Designated Bathing Water Locations

The location of Designated Bathing Waters under the Bathing Water Directive (Directive 2006/7/EC) which was implemented in Ireland through the Bathing Water Quality Regulations, 2008 (S.I. No. 79 of 2008).

Simple

Alternate title

EPA Bathing Water
Date (Creation)
2011-06-08T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2011-06-08T00:00:00
Date (Revision)
2024-03-25T00:00:00
Citation identifier
HH.IE.EPA.BATH_BATHINGLOCATIONS
Purpose

To provide information about the quality of bathing waters (sea, river or lake surface waters) which local authorities consider to be widely used by the public for bathing.

Status
On going
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Environmental Protection Agency

Informatics

gis@epa.ie

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

GemetInspireTheme

  • Human health and safety

GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

  • human health

  • water

  • bathing water

  • bathing seawater

  • bathing freshwater

Environmental Protection Agency

  • bathing water quality

  • beach

  • beach quality

  • splash

  • environmental quality

  • swimming

  • freshwater quality

ISO 3166

  • IE
Use limitation

no limitations
Use limitation

Data is for public use under Creative Commons CC-By 4.0
Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License
Other constraints

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
50000
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
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Begin date
2011-01-08T00:00:00
End date
2015-01-26T00:00:00

Vertical extent

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
1014

Vertical CS

No information provided.

Vertical datum

Reference system identifier
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/29902

EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25

Distribution format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile

10.x
Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Environmental Protection Agency

Informatics

gis@epa.ie

Publisher
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		https://www.beaches.ie/

View data
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

application/json

 		http://gis.epa.ie/geoserver/EPA/ows?service=WFS&version=1.0.0&request=GetFeature&typeName=EPA:BathingWaterQuality&maxFeatures=50&outputFormat=application%2Fjson&srsName=EPSG:4326

GeoJSON
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

text/html

 		http://gis.epa.ie/GetData/Download

Download data
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

image/png

 		http://gis.epa.ie/geoserver/EPA/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&request=GetMap&layers=EPA:BathingWaterQuality&styles=&bbox=38219.9992356,25182.99949634,333663.00667326,450007.00900014&width=534&height=768&srs=EPSG:29902&format=image%2Fpng

WMS GetMap
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Title

INSPIRE Data Specification on Human health and safety
Alternate title

INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0
Date (Publication)
2013-12-10
Explanation

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
No

Conformance result

Title

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

INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

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
No
Statement

Each Local Authority in Ireland was asked to provide details of the bathing location in their area and XY points are created from the coordinates supplied. The coordinates supplied were standardised in 2011 to only include the exact monitoring location at each bathing water. Other attributes were added by the EPA. Register of Protected Area codes are unique incremental numbers (eg PA3_0125). IDBW (Bathing Water ID for reporting to Europe) is in the format set out in the Directive (County Code, River Basin District, BathingWater type (Lake ( eg. BWL) Coast, Transitional) Waterbody code and a unique 4 digit number.

Metadata

File identifier
e290089b-a1d1-46e4-ae3f-5be1e30188fc XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-05-12T11:50:19Z
Metadata standard name

ISDI Metadata Profile
Metadata standard version

1.2
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Environmental Protection Agency

Data Analyst

gis@epa.ie

Point of contact
 
 

Overviews

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

Environmental Protection Agency

bathing water quality beach beach quality environmental quality freshwater quality splash swimming
GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

bathing freshwater bathing seawater bathing water human health water
GemetInspireTheme

Human health and safety


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