INSPIRE Geoportal
Special Areas of Conservation
These are prime wildlife conservation areas in the country, considered to be important on a European as well as Irish level. Most Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) are in the countryside, although a few sites reach into town or city landscapes, such as Dublin Bay and Cork Harbour. Detailed conservation objectives are available for some SACs and as additional ones are approved they will be posted on the NPWS website (www.npws.ie). The legal basis on which SACs are selected and designated is the EU Habitats Directive, transposed into Irish law in the as amended in 1998 and 2005. The Directive lists certain habitats and species that must be protected within SACs.
Simple
- Alternate title
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special-areas-of-conservation
- Date (Publication)
- 2019-08-03
- Citation identifier
- DHLGH / PS.IE.DHLGH.SpecialAreasConservation
- Citation identifier
- DHLGH / PS.ProtectedSite
- Purpose
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To publish the Special Area of Conservation (SAC) 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
npws_gis@chg.gov.ie gis@chg.gov npws_gis@chg.gov.ie
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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nature conservation
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land conservation
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- Theme
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SAC
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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
npws_gis@chg.gov.ie gis@chg.gov npws_gis@chg.gov.ie
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
npws_gis@chg.gov.ie gis@chg.gov npws_gis@chg.gov.ie
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
- {4F8C122E-61C7-4821-A10B-E30D5B18BFD8} 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
npws_gis@chg.gov.ie gis@chg.gov npws_gis@chg.gov.ie
Point of contact
Overviews
Spatial extent
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