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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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61,123 townlands 38,241 streets 3,477 electoral districts 2,684 minor features 2,563 civil parishes 2,320 population centres 1,951 lakes 1,287 islands and archipelagos 1,167 rocks 1,012 rivers 834 sub-townlands 792 towns 788 hills 695 fields 634 mountains and mountain ranges 608 bridges 511 wells 434 houses 415 creeks 407 points 345 baronies 303 ecclesiastical sites 287 monuments 270 man-made features 241 strands 225 streams 222 enclosures 213 bays 207 crossroads 205 promontories 203 roads 199 cliffs 197 graveyards, cemeteries, burial grounds 180 villages 179 valleys 169 castles 166 features 161 woods 135 localities 113 holes 92 passes 90 historical names 87 harbours 77 bogs 73 patches of ground 56 quays, piers, wharves 49 fords 49 caves, souterrains 48 cairns 44 coombs 41 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 17 (sand) banks 16 dioceses 16 reefs 12 canals 12 sandhills 11 turloughs 70 other geographical units