Species Detail - Eurasian Badger (Meles meles) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Atlas of Mammals in Ireland 2010-2015".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Live Map

Species image

Meles meles
Eurasian Badger
NHMSYS0000080191 UnverifiedUnverified
Protected Species: Wildlife Acts
memel
(Linnaeus, 1758)
terrestrial mammal
Species
2455
609
115
22/02/1981
31/12/2015
1 January (recorded in 1969)
31 December (recorded in 1968)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Atlas of Mammals in Ireland 2010-2015, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Eurasian Badger (Meles meles), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/252/Species/119470>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)