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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.

61,167 townlands 24,439 streets 3,482 electoral districts 2,563 civil parishes 2,510 minor features 2,320 population centres 1,944 lakes 1,243 islands and archipelagos 1,045 rocks 996 rivers 810 sub-townlands 799 towns 731 hills 635 mountains and mountain ranges 579 bridges 429 wells 428 houses 386 points, tips 345 baronies 289 ecclesiastical sites 287 monuments 259 creeks 243 man-made features 219 strands 211 bays 208 enclosures 205 promontories 193 streams 192 crossroads 190 graveyards, cemeteries, burial grounds 177 villages 166 castles 166 features 165 cliffs 156 fields 154 woods 153 valleys 139 roads 130 localities 90 historical names 85 passes 78 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 29 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 66 other geographical units