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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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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