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.