Alternate title

Aquifers in Ireland

Date (Creation)

2003-01-21

Date (Revision)

2019-11-12

Date (Publication)

2004-06-01

Citation identifier

GSI / GE.IE.GSI.HydrogeologicalMapIreland

Citation identifier

GSI / GE.Aquifer

Purpose

Provide access to Irish INSPIRE harmonised Hydrogeological data

Status

Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Geological Survey Ireland		support@geodata.gov support@geodata.gov.ie	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

Spatial scope

• National

U.S. Geological Survey Thesaurus 1.0

• sciences

• earth sciences

• geology

• hydrogeology

• natural resources

• water resources

• groundwater

• groundwater level

INSPIRE Aquifer Type

• confined artesian

• confined subartesian

• unconfined

INSPIRE Aquifer Media Type

• compound

• fractured

• karstic

• karstic and fractured

• other

• porous

• porous and fractured

GCMD Data Center Keywords 8.6

• IE/GSI

GeoNames Geographical Database

• Ireland

National Geographic Society Glossary

• hydrosphere

General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.3

• science

• natural science

• earth science

• geology

• hydrogeology

Specific usage

Geology INSPIRE

User contact info

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Geological Survey Ireland		support@geodata.gov support@geodata.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

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/ ]

Under the CC-BY Licence, users must acknowledge the source of the Information in their product or application. Please use this specific attribution statement:

"Contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence".

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

100000

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Geoscientific information
• Environment

Supplemental Information

More Information About Data https://www.gsi.ie/en-ie/programmes-and-projects/groundwater/activities/understanding-ireland-groundwater/Pages/default.aspx

EuroGeoSurveys European Geological Data Infrastructure (EGDI) Map Viewer http://www.europe-geology.eu/map-viewer/

Download Data files (not INSPIRE compliant) https://www.gsi.ie/en-ie/data-and-maps/Pages/Groundwater.aspx#Aquifers

View Data (not INSPIRE compliant) https://dcenr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=7e8a202301594687ab14629a10b748ef

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
Geological Survey Ireland		support@geodata.gov support@geodata.gov.ie	Point of contact

OnLine resource

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

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

Followed D2.8.II.4 Data Specification on Geology - Technical Guidelines

Metadata

File identifier

INSPIRE_GE_Hydrogeological_Map_Ireland XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2021-06-29T00:00:00

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
Geological Survey Ireland		support@geodata.gov support@geodata.gov.ie	Point of contact