Priority Habitats - Peatland

About this layer

The Northern Ireland Peatland map layer displays information from the NI Peatalnd Survey (1988) which mapped peatland vegetation at 1:20,000 scale for the whole of Northern Ireland derived from the interpretation of 1970s and 1980s aerial photographs.

Data Sources:

Published in 1988 using the most recent aerial photograph imagery available at the time (from 1970s and 1980s)

Authors - Cruickshank, M.M. & Tomlinson, R.W. (1988). Northern Ireland Peatland Survey. Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland (Countryside and Wildlife Branch). Belfast.

What can you do with the layer?

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.
Publisher name: OpenDataNI
Last updated: 2026-02-05T04:01:18Z