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Boundaries for administrative units are now visible on logainm.ie. They are shown instead of pins, see here for example.

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.

61,137 townlands 24,194 streets 3,478 electoral districts 2,599 minor features 2,563 civil parishes 2,320 population centres 1,951 lakes 1,288 islands and archipelagos 1,122 rocks 1,011 rivers 826 sub-townlands 793 towns 786 hills 651 fields 634 mountains and mountain ranges 602 bridges 509 wells 434 houses 398 points, tips 345 baronies 303 ecclesiastical sites 287 monuments 262 man-made features 260 creeks 235 strands 223 streams 220 enclosures 213 bays 206 crossroads 203 roads 203 promontories 197 graveyards, cemeteries, burial grounds 183 cliffs 180 villages 179 valleys 169 castles 166 features 162 woods 135 localities 99 holes 92 passes 90 historical names 85 harbours 85 bogs 70 patches of ground 56 quays, piers, wharves 50 fords 50 caves, souterrains 48 cairns 44 coombs 39 channels, sounds 35 hamlets 34 waterfalls 32 counties 30 estuaries 28 footpaths 28 standing stones 27 marshes 26 hollows 25 fissures 24 brows, slopes, hillsides 21 tombs 16 dioceses 16 reefs 12 canals 12 sandhills 11 turloughs 75 other geographical units