https://www.floodinfo.ie/open-spatial-data-portal
In a number of cases flood related data is not
- open due to commercial sensitivities
- published on data.gov.ie
https://www.floodinfo.ie/open-spatial-data-portal/data-catalogue
Flood related data flagged as Commercially Sensitive Information
Update: (10/2/2025)
By way of clarification and prior to a decision being made on your requests under AIE and Open Data, I attach a spreadsheet with some details on access to these datasets.
The licences and formats have been reviewed and updated in most cases. On review a number of datasets contain identical data to datasets already available and have been removed from the data catalogue. A decision has been made to apply certain other changes, however some work remains to be done to prepare these for publication.
Some datasets have been removed because they are based on licensed datasets from third parties or have been superseded.
Some datasets have been reviewed and a significant amount of verification would be required before these could be relied on.
Regarding the grounds of Commercial Sensitivity, notwithstanding the limitations of the data set out in the disclaimer on Floodinfo, if the data were made available under a commercial license it could be immediately used by insurance companies and banks to restrict or curtail access to financial products and also to classify property and have an impact on the financial interests of individuals and businesses. There organisations are of course free to make their own determinations based on their own data and analysis.
Note: OPW have stated that following AIE/ODD request, a number of the datasets have been removed from the OPW data catalogue. As of 25 Sept 2024 — Open Spatial Data Catalogue. Showing 1 to 10 of 282 entries
Saved OPW Catalogue as at 10/2/25