IRELAND · DESIGNATIONS · STATUTORY
Nature Reserve (Ireland)
What this layer shows
Statutory Nature Reserves under the Wildlife Acts, shown as markers at each reserve. Department dataset last revised 2016: reserves change rarely, but verify against the S.I. for legal work.
Publisher and licence
NPWS / Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
© NPWS / Government of Ireland, CC BY 4.0
Where the data comes from
ARCGIS · services3.arcgis.com
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Facts shown for each feature
County · Area (ha) · Ownership · Legal ref
In these presets
Desk study
The designations an Irish ecologist checks first: SACs and SPAs (the sites behind Appropriate Assessment screening), Natural Heritage Areas and proposed NHAs, Ramsar sites, statutory Nature Reserves and Refuges for Fauna, National Parks, and ancient & long-established woodland. The opening move of an EcIA or AA screening: what is protected on or near the site.
Coastal & wetland
The Irish coast and its wetlands: coastal lagoons (a priority Annex I habitat), Ramsar sites, and the SPAs and SACs that sit over almost every estuary: with statutory Nature Reserves, which in Ireland are so often coastal. The set for intertidal, estuary and wetland bird work.
Visiting
Waymarked trails, monuments worth a journey and clean water to swim in.