Land Use Data for Latitude 53.25 Longitude -6.25

Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude

Locations

Baldoyle Bay
Baldoyle Bay SPA
Broadmeadow/Swords Estuary SPA
Dalkey Islands SPA
Dublin Bay
Howth Head
Lambay Island
Lambay Island SPA
Malahide/ Broadmeadow Estuary
North Bull Island
North Bull Island SPA
North Wicklow coastal marshes
Rogerstown estuary
Rogerstown Estuary SPA
Sandymount Strand/Tolka Estuary SPA
The Murrough SPA
Wicklow Mountains
Wicklow Mountains SPA

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Barley
Cereals and cereal products

Growing Period (days)

240 to 269
270 to 299
300 to 329

Soil Types

Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Luvisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

5 to 10

Agricultural use data provided by LADA, 2008. "Mapping Land Use Systems at global and regional scales for Land Degradation Assessment Analysis. Version 1.0" Nachtergaele F. & Petri M.
Mineral extraction data provided by USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS), downloaded June 2, 2010.