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Sound files now available for Co. Down placenames

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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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.

61,125 townlands 38,236 streets 3,477 electoral districts 2,636 minor features 2,563 civil parishes 2,320 population centres 1,951 lakes 1,288 islands and archipelagos 1,137 rocks 1,012 rivers 832 sub-townlands 792 towns 788 hills 695 fields 634 mountains and mountain ranges 609 bridges 511 wells 434 houses 410 creeks 407 points 345 baronies 303 ecclesiastical sites 287 monuments 268 man-made features 239 strands 225 streams 222 enclosures 213 bays 207 crossroads 205 promontories 203 roads 197 graveyards, cemeteries, burial grounds 188 cliffs 180 villages 179 valleys 169 castles 166 features 161 woods 135 localities 104 holes 92 passes 90 historical names 88 harbours 76 bogs 73 patches of ground 56 quays, piers, wharves 49 fords 49 caves, souterrains 48 cairns 44 coombs 39 channels, sounds 35 hamlets 34 waterfalls 32 counties 31 estuaries 30 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 10 (sand) banks 69 other geographical units