data.gov.ie (Ireland's Open Data Portal) CKAN API
data.gov.ie (Ireland's Open Data Portal) CKAN API
data.gov.ie, Ireland's national open data portal run by the Department of Public Expenditure, catalogues public-sector datasets by theme with a keyless CKAN API for search and metadata (about 23,000 datasets in the live API count).
Required Attribution:
Required: "Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence" where the provider gives no specific statement.
Coverage
Metadata for Irish public-sector datasets from many publishers. The live package_search count read on 2026-11-12 was 22,963. The licence page says: "All data and metadata linked to data.gov.ie will be associated with the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) Licence, at a minimum." Update frequency varies by dataset: Not stated.
Verdict
Keyless CKAN API for Ireland's national catalogue (distinct from the Met Éireann datasets it hosts). Licensed CC-BY-4.0: the Open Data Licence page says "This licence lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon data, even commercially, as long as they credit the originator for the original creation." Some datasets may use CC0; check each dataset. Rate limits: Not stated. Signal Lab links only.
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