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Priority Habitats - Grassland

Publisher
OpenDataNI
Updated
27 August 2026
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Summary

About this layer

The Grassland Inventory incorporates evidence collected from a series of research contracts let to identify and survey areas of grassland of high nature conservation value.

This data represents NIEA surveys and may not represent the entire extent of habitat or species across Northern Ireland

The research focused on identifying grassland habitats that are a priority within the Northern Ireland biodiversity strategy and also those identified as being of particular importance within Annex 1 of the Habitats Directive. The research methodology used well established survey techniques to identify high nature conservation value grasslands from high incidence study areas throughout Northern Ireland.

Data Sources:

Habitat Survey Team, Conservation Science: 1985 - 2014

University of Ulster: 1999

ADAS: 2000 - 2005

Allen & Mellon Environmental: 2005 - 2007

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Visualisation: This layer can be used for visualisation online in web maps.

Analysis: This layer can be used in dashboards.

Download: The data is downloadable.

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GeoJSON GEOJSON 26/8/2026
Shapefile SHP 26/8/2026
CSV CSV Preview 26/8/2026
ArcGIS GeoService JSON 26/8/2026
ArcGIS Hub Dataset HTML 26/8/2026

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