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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.

61,163 townlands 24,439 streets 3,480 electoral districts 2,563 civil parishes 2,515 minor features 2,319 population centres 1,945 lakes 1,241 islands and archipelagos 1,044 rocks 997 rivers 815 sub-townlands 795 towns 730 hills 633 mountains and mountain ranges 579 bridges 430 wells 428 houses 386 points, tips 345 baronies 290 ecclesiastical sites 287 monuments 259 creeks 241 man-made features 220 strands 211 bays 208 enclosures 204 promontories 193 streams 192 crossroads 191 graveyards, cemeteries, burial grounds 179 villages 168 castles 166 features 165 cliffs 156 fields 154 woods 153 valleys 139 roads 131 localities 90 historical names 86 passes 77 harbours 72 holes 53 quays, piers, wharves 52 bogs 43 cairns 38 coombs 37 channels, sounds 35 caves, souterrains 34 hamlets 33 waterfalls 32 counties 30 estuaries 28 standing stones 25 footpaths 25 fissures 24 fords 23 patches of ground 23 hollows 23 brows, slopes, hillsides 21 tombs 20 marshes 16 dioceses 16 reefs 12 canals 11 sandhills 11 turloughs 67 other geographical units