Feb 2026
National Land Cover Map
A National Land Cover service for the Republic of Ireland indicating whatever is physically present on the Earth’s surface, whether this is natural vegetation, freshwater or non-living surfaces. The land cover of the Republic of Ireland is incredibly diverse, including forestry, peat bogs, grassland, sand dunes, mud flats, salt marsh, bracken, hedgerows and more, as well as man-made structures and cultivated fields. All of these different types of land cover have been categorised into 36 land classifications and mapped in detail.
The information in this service is based on Series 2 imagery collected circa 2018, for full details on how the data was collated see our National Land Cover storymap. The National Land Cover Map Legend can be seen and downloaded here. The National Land Cover Map of Ireland final report can be seen and downloaded here.The National Land Cover Dataset was produced by Tailte Éireann, in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and with the support of members of the cross-governmental national land cover and habitat mapping (NLCHM) working group.Note: the MapGenie National Land Cover 2018 (ITM) service is restricted by default to a maximum scale of 1:10,000. This can be adjusted independently by individual users once the service has been registered in the users own ArcGIS Online account or Esri Developer account. There is no default restriction on the minimum scale threshold.
20250122 – AIE Request – Coillte Storm Damage Map Data
Coillte windblow damage GIS data is now available on Coillte public map viewer under the following link Public Web Viewer, layer: Coillte Wind Damage Assessment.
Electricity Network Resilience & Forestry Briefing (21st Aug 2025)
AIE: Hen Harrier SPAs (KY03-FL0210 and KY03-FL0211, Clearfell licences)
Forestry Sectoral Action Work Plan – Forestry Division | Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (May 2025)
The Sectoral Action Work Plans (SAWP) are national scale plans, which provide for the tracking of the actions assigned to
the sectors in the Water Action Plan 2024 (WAP).
The objective of the SAWP is to ensure that the sector over time will no longer be a significant pressure on water status and will include information on how the sector will address all waterbodies at risk from that pressure, in line with the WFD objectives.
National Woodcock survey data
Note: implications for felling during the period of breeding and rearing.
This data contains the data and code required to replicate analyses for a two-step species distribution modelling approach to estimate the distribution and abundance of breeding Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) across the Republic of Ireland
AIE request to Coillte seeking a map (in GIS format) of the Harvest Units across the Coillte Estate
AIE – DAFM plans and considerations in respect of the impacts on Forestry Legislation, Standards & Procedures in response to the Judgement of the CJEU in Case C784-23 (Birds Directive)
AIE-26-022 Decision letter, schedule and records
