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EnvironmentA townland is a small geographical division of land used in Ireland. The townland system is of Gaelic origin, pre-dating the Norman invasion, and most have names of Irish Gaelic origin. However, some townland names and boundaries come from Norman manors, plantation divisions,...
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EnvironmentCentral Statistics Office administrative unit created for population statistics for census profiling. There are 3409 boundary features defined as a Electoral Division. Metadata attributes follow the INSPIRE schema for Administrative units.
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EnvironmentIreland has historically been divided into four provinces: Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster. The Irish word for this territorial division, cúige, literally meaning "fifth part", indicates that there were once five; the fifth province, Meath, was incorporated into...
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EnvironmentThe current system of Local Government in the Republic of Ireland comprises of 31 Local Authorities. Local Government and the right of local self-government is a cornerstone of any modern democracy. Irish Local Authorities are the closest and most accessible form of Government...
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EnvironmentCentral Statistics Office administrative unit created for population statistics at a local level. Census small areas are a sub-division of the Electoral Division administrative unit. Census Small Area (CSA) generally cover 65-90 households. There are 18488 boundary features...
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EnvironmentProduced by the OSi, this displays the coordinates of the coastal shoreline of Ireland. The vertical datum for the shoreline should be mean sea high water in tidal maritime zone or normal water.
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EnvironmentOrdnance Survey Ireland 1:250,000 scale shoreline polyline layer for Ireland used in Irelands Marine Atlas. The vertical datum for the shoreline should be mean sea high water in tidal maritime zone or normal water. Ordnance Survey Ireland
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This multidisciplinary survey was conducted by Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Explorer, as part of the programme Cetaceans on the Frontier. ‘Cetaceans on the Frontier’ has become an annual research cruise, lead jointly by...
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The training programme takes the original UNESCO IOC concept of Training through Research and adds additional elements that will enable students to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence necessary to participate in, and act as chief scientits on vessels within their own...
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Nephrops Underwater TV Survey FU22 The "Smalls" North East Atlantic Ocean 2006 - PresentMarine InstituteEnvironmentNephrops norvegicus are common around the Irish coast, occurring in geographically distinct sandy or muddy areas where the sediment is suitable for construction of their burrow dwellings. The Marine Institute carries out Underwater TV surveys annually of commercially important...
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CoCliME (Co-development of Climate Services for adaptation to changing Marine Ecosystems) Harmful...Marine InstituteEnvironmentThis 9 year dataset contains data on maximum cell abundance of harmful taxa per week in each location, namely, Dinophysis acuta, Dinophysis acuminata, total Dinophysis spp., “Pseudo-nitzschia delicatissima” complex, “Pseudo-nitzschia seriata” complex, total Pseudo-nitzschia...
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CoCliME (Co-development of Climate Services for adaptation to changing Marine Ecosystems) Harmful...Marine InstituteEnvironmentThis 20 year dataset contains data on cell abundance of harmful taxa, namely, Dinophysis acuta, Dinophysis acuminata, total Dinophysis spp., “Pseudo-nitzschia delicatissima” complex, “Pseudo-nitzschia seriata” complex, total Pseudo-nitzschia spp., Karenia mikimotoi and total...
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EnvironmentThe dataset was created by Land Use Consultants (LUC) and is based on The Royal Irish Academy Irish Historic Towns Atlas (https://www.ria.ie/sites/default/files/origins_of_towns_0.pdf). The Historic Towns Atlas displays towns of over 3000 inhabitants and urban district towns...
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Daily counts of seaward migration of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), trout (Salmo trutta) and Eur...Marine InstituteEnvironmentThe Burrishoole traps (on the Salmon leap and the Mill race) in Co. Mayo Ireland, capture every fish that migrates from the freshwater portion of the Burrishoole catchment to the sea, and are situated between Lough Feeagh and Lough Furnace. The traps are emptied every day, and...
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""Grab samples collected in Tolka Estuary as part of the Water Framework Directive Benthic monitoring programme. For each grab sample collected this dataset contains: - lists and abundance of benthic species >1mm, -sediment particle size analysis...
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South Rockall Trough Sub-surface Mooring Pilot Deployment (October 2018 - May 2019) - CTD Data (Raw)Marine InstituteEnvironmentThis dataset contains raw water temperature, conductivity (derived salinity) and pressure data from CTD instruments from a pilot deep water mooring deployed at a site (15.52 degrees West, 52.999 degrees North) in the South Rockall Trough close to the M6 met-ocean buoy. The...
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National Monitoring Programme for Phytoplankton Species occurrence in Aquaculture Production AreasMarine InstituteEnvironmentThe Phytoplankton National Monitoring Programme for the identification and enumeration of phytoplanktonic species is an important measurement in the detection of those species which may form a Harmful Algal Bloom event. Where favourable environmental conditions occur, some...
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CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth) measures temperature, salinity, turbidity and flourescence in the water column. Sea temperature is a measurement of the temperature of the water column as the SBE instrument samples to various depths. Salinity is a measure of the salt...
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Census and fecundity data from the captive and wild-bred Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) populat...Marine InstituteEnvironmentThe Marine Institute (formerly the Salmon Research Agency of Ireland and the Salmon Research Trust) operate permanent complete fish traps in the Burrishoole catchment, Co. Mayo, Ireland, as part of a program of long term ecological research (LTER). Data has been collected...
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EnvironmentThe term bathymetry refers to the ocean's depth relative to sea level, it can also be used to describe submarine topography or underwater terrain. INFOMAR bathymetry data is measured primarily by multibeam (MBES) and also singlebeam(SBES) echosounder devices. MBES transducers...
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