High Value Dataset - National Land Cover 2018

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.