Irish Spatial Data Exchange
Inventory of Irish coastal lagoons 2007
Before the Habitats Directive, only four lagoons were at all well known in Ireland (Lady’s Island Lake, Tacumshin Lake, Lough Murree, Furnace Lough) and very few biological studies had been published. Under the obligations of the Directive, the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) of the Irish Government commissioned a series of surveys of coastal lagoons in Ireland in order to compile an inventory of lagoons in the country for selection of representative examples for designation as, or within, SACs.
Surveys were carried out in 1996 (Good 1996, Good and Butler 1998, Hatch 1996, Hatch and Healy 1998, Healy and Oliver 1998, Oliver and Healy 1998). These surveys were summarised by Healy et al. 1997a,b,c.
Further surveys were carried out in 1998 (Healy 1999a,b; Oliver 1999, Roden 1999, Good 1999, Good and Butler 2000). An inventory of approximately 100 lagoons was compiled as a result of these surveys and 36 of the higher conservation value lagoons were sampled over a 1-4 day period, depending on the size of the lagoon.
More lagoons were sampled from 2002-3 as part of a PhD study (Oliver 2005, Roden 2004).
Simple
- Alternate title
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Lagoon Survey 2007
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-01-01T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ / inventory-of-irish-coastal-lagoons-2007
- Purpose
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The principal objectives of this project were to:
1. Select four different lagoon types and sample fauna and flora seasonally to gain some understanding of seasonal changes which may occur, in order to design appropriate monitoring procedures.
2. Sample an additional 24 lagoons to produce a total data set from 60 lagoons, which could be analysed statistically to produce a biological classification of Irish coastal lagoons.
3. Use the information collected from the 60 lagoons sampled, together with others visited briefly, to compare with information available concerning lagoons in other Member States in order to put the Irish lagoons into a European context.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
National Parks and Wildlife Service
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Habitats and biotopes
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GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1
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habitat, biodiversity, coastal ecosystem, coastal environment, lagoon
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National Parks and Wildlife Service
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National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, species, habitat protection, heritage, National Biodiversity Plan
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ISO 3166
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Ireland
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- Use limitation
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Copyright 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. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 5000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Biota
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Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- 0
- Maximum value
- 1014
Vertical CS
Vertical datum
- Reference system identifier
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EPSG
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https://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/29903
EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25
- Distribution format
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Name Version Esri shapefile
v10.x
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
National Parks and Wildlife Service
Point of contact
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name application/zip
https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/general/inventory-of-coastal-lagoons.zip Zip file containing shapefile download
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name text/html
https://dahg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=84c513c7dceb4233902f49f3a184e22d ESRI Web Application
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name ESRI REST
https://services-eu1.arcgis.com/Jhij7i46ouO8Cc0N/arcgis/rest/services/InventoryofIrishCoastalLagoons2007/FeatureServer ESRI Rest
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WFS
https://dservices-eu1.arcgis.com/Jhij7i46ouO8Cc0N/arcgis/services/InventoryofIrishCoastalLagoons2007WFS/WFSServer?service=wfs&request=getcapabilities WFS
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Data Specification on Habitats and Biotopes
- Alternate title
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INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0
- Date (Publication)
- 2013-12-10
- Explanation
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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.
- Pass
- Yes
Conformance result
- Title
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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
- Alternate title
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INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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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
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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The Inventory_of_Irish_Coastal_Lagoons_polygons.shp dataset was based on the lagoons identified in the Inventory of Coastal Lagoons 2007. Included in the inventory were sketch maps for each lagoon. However, due the scale and lack of background mapping these sketch maps could only be used as a reference tool in the creation of this spatial dataset.
The OSi 1:5000 vector dataset was used as the basis for the creation of the Inventory_of_Irish_Coastal_Lagoons_polygons.shp dataset. The polylines from the OSi 1:5000 dataset, which corresponded to the extent of the lagoons were copied into a new lagoon polyline dataset. These polylines were then converted into a polygon dataset. In cases where the OSi 1:5000 vector dataset did not contain any spatial data for lagoons identified in the inventory, the OSi 2005 orthophotographs (1:40000) were used as the base layer to manually digitise the boundary of these lagoons. It should be noted that expert knowledge was used to correct instances where what was indicated on the OSi 1:5000 dataset did not match what was apparent on the ground from the orthophotographs.
This dataset has been created using ArcMap 10.
The source coordinate reference system is the Irish National Grid.
Metadata
- File identifier
- a1b79992-68f1-4486-9d48-45a3af724b9f XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-06-16T13:45:31
- Metadata standard name
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ISDI Metadata Profile
- Metadata standard version
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1.2
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
National Parks and Wildlife Service
Author
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