This is a points dataset of the location of current Waste facilities (including licensed, applied, surrendered, rejected etc.)
In 1996 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began licensing certain activities in the waste sector. These include landfills, transfer stations, hazardous waste disposal and other significant waste disposal and recovery activities.
Further information about each license can be found on the EPA website
https://data.gov.ie/dataset/licensed-waste-facilities/resource/19f6cf42-d231-4ba9-beae-f587f73f80e5
To locate a historic landfill use the following search in EPA database:
https://epawebapp.epa.ie/terminalfour/HLF/index.jsp
Safety concerns mean old landfill sites will continue to cost taxpayers money