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This is a link page for cities, towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland, including townships or urban centres in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford and other major urban areas. Cities are shown in bold ; see City status in Ireland for an independent list.
Names of the town The first name listed is the commonest English name, and links to the relevant article. Alternative names are listed in parentheses. If the official name used in census reports is not the linked name, it is in italics. Only the name of the municipality is given, not that of any suburban areas (e.g. Tallaght is not named ...
However, some names come directly from the English language, and a handful come from Old Norse and Scots. The study of placenames in Ireland unveils features of the country's history and geography and the development of the Irish language. The name of Ireland itself comes from the Irish name Éire, added to the Germanic word land.
List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland This page was last edited on 22 June 2023, at 09:25 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.
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List of streets and squares in Dublin; List of Dublin bridges and tunnels; List of rivers in County Dublin, sortable list; Rivers Navbox; List of mountains and hills of County Dublin; Mountains Navbox; List of townlands of County Dublin, a sortable list with land area, barony, civil parish, and poor law union details
This is a list of the longest place names in Ireland. It includes names written in English as a single word of at least 20 letters. The vast majority of English-language place names in Ireland are anglicisations of Irish language names. The spelling which has legal force is usually that used by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland.