INSPIRE Geoportal
Special Protection Areas
The EU Birds Directive (79/409/EEC) requires designation of SPAs for: listed rare and vulnerable species; regularly occurring migratory species, such as ducks, geese and waders; wetlands, especially those of international importance, which attract large numbers of migratory birds each year. (Internationally important means that 1% of the population of a species uses the site, or more than 20,000 birds regularly use the site.) This is a national dataset.
Simple
- Alternate title
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special-protection-areas
- Date (Publication)
- 2019-08-03
- Citation identifier
- DHLGH / PS.IE.DHLGH.SpecialProtectionAreas
- Citation identifier
- DHLGH / PS.ProtectedSite
- Purpose
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To publish the Special Protection Area (SPA) layer in the INSPIRE Protected Sites theme for Ireland.
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
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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biodiversity
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habitat
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- Theme
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SPA
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habitat
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biodiversity
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NPWS
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conservation
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- Place
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Ireland
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- Specific usage
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Protected sites INSPIRE
- User contact info
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
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
- Other constraints
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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/ ]
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 10560
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
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- Supplemental Information
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More info at https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites
- 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 Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Point of contact
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC Web Map Service https://www.inspire.housing.gov.ie/geoserver/inspire_dhlgh/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE View Service WMS
ATOM Syndication Format
https://dhlgh-inspire-atom.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files/atomDHLGH_INSPIRE_Ireland.xml DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE Download Service ATOM
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2014-12-31
- Pass
- Yes
Conformance result
- Statement
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This spatial dataset and associated web services is currently presented in EPSG:4258 (ETRS89 geographical coordinates). In order to comply with the INSPIRE Directive, this spatial dataset and associated web services was transformed from Irish Transverse Mercator projection to ETRS89. The majority of site boundaries were originally digitised from Ordnance Survey of Ireland 1:10560 six-inch raster data in Irish Grid. Over time an increasing number of site boundaries in this dataset will be replotted to Ordnance Survey of Ireland 1:5000 vector mapping.
Metadata
- File identifier
- {02BF7275-083C-4B87-911F-7081D2998CCC} XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-07-18T00:00:00
- 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 Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Point of contact
