Railway routes used for regular transportation of goods and passengers. Railway yards, siding railways are allowed if they are landmarks and are classified as branch lines. They are usually generalized (not all the tracks have to be portrayed). Specific lines reaching harbour or industrial zone can be portrayed and are also classified as branch lines. The length selection is min. 1600 meters. Metro lines (= underground urban railways), tramlines or streetcar lines inside city areas are excluded. Railways are portrayed by one line regardless the number of tracks.This dataset is provided by Tailte Éireann

This dataset will allow users to explore the historical rail lines across the island of Ireland. The map will display all passenger and freight lines on the island of Ireland, including opening and closing dates; all stations which were open for public use during the almost 190 years of Ireland’s rail history, including years of operation; major structures on the rail network, including significant bridges and viaducts. It was developed by students from Atlantic University’s BA in Heritage Programme, under the direction of Lecturer Gary Dempsey, with the support of Iarnród Éireann, and the generous assistance of Stephen Johnson and his ‘Atlas and Gazetteer of the Railways of Ireland’ from 1997. It was also collated from the National Archive of Architectural Heritage. To map the historical rail lines across the island of Ireland, recording the opening and closure dates of certain lines, the company names, station, spur and other infrastructure locations and to provide a platform for the collection of enriched data relating to these historic rail settings.Link: https://www.atu.ie/irish-rail-and-heritage-maps

A point where a railway crosses a road at the same level. The level crossing will be associated both to the road and railway network.This dataset is provided by Tailte Éireann

A point where a railway crosses a road at the same level. The level crossing will be associated both to the road and railway network.

All the stations and stopping places used for passenger traffic and/or freight traffic.

This is a polygon dataset of the strategic noise mapping of agglomeration railways for Round 4 (2022), representing the situation during 2021, in the form of noise contours for the Lden (day, evening, night) period for Cork, Dublin and Limerick noise agglomerations. The dB value represents the annual average Lden indicator value in decibels over 24 hours. The strategic noise mapping of agglomeration railways includes all Luas light rail and heavy rail sections within the three noise agglomeraiton areas. The values are calculated at a height of 4.0m above local terrain, not measured, and should be treated with caution when looking at specific locations. The strategic noise mapping of agglomeration railways was undertaken by Noise Consultants Limited inside the three noise agglomerations, under contract to the agglomeration local authorities, with support from Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) and Irish Rail. The outputs of the Round 4 noise mapping exercise were generated using a new common noise assessment method for Europe (CNOSSOS-EU), as set out in the revised Annex II of Directive 2002/49/EC, and they are not directly comparable to any strategic noise maps previously generated under Rounds 1 to 3, as these revised methods calculate noise emissions, propagation and residential population exposure differently from the methods used in previous rounds. The noise maps are the product of assimilating a collection of digital datasets, and over the last 15 years there have been ongoing significant improvements to the quality of the digital datasets describing the natural and built environment in Ireland, therefore the Round 4 strategic noise mapping includes changes to the model input datasets being used, compared to previous rounds, particularly related to the railway network modelled, the terrain model, building heights, train flows and ground cover. The strategic noise maps should not be relied upon in the context of planning applications for noise sensitive developments in the vicinity of the mapped sources. .hidden { display: none }

A point where a railway crosses a road at the same level. The level crossing will be associated both to the road and railway network.This dataset is provided by Tailte Éireann

This is a polygon dataset of the strategic noise mapping of major railways for Round 4 (2022), representing the situation during 2021, in the form of noise contours for the Lnight period for Cork, Dublin and Limerick noise agglomerations and the major railways outside of the noise agglomerations. Major railways were identified by Irish Rail and Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) as those railways exceeding the flow threshold of 30,000 train passages per year during 2021. The dB value represents the annual average Lnight indicator value in decibels over the night time.
The values are calculated at a height of 4.0m above local terrain, not measured, and should be treated with caution when looking at specific locations. The strategic noise mapping of the major railways was undertaken by Noise Consultants Limited inside the three noise agglomerations, under contract to the agglomeration local authorities, and outside the agglomeraitons by the Transport Infrastructue Ireland (TII), with the support of Irish Rail. The outputs of the Round 4 noise mapping exercise were generated using a new common noise assessment method for Europe (CNOSSOS-EU), as set out in the revised Annex II of Directive 2002/49/EC, and they are not directly comparable to any strategic noise maps previously generated under Rounds 1 to 3, as these revised methods calculate noise emissions, propagation and residential population exposure differently from the methods used in previous rounds.
The noise maps are the product of assimilating a collection of digital datasets, and over the last 15 years there have been ongoing significant improvements to the quality of the digital datasets describing the natural and built environment in Ireland, therefore the Round 4 strategic noise mapping includes changes to the model input datasets being used, compared to previous rounds, particularly related to the railway network modelled, the terrain model, building heights, train flows and ground cover. The strategic noise maps should not be relied upon in the context of planning applications for noise sensitive developments in the vicinity of the mapped sources.

This is a polygon dataset of the strategic noise mapping of major railways for Round 4 (2022), representing the situation during 2021, in the form of noise contours for the Lnight period for Cork, Dublin and Limerick noise agglomerations and the major railways outside of the noise agglomerations. Major railways were identified by Irish Rail and Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) as those railways exceeding the flow threshold of 30,000 train passages per year during 2021. The dB value represents the annual average Lnight indicator value in decibels over the night time. The values are calculated at a height of 4.0m above local terrain, not measured, and should be treated with caution when looking at specific locations. The strategic noise mapping of the major railways was undertaken by Noise Consultants Limited inside the three noise agglomerations, under contract to the agglomeration local authorities, and outside the agglomeraitons by the Transport Infrastructue Ireland (TII), with the support of Irish Rail. The outputs of the Round 4 noise mapping exercise were generated using a new common noise assessment method for Europe (CNOSSOS-EU), as set out in the revised Annex II of Directive 2002/49/EC, and they are not directly comparable to any strategic noise maps previously generated under Rounds 1 to 3, as these revised methods calculate noise emissions, propagation and residential population exposure differently from the methods used in previous rounds. The noise maps are the product of assimilating a collection of digital datasets, and over the last 15 years there have been ongoing significant improvements to the quality of the digital datasets describing the natural and built environment in Ireland, therefore the Round 4 strategic noise mapping includes changes to the model input datasets being used, compared to previous rounds, particularly related to the railway network modelled, the terrain model, building heights, train flows and ground cover. The strategic noise maps should not be relied upon in the context of planning applications for noise sensitive developments in the vicinity of the mapped sources.

This is a polygon dataset of the strategic noise mapping of rail, which were identified as those rail exceeding the flow threshold of 30,000 vehicle passages per year, in the form of noise contours for the Lden (day, evening, night) period for Dublin and Cork agglomerations and the major roads outside of the agglomerations. The dB value represents the average decibel value during the Lden time.

Any direct comparison of the Round 3 versus Round 2 results should be carefully considered, as changes to the model input datasets used between these rounds may be significant. This may especially apply to the terrain model used, while there may be improved building height data, & improved traffic flow data with fewer assumed flows. There may also be some revisions to the actual road network modelled in Round 3.

The noise maps are the product of assimilating a collection of digital datasets, and over the last 10 years there has been significant improvements to the quality of the digital datasets describing the natural and built environment in Ireland. This has led to the strategic noise models giving much more reliable noise results with much less tendency to over predict the impact.

Dataset Name: END Noise Data Round 3 - 2017Data Owner: DAERAContact: Air and Environmental Quality Unit amy.holmes@daera-ni.gov.ukSource URL: https://gis.daera-ni.gov.uk/arcgis/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=0bf4f42018224494b071b5dcd0ce4e56Uploaded to SPACE Hub: 12/06/23Update Frequency: Every 5 yearsScale Threshold: N/AProjection : Irish GridFormat: Esri Feature Layer (Hosted) Vector PolygonNotes: This data is a product of the strategic noise mapping analysis undertaken by DAERA Northern Ireland in 2017 to meet the requirements of the EU Environmental Noise Directive (Directive 2002/49/EC) and Environmental Noise Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006. NOISE SOURCES AGGLOMERATION ROAD (agg-road) Data indicating the level of noise according to the strategic noise mapping of major road sources within areas with a population of at least 100,000 people (Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area agglomeration).AGGLOMERATION RAIL (agg_rail) Data indicating the level of noise according to the strategic noise mapping of major rail sources withinINDUSTRY (agg_ind) Data indicating the level of noise according to the strategic noise mapping of all Part A industrial activities as defined in Schedule 1 of the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (as amended) and all ports within the Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area (BMUA) agglomeration.AGGLOMERATION AIRPORT (BCA) Data indicating the level of noise according to the strategic noise mapping of airport sources within areas with a population of at least 100,000 people (Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area agglomeration). In Northern Ireland, the agglomeration airport is George Best Belfast City Airport. CONSOLIDATED (con) Data indicating the level of noise according to the strategic noise mapping of all noise sources within the Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area (BMUA) agglomeration.MAJOR AIRPORT (BIA) Data indicating the level of noise according to the strategic noise mapping of airport sources with more than 50,000 air traffic movements per year. In Northern Ireland, the major airport is Belfast International Airport (BIA).MAJOR RAIL (mrail) Data indicating the level of noise according to the strategic noise mapping along NI Translink routes with more than 30,000 train passages per year.MAJOR ROAD (mroad) Data indicating the level of noise according to the strategic noise mapping along major traffic routes with more than 3,000,000 vehicle passages per year. NOISE INDICATORS Lden (lden) The LAeq over the period 0000-2400, but with the evening values (1900-2300) weighted by the addition of 5 dB(A), and the night values (2300-0700) weighted by the addition of 10dB(A) Lday (lday) The LAeq over the period 0700-1900, local time (for strategic noise mapping this is an annual average)Levening (leve) The LAeq over the period 1900-2300, local time (for strategic noise mapping this is an annual average)Lnight (lngt) The LAeq over the period 2300-0700, local time (for strategic noise mapping this is an annual average)LAeq,6h (l6h) The LAeq over the period 2400-0600, local time (for strategic noise mapping this is an annual average)LAeq,16h (l16h) The LAeq over the period 0700-2300, local time (for strategic noise mapping this is an annual average)LAeq,18h (l18h) The LAeq over the period 0600-2400, local time (for strategic noise mapping this is an annual average) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For informations on the noise data and modelling methods used, please refer to the DAERA Northern Ireland website:https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/services/noise-mapsContact details:Amy Holmes (amy.holmes@daera-ni.gov.uk)Air and Environmental Quality Unit - Regulatory and Natural Resources Policy DivisionDepartment of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA NI)