About this website

Welcome to sráidainm.ie, the Streetnames Database of Ireland. This is a new website which makes the country’s official streetnames (i.e. names of roads, streets, estates, buildings, etc.) available to the public and to State officials. This website is administered by the Gaois research group, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU, under the direction of the Placenames Branch in the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht. It is a sister site to logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland, where you will find the country’s official administrative placenames (i.e. names of counties, districts, electoral divisions, centres of population, townlands, etc.), as well as names of geographical features and other minor placenames that are shown on Ordnance Survey (Tailte Éireann’s predecessor) maps.

Unlike the administrative placenames of the State, whose English versions are already established on the Ordnance Survey/Tailte Éireann 25ʺ maps and whose Irish versions are being validated on an ongoing basis in placenames orders under the Official Languages Act (see logainm.ie), it is the 31 local councils that are responsible for validating their own official placenames, both English-language and Irish-language, and making them available to the public.

Between 2004–08, 10 local councils collaborated with the Placenames Branch to establish and validate around 25 thousand Irish-language streetnames. These were added to logainm.ie in 2008. Between 2017–19, DCU collaborated with Tailte Éireann [OSi at the time] to add 13 thousand streets to logainm.ie that were missing from the database. Then, between 2023–25, DCU collaborated with the 31 local councils, with support from the Placenames Branch, to establish and validate Irish-language versions for these 13 thousand streetnames. This work is still ongoing and the results will be published on sráidainm.ie on an ongoing basis during 2025–26. The Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht [The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media at the time] funded DCU’s work under the Logainm project.

Now, having compiled a reasonably complete set of streets (38 thousand) with English-language and Irish-language names that have been validated by the local authorities, we have decided to make the streets available via a separate website with a view to making the division of function and responsibility clearer, i.e. logainm.ie = Irish-language versions of official administrative placenames (whether they have been validated by the Minister in placenames orders or recommended for official use by the Placenames Branch) vs sráidainm.ie = Irish-language versions of official streetnames (validated by the 31 local councils). Please note that there is no central national system in place for registering new streetnames, but we hope that such a system will be put in place soon and that it will be possible to include new streetnames in this database as they are established and validated.

In the meantime, DCU will be working on a secondary project (being funded by the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht) to obtain the geographic lines of the streets from OpenStreetMap and to add them to sráidainm.ie to improve the user experience. The first phase of this work can be seen on the website already in Fingal.