nº 1205/2008 of INSPIRE Directive
- Metadata standard version
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TG 2.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
Point of contact
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