Alternate title

INSPIRE Strategic Noise Mapping of Major Industry 2022

Date (Creation)

2022-12-31

Date (Revision)

2024-05-27

Date (Publication)

2024-05-27

Citation identifier

EPA / AM.IE.EPA.NOISE_Industry

Citation identifier

EPA / AM.NoiseRestrictionZone

Purpose

This dataset represents the first round of noise mapping with the aim of evaluating the size of population affected by environmental noise issues along the major industries in Ireland and to assist in the development a Noise Action Plan.

Status

Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@epa.ie	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

INSPIRE priority data set

• Agglomerations - industrial noise exposure delineation (Noise Directive)

Spatial scope

• National

General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.3

• 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

Place

• Ireland

Specific usage

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units INSPIRE

User contact info

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@epa.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

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

50000

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Environment
• Health

Supplemental Information

Reporting obligation for: Strategic noise maps (DF 4 and DF 8) http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/369

Eionet Central Data Repository http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/ie/eu/noise/df8/envummpda

More Information About Data http://www.epa.ie/monitoringassessment/noisemapping/

Download Data files https://gis.epa.ie/GetData/Download

View Data https://gis.epa.ie/EPAMaps/EnvironmentAndWellbeing

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:29902 (TM65 / Irish Grid))

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:4258 (ETRS89 geographical coordinates)

Distribution format

Name	Version
gml+xml	3.2

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		info@epa.ie	Point of contact

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC Web Map Service	https://www.inspire.housing.gov.ie/geoserver/inspire_epa/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities	DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE View Service WMS
ATOM Syndication Format	https://epa-inspire-atom.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files/atomEPA_INSPIRE_Ireland.xml	DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE Download Service ATOM

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 value in decibels over 24 hours.

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

IE2c3d1c7e-6724-4564-a515-cac292d26718 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2024-09-20T00:00:00

Metadata standard name

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) Nº 1205/2008 of INSPIRE Directive

Metadata standard version

TG 2.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@epa.ie	Point of contact