Sectoral Mapping

The All-Island Accessibiliy Mapping Tool provides an analysis of access to settlements and key service infrastructure such as transport, education and health facilities.

The mapping tool provides an approximate accessibility score (peak travel time in minutes) from ever Small Area (SA) in the Republic of Ireland and Output Area (OA) in Northern Ireland to a list of key settlements and services. The analysis was carried out using a rasterised road network database (NAVTEQ)for the entire island and has made use of the 'Cost Distance' network anaysis technique witin ESRI ArcGIS.

The mapping tool has been developed by AIRO and ICLRD as part of the Cross-Border Spatial Planning Development and Training Network (CroSPLaN), an EU INTERREG IVA- funded programme administered by the Special EU Programmes Body. Operated in association with the Centre for Cross Border Studies as part of the Ireland-Northern IrelandCross-Border Co-operation Observatory (INICCO), CroSPLaN is a three year programme of research, training and workshops in Northern Ireland and the Southern border countries

 TO ACCESS THE ALL-ISLAND ACCESSIBILITY MAPPING TOOL CLICK HERE

The prototype All-Island Deprivation Index developed through this research used two censuses conducted at two different points in time, 2001 in Northern Ireland and 2006 in the Republic of Ireland. While it is clearly understood that the underlying statistics are unaligned due to the five-year time gap, the authors (Trutz Haase, Jonathan Pratschke and Justin Gleeson) felt that the principal challenges involved in developing an All-Island Deprivation Index would be best explored using these available datasets. This allowed the research team to develop and test a methodology in preparation for the publication the 2011 census in both jurisdictions. Furthermore, in the case of the Republic of Ireland, the 2011 census will feature for the first time the use of the population statistics at the new Small Area geographical scale, similar to the geographical scale of Output Areas in Northern Ireland. This will help to overcome a previous limitation when comparing cross-border data.

The mapping tool provides users with an easy to use platform to analyse the results of the index. Users can click on specific areas of interest and be presented with a detailed summary of the Deprivation Score within that area, how it ranks within the hierarchy of All-Island Deprivation Index scores and, importantly, detail its relative position within its jurisdiction and Local Authority or Local Government District.

The mapping tool has been developed by AIRO and ICLRD as part of the Cross-Border Spatial Planning Development and Training Network (CroSPlaN), an EU INTERREG IVA-funded programme administered by the Special EU Programmes Body. Operated in association with the Centre for Cross Border Studies as part of the Ireland-Northern Ireland Cross-Border Co-operation Observatory (INICCO), CroSPlaN is a three-year programme of research, training and workshops in Northern Ireland and the Southern border counties.

TO ACCESS THE ALL-ISLAND DEPRIVATION INDEX CLICK HERE

This interactive mapping tool allows users to examine data from the 2010 Census of Agriculture released in December 2012 in a dynamic and interactive format. Data with this module has been sourced from the Census of Agriculture and the full report is available here.

The toolkit has two geographies available for NUTS III Regions and Counties. Data within the module is categorised by Farm Size, Utilisation of Agricultural Land and Livestock. The mapping module allows users to compare county and regional level data to national averages.

To view the mapping module choose Census of Agriculture 2010 from the dropdown menu below and click view. Data on Livestock at Electoral Division level is available on the AIRO/Irish Times "Picture of Ireland" map series.

Recorded Crime Monitoring Tool

The toolkit has two main sets of data available to users – a very detailed set of crime categories at the Garda Division level and then a trimmed down set available at the much more detailed Garda Station spatial scale. The crime categories are based on the Irish Crime Classification System (ICCS).The first set of data on the tool is available at a much more detailed spatial scale with information available for 704 Garda stations across the country. For instance, within county Clare data is available for 24 different Garda stations. Crime data on particularly sensitive offences such as Homicide, Sexual Offences and Kidnapping have been excluded at the station level in order to protect individual rights to privacy. This data is available from 2003 on an annual basis.

The second set of data at Garda Division level is very detailed and relates to specific crime categories; however it is only available at abroad spatial scale. Counties Cavan and Monaghan for instance comprise a single Garda Division. This Data is available from 2004 on a quarterly basis.

 Criminal Incidents, Detection and Proceedings

 The second module available shows the distribution of criminal incidents, detection rates and court proceedings at a division level (24) for 2009 and 2010.The criminal incidents that are recorded in this module include Homicide Offences, Sexual Offences, Attempt/Threat to Murder, Dangerous or Negligent acts, Kidnapping and Related Offences, Robbery, Extortion and Hijacking, Burglary and Related Offences, Theft and Related Offences, Fraud and Deception, Controlled Drugs, Weapons and Explosives, Damage to the property and environment, Public Order, Road Traffic Offences, Offences against Government, Offences not elsewhere classified.

 Each theme is then further sub-divided into the number of offences recorded, rate of offences per 100,000 population, number of offences detected, detection rate and number of offences with relevant proceedings. For more information on the technical terms used here such as 'Recorded Offences' and 'Detected Offences' see the following source document from the CSO: Garda Recorded Crime Statistics, 2006-2010

AIRO Electoral Constituency Modules have been designed to provide a detailed socio-demographic profile of all 43 constituencies in Ireland.

The data used in these profiles generally comes from Central Statistics Office (CSO) Census outputs and is available for 2002 and 2006 at Electoral Division level(ED). If you or your organisation are interested in hosting additional data on the AIRO site please contact us for further details. To date we have Electotal Constituency mapping modules contain data on the following indicators:

• Potential Voters
• Population
• Marital Status
• Religion
• Economic Status
• Industry
• Housing
• Households
• Social Class
• Socio-Economic Group
• Education
• Transport
• Deprivation Index

Choose a Electoral Constituency module and click VIEW

Irish Famine Atlas 

The Irish famine atlas provides population data for all 32 counties within the Island of Ireland from 1841 to 2002. Data is available at Electoral Division level, at a consistent set of 3432 EDs, which is based on the 1851 Electoral Division boundary set. The data used in this population atlas is from 16 censuses, taken in both the Republic and the North of Ireland between 1841 and 2002. Please scroll to the bottom to choose a county

Additional research has also been undertaken by the National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG) that examines the spatial variations in population change at electoral division (ED) level and the extent to which features of the social and natural landscape can be identified and statistically analysed as determinants of population change. See the NCG website for further details. Click here for access

Irish Famine Data Atlas

In addition to this Population Change Atlas, the NCG also hosts the Irish Famine Data Atlas. This online Atlas of Irish Famine Data provides users with access to population and agriculture data for Ireland for this period. Using data from the Census of Population 1851 and the Agricultural Census of 1841 users can examine aspects of the Irish human and physical landscape at this time in Irish history. See the NCG website for further details.

Electoral Divisions

The boundaries used in this atlas are based on the historic Electoral Division boundaries created in the second half of the 1840s. Here we have created a boundary set of 3,432 EDs (Electoral Divisions) in accordance with those set out in the 1851 census.

Fortunately EDs have remained remarkably stable over much of the island over time, making it possible to use the current day Electoral Divisions Boundary set along with an Ordnance Survey administrative map from 1891 to match the 1851 divisions with their corresponding areas.

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Exceptions to this include EDs around Dublin, Belfast, Galway, Limerick and Galway, which increased significantly in number in the intervening years. Dublin city, for example, consisted of only two divisions in 1851 as opposed to the thirty four divisions that make up the geography of this area today. EDs that crossed county boundaries in 1851 also became problematic during the course of the project.

Northern Ireland Boundaries

The 1891 administrative map was also used to digitize the boundaries of Northern Ireland. Moreover, while Electoral Divisions continued to be used in Northern Ireland after partition there were many boundary, area and name changes, making pre-and post partition comparison problematic. To overcome this difficulty a post partition Boundary set had to be created to accommodate these changes and the mapped post-partition census data interpolated into the original 1851 Boundaries.

Similarly with the introduction of wards in Northern Ireland in 1971 electoral divisions became obsolete. Queens University Belfast have created 1 kilometre grid square data for the six counties and 100 meter grid square grid for urban areas for 1971, 1981, 1991 and the 2001 UK censuses, which they provided to us for the purpose of this project. This data was redistributed into the original 1851 Boundary set, so as to complete the mapping at a consistent set of ED boundaries.

Consequently, some EDs presented in this atlas will have undergone boundary, and in some cases, name changes since 1851 and as a result may not represent the exact geography of today’s Electoral Divisions. However, using a consistent set of boundaries provides us with a better lens on population change over time.

Licence 

All maps produced in this Irish Famine Population Change Atlas are produced under the National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG) mapping license: Ordnance Survey Ireland Licence Number EN. 0072711 © Ordnance Survey Ireland / Government of Ireland.

For further information on this project please contact Mary Kelly at the NCG. Email Mary.H.Kelly@nuim.ie or Phone 353 1 7086243

Please select a county from the list below and clik VIEW

DEHLG Unfinshed Estates

Indicators available in the DEHLG Unfinshed Estates Mapping Module are based on the National Housing Development Survey report (a synopsis of which is available below) has been prepared by the DEHLG, working closely with local authorities, the National Building Agency and the construction industry. 

The survey includes 2,846 developments comprising all incomplete housing developments containing two or more dwellings that had commenced by the time of the survey (which was conducted from May to September 2010); and any completed housing developments of two or more dwellings that were completed in the three years prior to the carrying out of the survey and where 10% or more of the dwellings in that development were vacant at the time of survey.

The survey does not include details of vacant one-off houses, details of second hand homes that may be vacant or houses that may be vacant for other reasons such as dwellings that are second homes or dwellings that may be derelict or obsolete.

Housing Monitoring Tool 

The Housing Monitoring Tool is an interactive mapping tool which allows users to interrogate a wide variety of housing data from the CSO and DEHLG at Local Authority level. 

Users can create maps, view time series data, print maps, generate images and zoom into locations using a GoogleMaps background.

The module also includes the DEHLG 'Unfinished Estates' and NIRSA 'Ghost Estates'. 

All Island Housing Monitoring Tool

The All Island Housing Monitoring Tool is one of three spatial data indicators projects undertaken by AIRO under ICLRD’s Cross-border Spatial Planning and Training Network (CroSPlaN). The indicator set contains data on a variety of themes that describe the characteristics of the housing sector on the island. Indicators are available at the Local Authority ‘District’ level (26) in Northern Ireland and at the Local Authority ‘County/City’ level in the Republic of Ireland.

The housing indicators project has developed the following comparable ‘all-island’ themes:Housing Stock 1991 to 2009,Housing Completions,Housing Vacancy,Housing Tenure,and Type. Users of Housing Indicator tool can now view the housing themes, explore patterns, monitor key indicators, present trends and importantly support decision making. Users can also query data and create user defined mapped outputs.

Pobal HP Deprivation Index -2011

The National interactive mapping tool allows users to interrogate the results of deprivation measures for the Dublin counties at NUTS III and County level. This mapping module has been developed with the author of the indices Mr Trutz Haase and Mr Johnathan Pratschke. The Deprivation Indices is available in all Local and Regional Authority modules in the Census section of the website. 

For more information on the New Measure of Deprivation Index please see the Pobal Website.

Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measures 2010

AIRO has also launched a mapping module containing the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measures, provided by NISRA.

Click here for more details and access to the raw data on the  NISRA website 

Regional Monitoring Tool 

The Regional Monitoring tool is a region comparison tool that allows users to make comparisons using one of the many monitoring indicators.

Mapping has been produced at NUTS III level with indicators developed using Census 96,02 & 06 data, CSO QHNS Data, DOEHLG Population Projections and Live Register data until 2010.

The indicators cover the following main themes:

• Population Projections
• Dependency Ratio
• Economic Status
• The Labour Market
• The Live Register
• Housing Type and Tenure
• Education Achieved; and
• Travel to Work   

Regional Census 2011 Tool  

The Regional Census 2011 Tool is the latest regional mapping module and which allows users to make comparisons

using the latest Census results at the NUTS III Regional Level.

This module includes the full suite of Census data as well as the latest Pobal HP Deprivation Index.

Sligo-Enniskillen Retail Proximity

A retail proximity analysis was carried out for the Sligo Enniskillen area. The aim was to identify travel times to a selection of retail types cross tabulated with population and age profiles.
The proximity in minutes is mapped for three types of retail outlet:

• Vertically
• Integrated Store
• Discount Store
• Nearest Store
• The 2006 population is also mapped and all data is at ED/Ward level.

Transport: Greater Dublin Area Commuting Module

The section in this module looks at work destinations for residents of the GDA. Using POWCAR data at ED level the number and percentage of each ED population who work in Dublin (4 Counties) is mapped.

The result gives us a distribution of where commuter numbers originate from within the GDA. Also mapped are the number and percentage of those who live in the GDA and work outside Dublin. This type of mapping allows the used to identify major commuter demand corridors within the GDA.

This module concerns the 124 Social Welfare Offices in the Republic of Ireland. Data available within this module

includes All Persons on the Live Register by Social Welfare Office, Sex, Age Group and Month. 

Percentage change of the figures from the Social Welfare Offices is calculated month on month as data from the Department of Social Protection is realeased and between the current month and Febuary 2008.   

This module is updated on a monthly basis and more information can be found at www.cso.ie.

In February 2011 housing authorities were directed by the Department of the Environment, Community and

Local Government to carry out an assessment of need existing at 31st March, 2011.

This module contains data released in conjunction with this report of the Housing Needs of all Local

Authorities in the Republic of Ireland. For more details on the report please go to the website of the

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government website by clicking here.