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Welcome to the Placenames Database of Ireland, developed by Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge (DCU) and The Placenames Branch (Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht).

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Browse the database by county:

Meitheal Logainm.ie provides a crowdsourcing tool for pooling, storing and sharing data about minor placenames.

Glossary of words commonly found in Irish placenames.

Historical maps, publications and illustrations related to placenames.

List of legal instruments that implement the Official Languages Act 2003.

This feature enables the searching of c.5,800 toponymic sources.

Translate a list of placenames from one language to another in one step, without having to search for them individually.

Resources for teachers and learners at primary, post-primary and third level.

Placename-themed interactive games for primary and post-primary schools.

An archive of the placenames recordings of the Placenames Branch.

61,120 townlands 38,086 streets 3,471 electoral districts 2,666 minor features 2,563 civil parishes 2,321 population centres 1,949 lakes 1,289 islands and archipelagos 1,171 rocks 1,011 rivers 856 sub-townlands 792 hills 790 towns 694 fields 634 mountains and mountain ranges 614 bridges 515 wells 434 houses 415 creeks 414 points 345 baronies 306 ecclesiastical sites 287 monuments 273 man-made features 242 strands 225 streams 221 enclosures 213 bays 210 crossroads 205 roads 203 promontories 201 cliffs 198 graveyards, cemeteries, burial grounds 179 valleys 179 villages 169 castles 166 features 161 woods 137 localities 113 holes 93 passes 90 historical names 87 harbours 77 bogs 73 patches of ground 56 quays, piers, wharves 54 fords 49 cairns 49 caves, souterrains 44 coombs 41 channels, sounds 34 waterfalls 34 hamlets 32 counties 31 estuaries 30 footpaths 29 standing stones 27 marshes 25 fissures 25 hollows 23 brows, slopes, hillsides 21 tombs 17 (sand) banks 17 reefs 16 dioceses 12 canals 12 sandhills 11 turloughs 77 other geographical units