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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.

61,130 townlands 24,117 streets 3,478 electoral districts 2,599 minor features 2,563 civil parishes 2,320 population centres 1,952 lakes 1,285 islands and archipelagos 1,126 rocks 1,011 rivers 830 sub-townlands 792 towns 785 hills 673 fields 634 mountains and mountain ranges 602 bridges 510 wells 434 houses 401 points 345 baronies 303 ecclesiastical sites 287 monuments 262 man-made features 260 creeks 235 strands 224 streams 221 enclosures 213 bays 206 crossroads 203 promontories 202 roads 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 83 bogs 69 patches of ground 55 quays, piers, wharves 50 fords 50 caves, souterrains 48 cairns 44 coombs 39 channels, sounds 35 hamlets 34 waterfalls 32 counties 30 estuaries 29 footpaths 28 standing stones 27 marshes 25 fissures 25 hollows 23 brows, slopes, hillsides 21 tombs 16 dioceses 16 reefs 12 canals 12 sandhills 11 turloughs 76 other geographical units