Special Protection Areas

The EU Birds Directive (79/409/EEC) requires designation of SPAs for: listed rare and vulnerable species; regularly occurring migratory species, such as ducks, geese and waders; wetlands, especially those of international importance, which attract large numbers of migratory birds each year. (Internationally important means that 1% of the population of a species uses the site, or more than 20,000 birds regularly use the site.)

This is a national dataset.

 
Citation proposal
(2021) . Special Protection Areas. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/4f748046-6513-4a78-b5ca-39e2e5a8629f

Simple

Alternate title
SPA
Date ( Publication )
2021-10-27T00:00:00
Identifier
https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ / special-protection-areas
Purpose
To report on and manage Special Protection Area designations within the Republic of Ireland.
Status
On going

  Point of contact

  0 
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Protected sites
GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1 ( Theme )
  • protection of birds, wildlife protection, biodiversity,habitat, ecology, bird, bird species
National Parks and Wildlife Service ( Theme )
  • Special Protection Area, SPA, National Parks and Wildlife Service, biodiversity, birds habitat protection, heritage, National Biodiversity Plan
ISO 3166 ( Place )
  • Ireland
Use limitation
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Copyright Government of Ireland. This dataset was created by National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. This copyright material is licensed for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
10560
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Biota
N
S
E
W


Vertical extent

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
1014

Vertical CS

No information provided.

Vertical datum

Supplemental Information
Reference system identifier
EPSG / http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/2157

 

Alternate title
EPSG
Date ( Publication )
2009-11-25

Distribution format
  • Esri shapefile (v10.x )

  Point of contact

  0 
OnLine resource
Zip file containing shapefile download  

Download SHP

OnLine resource
NPWS Protected Sites Map Viewer  

View map

OnLine resource
WMS GetCapabilities operation  

WMS GetCapabilities

OnLine resource
esri rest api  

esri rest

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Alternate title
INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.2
Date ( Publication )
2014-04-17
Explanation
The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.
Pass
false

Conformance result

Alternate title
INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation
Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation
Level of conformance with the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Pass
false
Statement
This spatial dataset and associated web services is currently presented in Irish Transverse Mercator projection. 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 in Irish Transverse Mercator. The spatial dataset and associated web services contain two feature level metadata fields: SOURCE_SCALE AND SOURCE_CRS to identify the source scale and projection that the site boundary feature is derived from.

Metadata

File identifier
4f748046-6513-4a78-b5ca-39e2e5a8629f   XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2021-10-28T10:15:04
Metadata standard name
ISDI Metadata Profile
Metadata standard version
1.2

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