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ISO-19139 Metadata

Metadata Information

Metadata language: eng

Metadata character set: utf8

Last update: 2024-05-21

Metadata maintenance:

Update frequency: asNeeded

Metadata constraints:

General constraints:

Limitations of use: Data that is produced directly by the Geological Survey Ireland (GSI) is free for use under the conditions of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcodeUnder the CC-BY Licence, users must acknowledge the source of the Information in their product or application.Please use this specific attribution statement: "Contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.In cases where it is not practical to use the statement users may include a URI or hyperlink to a resource that contains the required attribution statement.

Metadata constraints:

Security constraints:

Classification: unclassified

Metadata contact:

Role: pointOfContact

Individual's name: Information Management

Organization's name: Geological Survey Ireland

Contact's position: Head of Information Management

Contact information:

Phone:

Voice: +353-1-6782896

Address:

Delivery point: Block 1, Booterstown Hall, Booterstown, Blackrock
City: Dublin
Postal code: A94 N2R6
Country: IE
e-mail address: support@geodata.gov.ie

Online resource:

Name of resource: GSI Website
Online location: https://www.gsi.ie
Connection protocol: text/html
Function performed: information
Description: GSI Website

Scope of the data described by the metadata: dataset

Scope name: dataset

Name of the metadata standard used: INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules: Technical Guidelines based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119

Version of the metadata standard: V. 2.0.1

Metadata identifier: MD_GE_Borehole_IE_GeologicalSurveyIreland_BedrockBoreholesVerified_50K_Ireland_ITM

Data Identification Information

Resource citation:

Title:

Date:

Reference date - creation: 2016-10-31

Date:

Reference date - publication: 2016-10-31

Date:

Reference date - revision: 2019-10-18

Presentation format: mapDigital

Citation identifier:

Value: GE_Borehole_IE_GeologicalSurveyIreland_BedrockBoreholesVerified_50K_Ireland_ITM

Identifier authority citation:

Title: geodata.gov.ie

Date:

Reference date - creation: 2016-10-31

Date:

Reference date - publication: 2016-10-31

Date:

Reference date - revision: 2019-10-18

Edition: 2018

Cited responsible party:

Role: pointOfContact

Individual's name: Geological Mapping

Organization's name: Geological Survey Ireland

Contact's position: Head of Geological Mapping

Contact information:

Phone:

Voice: +353-1-6782896

Address:

Delivery point: Block 1, Booterstown Hall, Booterstown, Blackrock
City: Dublin
Postal code: A94 N2R6
Country: IE
e-mail address: support@geodata.gov.ie

Online resource:

Name of resource: GSI Website
Online location: https://www.gsi.ie
Connection protocol: text/html
Function performed: information
Description: GSI Website

Themes or categories of the resource: environment, geoscientificInformation, location

Descriptive keywords:

Place keywords:

Keywords: Ireland

Keyword thesaurus:

Title:

Alternate title: MDR-COUNTRIES

Date:

Reference date - publication: 2015-03-18

Edition: 20200624-0

Descriptive keywords:

Theme keywords:

Keywords: Geology

Keyword thesaurus:

Title:

Alternate title: GEMET INSPIRE

Date:

Reference date - publication: 2008-06-01

Descriptive keywords:

Keyword type not provided

Keywords: IE/GSI

Keyword thesaurus:

Title:

Alternate title: GCMD Data Center Keywords

Date:

Reference date - publication: 2016-08-04

Edition: 9.1.5

Descriptive keywords:

Keyword type not provided

Keywords: National

Keyword thesaurus:

Title:

Date:

Reference date - publication: 2019-05-22

Abstract: A borehole is any hole drilled or dug into the ground. The hole is usually deep, narrow and round. The material (soil and or rock) from the hole is collected and tested in a laboratory to find out the structure and type of the soil and or rock beneath the ground. A borehole record or log is a written description of the material that comes out of the ground as a result of drilling a borehole. Bedrock boreholes are usually deep (can reach up to 1000m). We drill boreholes to improve and update our bedrock, quaternary sediments and groundwater maps. We store the samples (core) and these are available to view by appointment. We’re in the process of scanning all the core and the images will be available online when completed. This map shows the location of the bedrock boreholes drilled in Ireland by the GSI or submitted to the GSI from mineral exploration companies.This Bedrock boreholes map is to the scale 1:50,000. This means it should be viewed at that scale. When printed at that scale 1cm on the map relates to a distance of 500m.It is a vector dataset. Vector data portray the world using points, lines, and polygons (areas).The borehole data is shown as points. Each point holds information on the location of the borehole (X and Y coordinates), Borehole ID (borehole identifier), the length of the hole (metres), the angle the hole was drilled, azimuth (direction the hole was drilled), comments, county, 1:50,000 sheet number, prospecting licence number (PL), data source and contains a url to download a PDF of the borehole log.

Purpose: Boreholes provide vital information on the characteristics and properties of the ground beneath our feet. The information helps us determine the nature of the ground and can help identify any visible or potential hazards. Materials extracted from beneath the ground supply everything we need to sustain our life as we know it. From the fuels we use to run our cars, to the numerous minerals that are in your mobile phone, to the minerals and water in the food and drink we rely on. These materials include rocks, minerals and fluids (eg water) or gas contained in rocks. Data from boreholes and geological reports are vital for finding out where these materials are located and if they are suitable for extraction. eg water, coal, oil, sand, gravel gypsum etc. The data also helps to monitor the availability of the resource eg water. Rock properties and structures such as faults impact how water and/or pollutants move below the surface. Drinking water can be protected by locating potential polluting operations, such as landfills, away from groundwater. Geothermal energy is the energy stored in the form of heat beneath the surface of the earth. It can be used to supply heat and hot water. It can also be used to cool a house by removing surplus heat energy and putting it into the ground. Boreholes, along with bedrock, subsoil and aquifer maps are used to help decide if the ground under a site is suitable for geothermal energy extraction. Engineers need this information when they are designing structures (houses, buildings, roads, etc.). They need to know the quality of the ground (strength and depth of soil, if rock and or groundwater is present) and how structures can be built in and on it. They use the information to decide the best supports and foundations needed for structures so that they don’t collapse. They can also find out if there are any underground obstructions, groundwater, faults etc. which could result in additional costs or delays.

Dataset language:eng

Dataset character set: utf8

Status: onGoing

Resource maintenance:

Update frequency: irregular

Resource constraints:

General constraints:

Limitations of use: Data that is produced directly by the Geological Survey Ireland (GSI) is free for use under the conditions of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcodeUnder the CC-BY Licence, users must acknowledge the source of the Information in their product or application.Please use this specific attribution statement: "Contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.In cases where it is not practical to use the statement users may include a URI or hyperlink to a resource that contains the required attribution statement.

Resource constraints:

Legal constraints:

Use constraints: otherRestrictions
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Resource constraints:

Legal constraints:

Access constraints: otherRestrictions
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Security constraints:

Classification: unclassified

Spatial representation type: vector

Processing environment: Esri ArcGIS 12.6.3.24783

Spatial resolution:

Equivalent scale:

Scale denominator: 50000

Spatial resolution:

Ground sample distance: 500

Units: m

Resource extent:

Geographic element:

Bounding rectangle:

West longitude: -9.51190828129796
East longitude: -6.0425884006742
North latitude: 54.4062481637097
South latitude: 51.9396658164414

Temporal element:

Temporal extent:

Beginning date: 1845-05-22T00:00:00
Ending date: 2019-10-18T00:00:00
Object GML ID: N66386

Resource extent:

Geographic element:

Bounding rectangle:

Extent contains the resource: true
West longitude: -9.511908
East longitude: -6.042588
North latitude: 54.406248
South latitude: 51.939666

Credits: Geological Survey Ireland

Resource point of contact:

Role: pointOfContact

Individual's name: Geological Mapping

Organization's name: Geological Survey Ireland

Contact's position: Head of Geological Mapping

Contact information:

Phone:

Voice: +353-1-6782896

Address:

Delivery point: Block 1, Booterstown Hall, Booterstown, Blackrock
City: Dublin
Postal code: A94 N2R6
Country: IE
e-mail address: support@geodata.gov.ie

Online resource:

Name of resource: GSI Website
Online location: https://www.gsi.ie
Connection protocol: text/html
Function performed: information
Description: GSI Website

Spatial Representation

Vector Data

Level of topology for this dataset: geometryOnly

Geometric objects:

Object type: point
Object count: 3025

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier:

Value: 2157

Identifier authority citation:

Title:

Alternate title: EPSG

Date:

Reference date - publication: 2004-04-07

Edition: 9.8.12

Code space: EPSG

Version: 6.5.1(8.1.2)

Data Quality

Scope of quality information:

Level of the data:dataset

Resource lineage:

Lineage statement: In Ireland, mineral exploration companies must obtain a licence from the Government to carry out any exploration activities such as drilling boreholes. They must submit the exploration reports after 6 years or upon surrender of the licence. Reports were submitted to the Geological Survey Ireland (GSI) between 1957 and 2002. Since then they have been submitted to the Mineral Exploration & Mining Division (EMD) of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC). The GSI holds 799 box files of reports relating to mineral exploration carried out in the Republic of Ireland from 1957 to 2002. These include written reports, maps, geophysical data, geochemical data and boreholes logs. Details from these reports were manually entered into an oracle database named Open File via a visual basic application named Geodata. The reports were scanned and can be accessed using the geodata application and they are also available on GSI’s online digital archive for maps and documents (GOLDMINE). Both Geodata (Open File database) and GOLDMINE can be accessed on the GSI website. EMD records can be accessed on the DECC website. To produce this dataset, borehole logs were extracted from the open file database for all holes drilled within the study area. An ESRI geodatabase was created with attributes such as Borehole_ID, X, Y, Length of borehole in metres, Angle, Azimuth, comments, county, prospecting licence number (PL), data source and url (to download a PDF of the borehole log). In many cases, coordinates were provided as part of the log for each hole. Sometimes these needed to be converted from Irish National Grid (ING) to Irish Transverse Mercator (ITM) using ESRI software (ArcMap). Some holes, mostly older holes, didn’t have coordinates. They were only drawn on a paper map which had been scanned. In these cases, the map was georeferenced (location information was added using Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) basemaps as a reference) or the location was identified by eye on geofererenced maps (historic & OSI) and the coordinates were recorded. The data was compared to the holes in the EMD database and any additional holes missing from the GSI open file database were extracted from the EMD database and added in to this dataset. Data was checked visually using tools within ArcGIS and geofererenced maps (historic and OSI). The GSI also drill boreholes to improve and update bedrock, quaternary sediments and groundwater maps. Any GSI boreholes drilled are included in the dataset. The logs are hosted by the GSI online as PDFs and URLs are provided within the dataset.

Data quality report:

Domain consistency:

Data quality result:

Conformance test results:

Test passed: false

Meaning of the result: The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.

Test specification:

Title:

Alternate title: D2.8.II.4 Data Specification on Geology - Technical Guidelines

Date:

Reference date - publication: 2010-12-08

Data quality report:

Domain consistency:

Data quality result:

Conformance test results:

Test passed: false

Meaning of the result: See the reference specification

Test specification:

Title:

Alternate title: Regulation 1089/2010 COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date:

Reference date - publication: 2010-12-08

Data quality report:

Domain consistency:

Data quality result:

Conformance test results:

Test passed: true

Meaning of the result: See the reference specification

Test specification:

Title:

Alternate title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata

Date:

Reference date - publication: 2010-12-08

Distribution Information

Distributor:

Distributor contact:

Role: publisher

Individual's name: Information Management

Organization's name: Geological Survey Ireland

Contact's position: Head of Information Management

Contact information:

Phone:

Voice: +353-1-6782896

Address:

Delivery point: Block 1, Booterstown Hall, Booterstown, Blackrock
City: Dublin
Postal code: A94 N2R6
Country: IE
e-mail address: support@geodata.gov.ie

Online resource:

Name of resource: GSI Website
Online location: https://www.gsi.ie
Connection protocol: text/html
Function performed: information
Description: GSI Website

Distribution format:

Format name: Enterprise Geodatabase Feature Class
Format version: 10.7

Transfer options: