Interface Barriers
In early 2017, Belfast Interface Project (BIP) commissioned a piece of research carried out by the Institute for Conflict Research (ICR) to identify and classify the known security barriers and associated forms of defensive architecture in residential areas across Northern Ireland, drawing on previous research for BIP (focusing only on Belfast City) by ICR (2011, 2008) and by Frankie Quinn (2005).
The purpose of this work is to create a common information set regarding the manifestation of defensive architecture. The resulting barriers have been mapped by Detail Data. You can view the map on the BIP website.
Clusters
The different structures are contained within a number of 'clusters' - groupings of distinct and separate, but related, instances of defensively used space.
Ownership and Year Built
Owing to the historical nature of some of the structures, it is not always possible to identify owners in a small number of cases, and identifying the exact year when a structure was built is not always possible.
Abbreviations
- BCC - Belfast City Council
- BIP - Belfast Interface Project
- DoJ - Department of Justice (NI)
- DRD - Department of Regional Development (now Department of Infrastructure)
- NIHE - Northern Ireland Housing Executive
- ICR - Institute for Conflict Research
Data and Resources
- Interface Barriers 2017csv
Details of security barriers and forms of defensive architecture ...
Explore Data Download - Interface Barriers 2017 (Shapefile)shp
Zipped geographic shapefile with details of security barriers and forms of...
Explore Data Download - Interface Barriers 2017 (Geojson)geojson
Geographic (geojson format) file with details of security barriers and forms...
Explore Data Download
Dataset Info
These fields are compatible with DCAT, an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web.Field | Value |
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Publisher | |
Author | |
Modified Date | 2017-07-04 |
Release Date | 2017-04-06 |
Frequency | Irregularly |
Identifier | d0036498-74cd-470f-9fd7-7488cf52e2ce |
Licence | |
Rights Statement | Belfast Interface Project (2017). Research carried out by Neil Jarman (Institute for Conflict Research) and mapping by Bob Harper (NICVA). Published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) |
Open Definition | |
Topic | |
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Area (WKT) | POLYGON ((-8.16926 55.4436, -5.08667 55.4436, -5.08667 53.8702, -8.16926 53.8702, -8.16926 55.4436)) |
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Location | Northern Ireland |
Temporal Coverage | 01/01/1969 to 01/04/2017 |
Contact Name | Harper, Bob |
Contact Email | |
Language | English |