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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.

61,152 townlands 24,325 streets 3,478 electoral districts 2,563 civil parishes 2,544 minor features 2,320 population centres 1,947 lakes 1,248 islands and archipelagos 1,055 rocks 997 rivers 822 sub-townlands 795 towns 766 hills 633 mountains and mountain ranges 590 bridges 553 fields 452 wells 432 houses 387 points, tips 345 baronies 295 ecclesiastical sites 287 monuments 260 creeks 253 man-made features 223 strands 213 enclosures 211 bays 204 promontories 204 streams 197 crossroads 195 graveyards, cemeteries, burial grounds 194 roads 179 villages 168 castles 167 cliffs 167 valleys 165 features 159 woods 134 localities 90 historical names 87 passes 82 bogs 79 holes 77 harbours 73 patches of ground 56 quays, piers, wharves 44 cairns 39 coombs 38 channels, sounds 36 caves, souterrains 35 hamlets 34 waterfalls 32 counties 30 estuaries 28 standing stones 27 footpaths 26 fords 26 hollows 25 fissures 24 brows, slopes, hillsides 24 marshes 21 tombs 16 dioceses 16 reefs 12 canals 12 sandhills 11 turloughs 70 other geographical units