Alternate title

INSPIRE Strategic Noise Mapping of Noise Agglomerations 2015

Date (Creation)

2018-10-08

Date (Revision)

2023-11-09

Date (Publication)

2018-10-08

Citation identifier

EPA / AM.IE.EPA.NOISE_Agglomerations

Citation identifier

EPA / AM.NoiseRestrictionZone

Purpose

This dataset represents the third round of noise mapping with the aim of evaluating the size of population affected by environmental noise issues in the agglomeration 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@edenireland.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 (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

• agglomerations

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@edenireland.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

Report on all major roads, railways, airports and agglomerations (DF1 and DF5) http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/367

Eionet Central Data Repository http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/ie/eu/noise/df5/2015/envxejiaw

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

The Environmental Noise Regulations 2006 was transposed as EU 2002/49/EC in full. Environmental Noise is defined as unwanted or harmful outdoor sound created by human activities including Road, Rail, Air Traffic and Industry.

Dublin and Cork fell under the mapping threshold for agglomerations as set out in the regulations; cities in excess of 250,000 inhabitants. All roads, rail and industrial point sources within Dublin and Cork Agglomerations were mapped.

The decibel bands were set out in the regulations. The bands where then used along with census data to calculate the number of people exposed to noise within the different decibel levels. This data was then used to assist in creating Action Plans by the Action Planning Authorities.

Metadata

File identifier

e7cb4974-0438-4d7b-a384-152cceaec44d 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@edenireland.ie	Point of contact