IEf81b5ee8-bc4f-4637-a776-1009c7b67d1a 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 2025-09-24T15:58:08.386Z 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 industry noise in agglomerations – Lnight INSPIRE Strategic Noise Mapping of Industry Noise in Agglomerations 2022 Lnight 2022-12-31 2024-05-27 2024-05-27 HH.IE.EPA.NOISE_Industry_Agglomeration_Lnight EPA HH.HealthDeterminantMeasure EPA 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. 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. 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 – industrial noise exposure delineation - 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 industry 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 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. 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.