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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.

61,152 townlands 24,306 streets 3,478 electoral districts 2,563 civil parishes 2,510 minor features 2,320 population centres 1,946 lakes 1,243 islands and archipelagos 1,044 rocks 996 rivers 816 sub-townlands 795 towns 731 hills 632 mountains and mountain ranges 581 bridges 433 wells 429 houses 386 points, tips 345 baronies 290 ecclesiastical sites 287 monuments 259 creeks 244 man-made features 221 strands 211 bays 211 enclosures 204 promontories 194 graveyards, cemeteries, burial grounds 193 streams 192 crossroads 179 villages 168 castles 165 cliffs 165 features 157 woods 156 fields 154 valleys 140 roads 134 localities 90 historical names 86 passes 77 harbours 73 holes 53 quays, piers, wharves 53 bogs 44 cairns 38 channels, sounds 38 coombs 35 caves, souterrains 34 hamlets 33 waterfalls 32 counties 30 estuaries 28 standing stones 25 footpaths 25 fissures 24 fords 24 hollows 23 patches of ground 23 brows, slopes, hillsides 21 tombs 20 marshes 16 dioceses 16 reefs 12 canals 11 sandhills 11 turloughs 67 other geographical units