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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.

61,113 townlands 37,734 streets 3,474 electoral divisions 2,616 minor features 2,562 civil parishes 2,318 population centres 1,956 lakes 1,297 islands and archipelagos 1,173 rocks 1,015 rivers 880 sub-townlands 811 hills 790 towns 695 fields 641 mountains and mountain ranges 619 bridges 526 wells 429 houses 420 points 416 creeks 345 baronies 312 ecclesiastical sites 289 monuments 275 man-made features 242 strands 228 streams 227 promontories 225 enclosures 217 roads 215 crossroads 214 bays 205 graveyards, cemeteries, burial grounds 201 cliffs 179 valleys 176 villages 169 castles 164 woods 164 features 141 localities 115 holes 92 passes 90 historical names 90 harbours 78 bogs 73 patches of ground 57 quays, piers, wharves 54 fords 51 cairns 49 caves, souterrains 44 coombs 42 channels, sounds 34 waterfalls 32 counties 32 hamlets 31 estuaries 30 footpaths 30 standing stones 27 marshes 26 hollows 25 fissures 23 brows, slopes, hillsides 21 tombs 17 (sand) banks 17 reefs 16 dioceses 12 canals 12 sandhills 11 apartments 11 turloughs 69 other geographical units