INSPIRE Geoportal
Wreck Inventory of Ireland
The Underwater Archaeology Unit (UAU) is engaged in the preparation of an inventory of recorded shipwrecks in Irish waters. The Shipwreck Inventory of Ireland includes all known wrecks for the years up to and including 1945 and approximately 10,000 records have been compiled and integrated into the shipwreck database thus far. The Shipwreck Inventory is principally a desktop survey with information gathered from a broad range of cartographic, archaeological and historical sources, both documentary and pictorial. Wrecks over 100 years old and archaeological objects found underwater are protected under the National Monuments (Amendment) Acts 1987 and 1994. Significant wrecks less than 100 years old can be designated by Underwater Heritage Order on account of their historical, archaeological or artistic importance as is the case with the wreck of the Co. Cork RMS Lusitania located off Kinsale Head. Underwater Heritage Orders can also be used to designate areas of seabed or land covered by water to more clearly define and protect wreck sites and archaeological objects. This dataset is available for reference by contacting the Underwater Archaeology Unit directly.
Simple
- Alternate title
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wreck-inventory-of-ireland
- Date (Revision)
- 2019-08-03
- Date (Publication)
- 2019-08-03
- Citation identifier
- National Monuments Service / PS.IE.WreckInventoryIreland
- Citation identifier
- National Monuments Service / PS.ProtectedSite
- Purpose
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To record the location of shipwrecks identified as part of the Shipwreck Inventory of 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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archaeological site
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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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- Society
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- Supplemental Information
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More info at https://www.archaeology.ie/underwater-archaeology/wreck-viewer
- 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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It is important to note that the Wreck Viewer displays only wrecks for which we have a recorded location and these are represented on the map canvas as red dots. The red dot equates with the known approximate centre point of the wreck and is not indicative of its geographic or spatial extent. Wrecks with known locations account for approximately 22% (update and check) of the total number of records contained in the WIID; there is data held within the WIID on a large number of wrecks for which we have no precise recorded location, co-ordinate or known extent. Of the approximate 18,000 records only 4,000 have precise locations leaving approximately 14,000 wrecks in our database for which a location has yet to be confirmed.
These wrecks are not displayed in the viewer but information on them can be downloaded from the link on the banner/header of the Wreck Viewer. It should also be noted that at present only 20% of wrecks in the database have a summary description, providing information on the original vessel, their history, voyage, cargo, passengers and the story of its loss, where known. Work updating the summary field is continuing and data will be updated on an on-going basis and as new information becomes available.
Metadata
- File identifier
- {284B386D-3A86-4DD1-869A-A685BDE54460} XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-05-27T00:00:00
- 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
