Northern Ireland Coastal Vulnerability Assessment for Historic Assets

A 2018 high-level vulnerability assessment of historic assets along the Northern Ireland coast, prepared by Amey Consulting with HR Wallingford for government departments. This geospatial layer results from an Erosion Risk Appraisal stage, comparing erosion risk against asset value. The full report is published by the Department for Infrastructure and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.

Use Cases

• Prioritizing coastal defense investments based on erosion risk and historic asset value mentioned in the description
• Modeling future heritage loss scenarios using the high/medium/low risk and value classifications
• Integrating risk layers with physical and natural asset data for comprehensive coastal management planning

Strengths

• Data is derived from a formal government-commissioned baseline study and gap analysis
• Assessment methodology is documented in a publicly available report
• Available in standard geospatial formats (GeoJSON, ESRI Shapefile)

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last update date is unknown; data is based on information available in 2018

Provenance

Source

Department for Infrastructure (DfI) and Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), Northern Ireland

Collection Method

Created by Amey Consulting with HR Wallingford as part of a high-level preliminary vulnerability assessment using available data

Time Range

Study prepared in 2018

Freshness

Data was produced in 2018; update frequency is unknown.

Geography

Northern Ireland coast