River Basins

Name: River Basins
Creator: data.gov.ie

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This dataset delineates the river basins of the Republic of Ireland, published via the national open-data portal data.gov.ie. It was created to fulfil the requirements of Article 3 of the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC), which requires member states to identify river basins and assign them to river basin districts for water management purposes. The dataset provides a national-scale geographic breakdown of hydrological units and can be used to support water resource planning, environmental monitoring, and reporting obligations related to EU water policy.River Basins of the Republic of Ireland, created for Article 3 Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC).

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Data access

CKAN dataset (file distributions)

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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Using the API

Query examples

curl -s 'https://data.gov.ie/dataset/river-basins.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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Dataset

Volume & freshness

Update cadence

Irregular

declared upstream

Last upstream update

2 days ago

2026-09-29

License

No license declared upstream.

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