Description: Fishery Harbour Centre means any area defined by an Order for the time being in force under section 2 of the Fisheries Harbour Centre Act 1968 (including amendments post 1968) and declared by such order to be a fishery harbour centre. This Act provides for the establishment and operation of these harbours to promote, develop and carry on sea fishing, fish processing, fish related activities and matters connected to the fish industry as well as any other purpose including the provision, improvement and development of leisure or amenity facilities or for facilitating or promoting the social or economic development of the area in which the Fishery Harbour Centre is located.
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Copyright Text: Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine
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Castletownbere, Killybegs, Rossaveal, Howth, Dunmore East, Dingle Fishery Harbour Centres. Fishery Harbour Centre means any area defined by an Order for the time being in force under section 2 of the Fisheries Harbour Centre Act 1968 (including amendments post 1968) and declared by such order to be a fishery harbour centre. This Act provides for the establishment and operation of these harbours to promote, develop and carry on sea fishing, fish processing, fish related activities and matters connected to the fish industry as well as any other purpose including the provision, improvement and development of leisure or amenity facilities or for facilitating or promoting the social or economic development of the area in which the Fishery Harbour Centre is located.
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Copyright Text: Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine
Description: A maritime boundary is a conceptual division of the Earth's water surface areas using physiographic or geopolitical criteria. As such, it usually includes areas of exclusive national rights over mineral and biological resources, encompassing maritime features, limits and zones.
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Copyright Text: UNCLOS, Irish Naval Service (VLIZ)
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Faroe islands Exclusive Economic Zone boundary provided by the Irish Naval Service. An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a sea zone prescribed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea over which a state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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Copyright Text: Marine Regions Flanders Marine Institute
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France Exclusive Economic Zone boundary provided by the Irish Naval Service. An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a sea zone prescribed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea over which a state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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Copyright Text: Marine Regions Flanders Marine Institute
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Iceland Exclusive Economic Zone boundary provided by the Irish Naval Service. An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a sea zone prescribed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea over which a state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
Definition Expression: N/A
Copyright Text: Marine Regions Flanders Marine Institute
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Spain Exclusive Economic Zone boundary provided by the Irish Naval Service. An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a sea zone prescribed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea over which a state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
Definition Expression: N/A
Copyright Text: Marine Regions Flanders Marine Institute
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United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone boundary provided by the Irish Naval Service. An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a sea zone prescribed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea over which a state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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Copyright Text: Marine Regions Flanders Marine Institute
Description: Data downloaded from https://datahub.admiralty.co.uk/portal/apps/sites/#/marine-data-portal/items/ef188fa9bf6a41159b6f6992d5b55264?geometry=-29.757%2C56.597%2C-0.116%2C60.599 on 14/04/2021.Metadata link:https://datahub.admiralty.co.uk/portal/sharing/rest/content/items/ef188fa9bf6a41159b6f6992d5b55264/info/metadata/metadata.xml?format=default&output=html
Description: A maritime boundary is a conceptual division of the Earth's water surface areas using physiographic or geopolitical criteria. As such, it usually includes areas of exclusive national rights over mineral and biological resources, encompassing maritime features, limits and zones.
Description: <metadata>https://data.gov.ie/dataset/coast-osi-national-250k-map-of-ireland</metadata>
<keywords>science, geography, hydrography</keywords>
The vertical datum for the shoreline should be mean sea high water in tidal maritime zone or normal water.
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Copyright Text: Ordnance Survey Ireland 1:250,000 National Mapping
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The Irish Internal Waters marine boundary represents the internal bays, estuaries and coastal waters around the Irish coastline. This zone represents the designated Water Framework Directive Coastal and Transitional Water Bodies. The Irish government own exclusive sovereign rights to the marine resource in this zone.
Please note this is an <b>indicative layer only</b> as no legally defined boundary for the Internal Waters as yet been published under Irish legislation.
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A baseline is the line from which the seaward limits of a State's territorial sea and certain other maritime zones of jurisdiction are measured. The Baseline Survey project undertaken by the Ordnance Survey Ireland produced the Straight Baselines established by joining the appropriate points surveyed. In Irish localities where the coastline is deeply indented and cut into, or if there is a fringe of islands along the coast in its immediate vicinity, the method of straight baselines joining appropriate points is employed in drawing the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.
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The exclusive economic zone of the State is the area beyond and adjacent to the territorial seas subject to the specific legal regime established in Part V of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) the continental shelf is that part of the seabed over which a coastal State exercises sovereign rights with regard to the exploration and exploitation of natural resources including oil and gas deposits as well as other minerals and biological resources of the seabed.
Description: Marine Regions is an integration of the VLIMAR Gazetteer and the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. The VLIMAR Gazetteer is a database with geographic, mainly marine names such as seas, ecosystem regions and ecoregions.
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Copyright Text: VLIZ (FLanders Marine Institute, Belgium)
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Data represents the boundaries of the major oceans and seas of the world. The source for the boundaries is the publication 'Limits of Oceans & Seas, Special Publication No. 23' published by the IHO in 1953.
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Copyright Text: International Hydrographic Organization, VLIZ
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<keywords>science, geography, biogeography hydrography, ecology</keywords>
Data represents the Large Marine Ecosystems of the world. It was composed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Description: <metadata>http://www.isde.ie/#/7602f845-9942-4dd4-8b04-bdc48181954a</metadata>
<keywords>science, geography, biogeography hydrography, ecology</keywords>
MEOW is a biogeographic classification of the world's coasts and shelves. It is the first ever comprehensive marine classification system with clearly defined boundaries and definitions and was developed to closely link to existing regional systems. The ecoregions nest within the broader biogeographic tiers of Realms and Provinces. MEOW represents broad-scale patterns of species and communities in the ocean, and was designed as a tool for planning conservation across a range of scales and assessing conservation efforts and gaps worldwide.
Description: Political boundaries are the limiting lines of jurisdictional authority for the various levels of government for reporting population statistics, local governance and historical regional definition.
Description: <metadata>https://data.gov.ie/dataset/townlands-osi-national-statutory-boundaries</metadata>
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A townland (Irish: baile fearainn) 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, or later creations of the Ordnance Survey. In Ireland, a townland is (generally) the smallest administrative division of land, though a few large townlands are further divided into hundreds.Whilst the concept of townlands is based on the Gaelic system of land division, it was in the 1600s that they became mapped and defined by the English administration for the purpose of confiscating land and portioning it out to English investors or grants to English planters.[9] The first official evidence of the existence of this Gaelic land division system can be found in church records from before the 12th century.
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18,488 census small area administrative boundaries used by the Central Statistics Office to report on the census of population. Small Areas were designed as the lowest level of geography for the compilation of statistics in line with data protection and generally comprise either complete or part of townlands or neighbourhoods. There is a constraint on Small Areas that they must nest within Electoral Division boundaries.
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Copyright Text: NIRSA, Central Statistics Office, Ordnance Survey Ireland
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There are 3,440 Electoral Divisions (EDs) which are the smallest legally defined administrative areas in the State. One ED, St. Mary's, straddles the Louth-Meath county border, and is presented in two parts in the SAPS tables, with one part in Louth and the other in Meath. There are 32 EDs with low population, which for reasons of confidentiality have been amalgamated into neighbouring EDs giving a total of 3,409 EDs which appear in the SAPS tables.
The graphic file contains the boundaries for 3,409 EDs. The boundaries have been smoothed in accordance with our licencing agreement with OSi Ireland. These boundaries are for general information only and any individual or organisation downloading them are required to acknowledge the terms and conditions under which they are made available.
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Copyright Text: Central Statistics Office, Ordnance Survey Ireland
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In census reports the country is divided into 29 counties/administrative counties and the five Cities which represent the local authority areas. Outside Dublin there are 26 administrative counties (North Tipperary and South Tipperary each ranks as a separate county for administrative purposes) and four Cities, i.e. Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Galway. In Dublin the four local authority areas are identified separately, i.e. Dublin City and the three administrative counties of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin.
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Ireland has historically been divided into four provinces: Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster. The provinces of Ireland serve no administrative or political purposes, but function as historical and cultural entities.