General hospitals provide both diagnostic and therapeutic services for a variety of medical conditions. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), these hospitals provide medical and nursing care for more than one category of medical discipline. The locations of HSE General Hospitals in Ireland were sourced from the HSE website and were valid as of September 2025. The list excludes the three paediatric hospitals in Dublin (i.e. Children’s Health Ireland at Tallaght, Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin, Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street), which serves only those aged 15 and under.
HSE Emergency Departments (EDs) provide 24-hour care for serious injuries and life-threatening emergencies, and treat individuals aged 16 and over. ED locations form a subset of General Hospitals and were captured from the HSE website.
HSE Injury Units treat many conditions commonly presented at EDs, including broken bones, dislocations, and minor burns. Fourteen HSE Injury Units were identified from the HSE website, valid as of March 2026.
This combined classification includes locations where either an HSE Emergency Department or Injury Unit is available.
Under the Maternity and Infant Scheme, all pregnant women ordinarily resident in Ireland are entitled to maternity care. The locations of the 19 HSE Maternity Departments were sourced from the HSE website, and were valid as of September 2025. Private hospitals also provide Maternity Care in some areas, but details of these services are not listed here.
HSE Maternity Emergency Departments are provided by hospitals offering 24-hour emergency care for labour, pregnancy complications, postnatal complications, and acute gynaecological emergencies. Locations were sourced from the HSE website, and were valid as of September 2025.
HSE Primary Care Centres (PCC) provide a single point of access to health services. They offer an alternative to hospitals for the management of many aspects of care for long-term conditions like diabetes, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Primary care centres and other community facilities can also be developed to support access to diagnostics and to provide minor surgery. Data on PCC locations were supplied by the HSE on 06 October 2025.
Location in Ireland of General Practitioner (GP) was sourced from the HSE website. Multiple GP’s may be co-located in the same practice. The locations of GP’s included in this report were captured as of 20 September 2025.
Pharmacy locations include all public-facing pharmacies registered with the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI), excluding hospital dispensaries. These locations were provided from PSI as of 18 August 2025.
Public transport data was sourced from data.gov.ie and derived through post‑processing of General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) schedule files. Because GTFS files are overwritten whenever operators update their timetables, the static dataset used for this project was downloaded and archived locally on 19/05/2025 to ensure consistency during analysis. Data sourced from NTA GTFS - Dataset - data.gov.ie which directs users to DFI data download page, GTFS | Transport for Ireland and consisted of; Local Link, Dublin Bus, Bus Eireann, LUAS, Irish Rail and Small Operators.
Service frequency was calculated by processing the following elements of GTFS data: calendar, trips, agency, routes, stops, stop times. This data was used to produce service levels for each stop in terms of the number of as the number of times a stop is available for pick-up of passengers.
High Frequency Public Transport was defined as stops which were served 10 or more times in a Weekday Service between 6am to 8pm. This category encompasses all high frequency rail, bus and LUAS stops.
Bus public transport stops with service levels associated with the number of times a service stops and allows onboarding of passengers.
Bus Stops that were served 10 or more times in a Weekday Service between 6am to 8pm.
Rail public transport stops with service levels associated with the number of times a service stops and allows onboarding of passengers.
Rail (including DART) stops that were served 10 or more times in a Weekday Service between 6am to 8pm.
Dublin-based tram public transport stops with service levels associated with the number of times a service stops and allows onboarding of passengers. LUAS tram services operate at a consistently high baseline frequency, so there is no distinction between regular and High Frequency for this service.
Fuel Stations were based on Geo-directory locations using 2024 Q4 data, and based on NACE code G.47.30 - Retail sale of automotive fuel in specialised store.
Location of bike share stations from TFI and Dublin bikes as of June 2026. These exist in the following cities: Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Cork and Waterford. This data set is combined from two streams of data around bike share schemes that have fixed stations. This data set is station locations for TFI stations and Dublin bike stations. A fixed station is accessed via card and locks the bike in place in fixed stations. This is in contrast to other systems that allow users to in unspecified locations (Bleep, Lime etc).