Alternate title

Strategic Noise Mapping of Agglomeration Industry Round 4 2022 Lnight

Date (Revision)

2023-09-08T00:00:00

Date (Creation)

2023-09-08T00:00:00

Date (Publication)

2023-09-08T00:00:00

Citation identifier

HH.IE.EPA.NOISE_Rd4_Industry_Agg_Night

Purpose

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

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

• noise measurement

• noise exposure plan

• noise type

• noise legislation

• noise level

• noise monitoring

Environmental Protection Agency

• noise legislation

• noise contours

• noise decibels

• noise action plan

• industry

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

Begin date

2012-01-14T00:00:00

End date

2015-04-17T00:00:00

Reference system identifier

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

EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset 2009-11-25

Distribution format

Name	Version
ESRI Shapefile	10.x

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency	Noise Manager	info@epa.ie	Publisher

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://gis.epa.ie/GetData/Download	Download Data
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://gis.epa.ie/EPAMaps/EnvironmentAndWellbeing	View Data
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://www.epa.ie/our-services/monitoring--assessment/noise/	More Information About Data
OGC:WFS	https://gis.epa.ie/geoserver/EPA/ows?service=WFS&version=1.0.0&request=GetFeature&typeName=EPA%3ANoise%20Round%204%20Industry%20Agglomerations%20-%20Lnight&maxFeatures=50&outputFormat=application%2Fjson	GeoJSON
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/367	Reporting Obligations: Extents of noise mapping
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/369	Reporting Obligations: Strategic noise mapping
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://reportnet.europa.eu/public/dataflow/592	Downloading of Reports: DF1_5 Extents
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://reportnet.europa.eu/public/dataflow/870	Downloading of Reports: DF4_8 Agglomerations

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

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

f81b5ee8-bc4f-4637-a776-1009c7b67d1a XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2023-10-12T15:46:04.637Z

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@edenireland.ie	Point of contact