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Minor Placenames Workshop 2018

Registration is now open for the Minor Placenames Workshop which will be held in Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge on 17 & 18 May. More information >>

Registration closes: 11 May 2018.

Competition for post-primary schools - Meitheal Logainm.ie

Enter details of minor placenames on Meitheal Logainm.ie and be in with a chance to win great prizes! More information >>

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.

61,166 townlands 24,431 streets 3,482 electoral districts 2,563 civil parishes 2,517 minor features 2,320 population centres 1,944 lakes 1,243 islands and archipelagos 1,045 rocks 997 rivers 806 sub-townlands 799 towns 731 hills 636 mountains and mountain ranges 576 bridges 429 wells 425 houses 388 points, tips 345 baronies 289 ecclesiastical sites 288 monuments 259 creeks 244 man-made features 219 strands 211 bays 208 enclosures 205 promontories 193 streams 190 graveyards, cemeteries, burial grounds 189 crossroads 177 villages 166 castles 166 features 165 cliffs 156 fields 154 woods 153 valleys 138 roads 129 localities 90 historical names 85 passes 77 harbours 72 holes 53 quays, piers, wharves 52 bogs 43 cairns 38 channels, sounds 38 coombs 35 hamlets 35 caves, souterrains 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 15 reefs 12 canals 11 sandhills 11 turloughs 66 other geographical units