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Workshop: Placenames in bilingual areas

Date: 12-13 May 2022

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Welcome to the Placenames Database of Ireland, developed by Gaois, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge (DCU) and The Placenames Branch (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media).

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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.

An archive of the placenames recordings of the Placenames Branch.

61,125 townlands 38,064 streets 3,471 electoral districts 2,654 minor features 2,563 civil parishes 2,320 population centres 1,951 lakes 1,291 islands and archipelagos 1,173 rocks 1,013 rivers 863 sub-townlands 803 hills 790 towns 695 fields 638 mountains and mountain ranges 618 bridges 523 wells 424 houses 415 creeks 415 points 345 baronies 309 ecclesiastical sites 288 monuments 275 man-made features 242 strands 226 enclosures 226 streams 214 bays 210 crossroads 203 roads 203 promontories 202 graveyards, cemeteries, burial grounds 201 cliffs 178 valleys 178 villages 169 castles 165 features 163 woods 136 localities 113 holes 92 passes 90 historical names 89 harbours 78 bogs 73 patches of ground 56 quays, piers, wharves 54 fords 51 cairns 49 caves, souterrains 44 coombs 41 channels, sounds 34 waterfalls 33 hamlets 32 counties 31 estuaries 30 footpaths 29 standing stones 27 marshes 25 fissures 25 hollows 23 brows, slopes, hillsides 21 tombs 17 (sand) banks 17 reefs 16 dioceses 12 canals 12 sandhills 11 turloughs 76 other geographical units