Date (Publication)

2000

Citation identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605375

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	gsni@economy-ni.gov.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	gsni@economy-ni.gov.uk	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Digital maps

• UK Location (INSPIRE)

• Geology

• Maps

• GIS

• Data

dataCentre

• UK Location (INSPIRE)

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

The usual BGS licensing terms and conditions apply to external use of the data. Data licence required.

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints

Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section ( ipr@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

250000

Language

English

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

NIR

ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision

Geographic identifier

NORTHERN IRELAND [id=181000]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Begin date

1991

Begin date

1991

End date

2000

Unique resource identifier

OSNI 1952 / Irish National Grid (EPSG::29901)

Distribution format

Name	Version
VECTOR - SHP, TAB, DGN Files etc.

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	gsni@economy-ni.gov.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/gsni/	Geological Survey of Northern Ireland Homepage

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

Recorded and digitised as necessary from 250k published GSNI maps. Data created and exported as V1 in Irish National Grid December 2000.

Metadata

File identifier

9df8df52-d765-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML

Metadata language

English

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2025-07-05

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey		enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605375