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The coast at Slea Head on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, with the Blasket Islands offshore.
An atlas of Irish places

Every place
has a story.

Discover Ireland through its names.
Explore the landscape, language and history
that connect us to a place.

Start somewhere: Corcaigh · Galway · Béal Feirste

70,586 places, each with a name32 counties across the islandPhoto: Slea Head · Einaz80 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · cropped
Find your corner of Ireland

Explore by county

From the familiar to the faraway. Begin with a county.

MonaghanLaoisRoscommonLeitrimDublinArmaghClareCavanKildareGalwayFermanaghLouthDonegalMayoSligoCorkWestmeathLongfordOffalyKerryTyroneMeathLimerickAntrimDownTipperaryWaterfordWexfordKilkennyCarlowDerryWicklow

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A few places to begin

Names worth exploring

A doorway into Ireland’s places and their stories.

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Read the landscape

A little language.
A deeper connection.

A place name can hold a trace of a woodland, a church, a river crossing or a family. Follow the evidence and a familiar landscape begins to reveal itself.

Discover Irish name elements
01

What’s in a place name?

Irish forms, English spellings and the limits of a literal translation.

02

Find the right townland

Use counties, parishes and neighbouring places to narrow the search.

03

Connect a place to your past

Take a place name from a family record into the landscape.