Register of Protected Areas - Shellfish Areas

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This dataset provides the register of protected shellfish areas in Ireland, delineated as polygons. It originates from the 14 shellfish production areas listed in the Irish Shellfish Regulations (S.I. 200/1994) and was updated in 2009 to incorporate polygons delineated under the European Communities (Quality of Shellfish Waters) (Amendment) Regulations. The dataset supports identification and management of designated shellfish waters for regulatory and water quality purposes across Ireland.These are the shellfish polygons as delineated originally as the 14 shellfish production areas listed in the Irish Shellfish Regulations (S.I. 200 / 1994), and updated in 2009 to include polygons delineated in accordance with European Communities (Quality of Shellfish Waters) (Amendment) Regulati...

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A CKAN-hosted dataset whose resources are file downloads rather than a queryable DataStore, so no column schema could be read automatically. The dataset page lists the downloadable distributions.

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Query examples

curl -s 'https://data.gov.ie/dataset/register-of-protected-areas-shellfish-areas.rdf' -H 'Accept: application/rdf+xml'

DCAT (RDF/XML) record: title, publisher, freshness and every distribution. This portal disallows /api/ in robots.txt, so this is the route to use.

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Last upstream update

2 days ago

2026-09-29

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